It's a hardware first AI inferencing platform built with 18 years of hosting infrastructure experience behind it. Always being updated.
cjflog 2 days ago [-]
I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which of my friends is free to talk right now?”
It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets rung at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. No missed-calls or pressure to answer. Works pretty well given most people keep their phones on silent (and there are in-app settings for quiet hours too).
It works best if you're able to join with at least four people you don't speak with as much as you'd like. I have a couple dozen connections on the app now, and it feels like magic to me. Would love feedback from both introverts and extroverts who still like phone calls, or wish they had more of them:
Very interesting. Part of my says that if it rung and I wasn't the first to answer, I would feel bad. At the same time, I like the idea of being able to reach out and just say "I feel like talking to someone". I would imagine that it is super interesting for people with depression or addiction who could add their support group too.
cjflog 1 days ago [-]
If you miss a Beacon and that makes you realize you want to chat with a friend, you can just send your own Beacon!
aliayaz112 9 hours ago [-]
Sounds fun and idea is interesting
cjflog 8 hours ago [-]
thanks, it is fun! I now spontaneously talk to friends 1-2 hours/week more than I did.
telesilla 1 days ago [-]
I'd love it if you can also fix the problem of timezones. So many of my friends are oceans-apart and we rarely rarely meet and talk as a group anymore. Maybe some kind of asynchronous option?
cjflog 1 days ago [-]
The idea is to just send a beacon whenever you're free and maybe you'll catch friends in the wildly different timezones from time to time.
I sometimes send beacons on morning commutes. Way too early for normal social calls but will sometimes catch people a few timezones east on a lunch break or something.
d1sxeyes 1 days ago [-]
You can’t really have an asynchronous phone call though…
tim-projects 1 days ago [-]
This makes me think of MSN,AOL or ICQ which had an online status and notification system.
Why did that go away with modern messaging? WhatsApp and signal don't have it. Sms? Not sure. I think Facebook messenger does.
I can remember this was an important feature that everyone actively used.
cjflog 1 days ago [-]
I think it went away because everyone became "online" all the time, but that also meant most communication transitioned to async
conrs 1 days ago [-]
This is an interesting idea. I'm building https://tend2thrive.com - I could see an interesting collaboration here. Always looking for ways to re-engage your network without it feeling heavy.
arthen23 7 hours ago [-]
this is truly interesting.
the question "I've met you, cool, I was waiting for you, and... now what?" is haunting me
I believe it can help
jasondigitized 1 days ago [-]
Curious what the stack looks like. Are you doing all the heavy lifting yourself with WebRTC or using something like LiveKit?
boaztheostrich 1 days ago [-]
Ooh this is such a cool idea.
gladlabs 1 days ago [-]
what if I don't answer quickly enough but do want to talk :(
yreg 1 days ago [-]
You fire off a new beacon.
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andrewrn 1 days ago [-]
Super neat concept. One super low-lift way to improve its reception: change the styling of the landing page to not be blatant AI slop.
user43928 1 days ago [-]
Disagree, it looks just fine.
cjflog 16 hours ago [-]
haha, thank you :)
Paarthmj 2 days ago [-]
love the idea, would love a messaging version
cjflog 16 hours ago [-]
Can you say more about what you mean by a messaging version?
ksaun 2 days ago [-]
I was an experienced game designer and producer (mostly RTS and narrative RPG). Some years ago, my career was derailed by major health developments. Since then, I haven't been able to work as I once did. I didn't expect I'd be able to meaningfully contribute to a game again.
Earlier this year, a colleague encouraged me to experiment with Claude Code. So now I have a little game project. :) Being unfamiliar with genAI, I chose something modest so that I'd more likely be able to push it to a fairly polished state.
Tentatively called Vestiges, it's a single player 2D roguelite strategy game with meta progression, some narrative, and a card minigame (the latter inspired by work I did on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II). It's set in the near future. You are using software (the game) to navigate a person's digitized mind, reading their memories.
I hope to have a playable demo within the next month or so.
phaser 2 days ago [-]
For all the bad rap that AI gets in game development, stories like this should be heard more. I occasionally get tendinitis and I can't code for the entire day like when I was young. I get some relief dictating to the AI when I need to rest my hands. I can imagine it's a much bigger help for someone who is struggling with worse.
andai 1 days ago [-]
I'd like to hear more about your experience using AI for game development.
I've had a strangely asymmetric experience where frontier models are failing apparently basic tasks like making changes to a Pong clone without breaking it, while the same models are successfully designing and implementing multiplayer servers with rollback netcode!
I think it has to do with what they can and cannot verify (i.e. they can't actually play pong to see if they broke it), but I'm not sure.
(Also happy to hear anyone else's experiences on this matter!)
ksaun 1 days ago [-]
Overall, I've been very pleased, though I have seen inconsistency like you mention.
First, some background: At the start, I used Sonnet, but after a couple weeks, I'd switched to mostly Opus. I've used Fable when available. For any significant new feature or work, I use /brainstorming (superpowers plug-in). For Vestiges, I haven't written any design documentation per se. I'll start off a /brainstorming with a hefty prompt, maybe 5-15 lines. Throughout the brainstorming steps, I'll think of additional ideas/details about the feature, etc. I'll just add the change/addition to my answer to whatever question it had asked and it seems to handle that fine.
Sometimes I catch things in the subsequent design review process and it handles new guidance well there, too. Typically, I've left some details underspecified and Claude fills in the gaps -- often quite well, but I have to pay attention. The details that it decides later in the process (the implementation steps) are often solid, but when they're not, it's easy to iteratively fix later. Most of the time when Claude asks for clarity on a detail, its recommended option is what I wanted.
It's been rare for Claude to do something that just didn't work (but it has happened occasionally). I have found that it's not good at imagining the player's perspective; it doesn't consider the player's cognitive load for UX considerations, for example. That seems to be consistent with your observation about what they can and cannot verify. A recent instance was when I added a tutorial (which was much more scripted than regular gameplay, providing a more specific experience); I ultimately had to get very directly involved to get to the quality I wanted.
Vestiges doesn't have any gameplay involving timing like Pong does. I could imagine that sort of gameplay being harder for it to get right.
(I hope that covers some of what you were seeking!)
arsenide 1 days ago [-]
I've been having a bunch of fun working on a couple games on a new platform - everything (platform and games) developed with AI.
quackwave.com
Hasn't really been stress tested yet (this is the first time I'm mentioning it publicly), but it's been fun playing with friends & family and iterating.
Party game platform, think "jackbox but no host screen" - just need a web browser open on phone/tablet/PC.
Your comment matches my experience: it has to do what can and cannot be verified. As an example, it was much easier to have AI write a large e2e test using Playwright (then add test cases and expand) than to assume it'll correctly fix bugs without guidelines like this. Also, the human loop is still important in things like screenshot verification - but the frontier models are getting even better here so I'm not sure for how much longer this will be true. The ratio of test code to production code is a bit over 2:1 right now.
andai 1 days ago [-]
I have an amusing update to report, I've checked one of the major new features that was added a few days ago. It turns out it was implemented backwards, and in a way which defeats the entire purpose.
Nevertheless, several thousand lines of test code were added, and all tests pass!
I found this particularly amusing because, I've been obsessed with correctness and verification lately, thinking about rewriting the game in Rust, and adding formal verification to the game.
What I realized here is that, this wouldn't have helped at all. The AI would have just written the wrong code in Rust, and then written a mathematical proof that the wrong code is correct...
arsenide 1 days ago [-]
Agree. The tests are great! Playtesting reveals that gameplay breaks my assumptions on how the system should work. Where to go from here?
Telling AI to "do TDD" is a shortcut that gets me over 80% there by itself in aggregate with little effort. The last 20% is painful. More painful than the usual "last 20%" in game design and development. I think this is part of the human vs. LLM gap.
If you revert the code to before the feature was implemented, then called out the way not to do it (the failed version you're describing) - what would happen? Maybe that "80% there" turns into "90% there", or maybe it's a bit better. Or maybe a bit worse. Working with LLMs vs. humans, does the gap shrink further if you gave other people the same requirements you gave the LLM? I think it depends on who you're working with - other people have their own opinions and don't necessarily just do exactly what they're told without taking their experiences into account.
In a way I see it like playing a game of telephone. I have my understanding of the system, I translate it into words, the LLM interprets it and does what it does based on that. For some reason, it feels like this is a telephone game with 3 people: A to B to C where the translation layer of my thoughts into words is an inserted "B". In contrast, if instead I'm expressing my thoughts to another person it's A to B. This extra connection here is lossy in the same way a game of telephone is lossy from player A to player C.
guiambros 2 days ago [-]
Big fan of SW:KOTOR series. Would love to test Vestiges when ready.
You should consider creating the game on Steam, so you can start building your audience.
ksaun 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! I've been hesitant about Steam because of the strong anti-genAI sentiments there. (And the initial fee to set-up a game's page.) You are right, though, and I probably should just push past my reservations.
(When I began this effort, I was just enjoying feeling productive again and didn't have any real plan to release. But I've been pleased enough with how it's been coming along that I've started seriously thinking about it.)
mh- 2 days ago [-]
The anti-AI crowd on Steam only really seems to care about it being used for art, from what I've seen in reviews.
ogig 2 days ago [-]
I'd also include the UI in things they seem to care about. If it looks "web style" or has the common tells (dashes, //) it will be most likely be called out.
ksaun 2 days ago [-]
(Early on, one requirement I gave it was not to use em-dashes for anything player-facing. It's kind of amusing (and a bit sad) at how often I see in its session self-talk something like "No em-dashes!" alongside much more important comments. It's really taken that constraint to heart! :) (Alas, I liked to use em-dashes myself, too; I'm resisting giving up semi-colons and parentheses, though!)
Fortunately, I personally enjoy writing. Currently, I wouldn't be able to claim that Claude didn't contribute to the writing, but nothing in Vestiges should sound like genAI. (Which is actually a little funny to me since one of the characters is an AI. But the genAI writing style grates on many, including myself, and I'd imagine that 20+ years into the future, such issues will have been solved.)
ksaun 2 days ago [-]
That's useful context, thanks. I might be in a grey area on that front. Vestiges has no genAI-created images, textures, etc. Pretty much all of the (non-text) visuals are generated at runtime using Godot's 2D vector drawing capabilities.
(I've considered trying to find an artist to work with to have professional 2D art.)
zahlman 1 days ago [-]
Glad to hear. I could say I'm in a similar position actually, but my setbacks have been more psychological.
zandermax 2 days ago [-]
I am also interested in trying this game out! And I'm really glad to hear how agentic coding got you back in the game (literally)!
marknutter 2 days ago [-]
This an inspirational comment, thanks for posting it! I love that more and more people are being enabled (or re-enabled in your case) as software developers thanks to ai.
spariev 2 days ago [-]
That’s just pure pazaak! Would totally like to see this game
ksaun 2 days ago [-]
Yes, the minigame is like Pazaak. I've prototyped two more radical variants that might also make the cut.
selimthegrim 1 days ago [-]
I would like to play this demo when it comes out.
FunHearing3443 2 days ago [-]
I'd be interested in the demo!!
ttrashh 2 days ago [-]
I'd love to try it out too.
fuckyah 2 days ago [-]
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mihau 15 minutes ago [-]
Working on Window Hints - keyboard-first window switching (macOS for now)
Does it detects multiple same app windows as different ? like if you have 2 chrome windows
mihau 7 minutes ago [-]
Yes, if you have 3 Chrome windows, it will show you visual hints for all of them separately
BrunoBernardino 2 days ago [-]
My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU.
Last month we reached 200 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 250 now), and last week we launched support for XMR/Monero payments via ProxyStore [2]!
You can also see in our homepage that more independent bloggers and privacy-minded people have written about us!
The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL,into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!
Uruky is paid and you can get a free 2h trial when you signup if you pass a proof-of-work captcha (another suggestion made here on HN, and it uses a local Altcha).
Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications. This month was Caddy [3]!
Feature-wise, for July we’ve already shipped a lot of visible and less visible things. We’re currently looking into increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web, and plan to add a couple of new search providers in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you for your kindness!
[NO-AI]: There is no generative AI product or service, here.
It looks good, but one of the big selling points to me with Kagi is them having their own index. It seems like you guys are working on that, but right now it sounds more like a search aggregator rather than a search engine.
You also mention not using the source for commercial use or distribution, is that only relevant before it becomes AGPL?
I am also struggling to find how to activate the 2h trial, so have not been able to test it out.
BrunoBernardino 2 days ago [-]
Thank you for your comments!
We have an index, it's just not very big, yet. We had a major setback last month with a bug (for less than 24h, the crawler didn't respect robots.txt) and had to delete it entirely, and have been slowly rebuilding it.
You're correct the commercial use is only not allowed before the AGPL comes into play.
You should be able to click on the "top up" link (top or bottom) and see an option for a captcha ("click to prove you're a human"). If you don't, reach out via email (don't share your account number) and I'll give you a voucher for a couple of days.
andai 1 days ago [-]
Interesting. How much does it cost to build a search index in current year? Also, how do you get around the fact that everyone's blocking bots?
I've been thinking of making a "small web" indexer so I'm curious about that. I'm seeing even tiny websites being behind CloudFlare, Anubis etc. these days. (And everyone complaining they're getting hammered by mysterious distributed HTTP traffic!)
BrunoBernardino 1 days ago [-]
Most of the cost is storage (database, indexes) and memory (RAM, search), and most of the risk is crawlers (they fail, they're reported as abuse, etc.).
You can look for Common Crawl or Open Web Index for dataset sizes and how many URLs those include to get a sense of baseline storage costs, and then 2x that for minimum usability.
It's honestly a bit tough to accept that we got a report of abuse and are still dealing with the aftermath of that after having a single crawler go haywire for a few hours (because we play nice and identify ourselves properly), but these... "mysterious" bots that keep hitting all the servers everywhere thousands of times per day just go on like nothing's happening and "no one"'s to blame.
JK-Swizzle 1 days ago [-]
I have been working on an indexer for myself using data from common crawl. They do all the leg work and just host the outcome.
BrunoBernardino 1 days ago [-]
Common Crawl is a really cool project! We're looking to implement a similar EU-based version: https://openwebindex.eu
JK-Swizzle 1 days ago [-]
That’s on me, didn’t see the text explaining it above the captcha.
I’ll give it a shot. Always happy to see some competition in the market. And I love the idea of handing out the source after a year.
BrunoBernardino 1 days ago [-]
Thanks, please reach out via email if you run into any trouble or have any questions/suggestions!
andai 1 days ago [-]
Nice, cool project.
Is Monero legal in EU? I heard something about them banning private cryptos including Monero a while back but I don't know what the situation is now. (I think it might just be that exchanges are not allowed to offer it anymore?)
BrunoBernardino 1 days ago [-]
Thanks, and great question! I'm not sure about the whole EU, but in Portugal (where our company's based, and where we've talked with a couple of lawyers and accountants about it), you can hold, buy/sell and trade Monero, but not convert it to fiat. That's why we don't support it directly.
With our ProxyStore partnership, they're handling the crypto payments, we only invoice them for fiat and they pay us in fiat!
helloakariq 2 days ago [-]
Very cool! How long have you been working on this? How did you acquire your customers?
BrunoBernardino 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! We've been working on it since late last year, only really announced it here in February or March, I think (I'd have to check). Cold emailing some privacy-minded folks and posting here and in other privacy-focused forums like Privacy Guides (that were recommended to us after cold emailing people).
agumonkey 2 days ago [-]
Did you work in this space before ?
interesting project, good luck
BrunoBernardino 2 days ago [-]
Not public-facing search engines, but internal ones and privacy-focused software, yes. Thanks!
phaser 2 days ago [-]
I love the idea. How do you stay competitive with the search results of, let's say, DDG? have you considered enabling an API for subscribers? Or selling an enterprise tier subsctription that comes with API?
BrunoBernardino 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! We offer many search providers, so we're not tied to any specific style of results, and our customers tend to really appreciate that!
Also, we do offer an API (check the FAQ), no need for different subscription tiers. Keeping it simple.
redwood 2 days ago [-]
As someone unfamiliar with Kagi I encourage you not to describe yourself as a Kagi alternative but instead start with what you are doing first and foremost
kmoser 2 days ago [-]
Especially because some of us used Kagi back when it was an e-commerce payment processor, and that's what comes to mind whenever I see the name.
BrunoBernardino 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! Do you mean on this HN thread? On the website we do this:
> PRIVATE SEARCH YOU CONTROL
> Search without ads or tracking
> Uruky is a private search engine focused on personalization, not an ecosystem.
> EU-based. No surveillance capitalism.
robrenaud 2 days ago [-]
How do you get personalization without surveillance?
BrunoBernardino 2 days ago [-]
This is my bad. We've heard a few people complain that the word "personalization" has been adopted by the ad industry and it makes people shiver when reading it. In our case it means "personal search customization", meaning you can customize the experience as you prefer (UI, domain rewrites, search providers, boosts, etc.). We don't log or track any search queries. I've fixed this in a couple of places but it seems I missed some others, so I'll be fixing it promptly.
Meanwhile, I hope that answers your question? Let me know if you'd like some further clarification.
redwood 2 days ago [-]
Cool thanks. I meant here and just generally dropped the comment as advice in case you might slip into talking that way as if all of your target market are already familiar with this other Niche thing. When there's so many people out there who never heard of either anf might be open to suggestions
BrunoBernardino 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! I'll experiment with that next month, then!
carlosjobim 2 days ago [-]
Why do you call it a Kagi alternative and not a Google alternative?
BrunoBernardino 1 days ago [-]
That's a good point. Mainly because of the personal search customization features, and the fact it's paid search. Those seem differentiating enough from Google and close enough to Kagi to use them as a reference instead. They're also a good product if you're happy with them, and I don't know many people that are _happy_ with Google, most are probably just _accepting_ of it, if that makes sense.
wwalker2112 2 days ago [-]
A newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc...
I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.
I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.
wonger_ 2 days ago [-]
Neat, I'm also planning a lil newspaper hobby project. I'm curious:
- what paper size are you going to use? Like full broadsheet size or zine size?
- and how many pages of content do you think you'll have, given that size?
- black and white, or color?
- where will you get all your content? Designing puzzles, experiments etc seems like it would take a long time
- do you recommend any printeries?
- anywhere we can follow your progress? I'd be super excited to see a first mockup
FWIW, as a web guy, I'm leaning towards designing my content in HTML + CSS and exporting to PDF at a certain page size, probably using playwright.
wwalker2112 2 days ago [-]
I'm in the process of figuring out fulfillment and shipping right now. I just got some samples from https://www.newspaperclub.com/ and they were pretty impressive. My other option is a local printing shop in my town. I'm visiting them later this week so we will see.
It will be in color. Broadsheet (350mmx500mm). 12 pages. Color.
I've been designing puzzles, etc.. myself. Using claude and chatgpt to brainstorm fun games/expirements/etc...
I don't have the site up yet. Waiting to get the first batch so I have some IRL images to add to the site.
I was looking for a old school newspaper style that is focused on games, puzzles, math, and outdoor activities. At least that is what I'm going for.
Loughla 2 days ago [-]
I wish ranger Rick existed for teens though. My kids loved that when they were smaller, but now we have to spend a shit ton of effort to find teen appropriate content of a similar nature (hah!).
renyicircle 1 days ago [-]
Compared to the usual tools for the tools for the tools to help you program programming tools, this is a pretty good thing to have more of
moralestapia 2 days ago [-]
Leave the guy alone.
I wish there were 1,000s more of those!
ryanisnan 1 days ago [-]
Amazing, do you have some example images of what the product looks like?
I don't have payment setup yet. Just a waitlist :)
idopmstuff 2 days ago [-]
I heard an episode of the Odd Lots podcast about HayWire (haywireag.com), a site that pulls public data from government PDFs + APIs, uses LLMs to parse it and turns it into an easily readable website that has all of the latest info on hay prices.
The host made an offhand mention that there's probably a bunch of other similar sites that could be created with all the of useful but difficult-to-access government data out there. That sounded interesting, so I thought I'd give it a whirl!
All pretty fascinating topics to learn about, plus it's been interesting to see how much of the website setup I can fully delegate to Claude. With Cloudflare to buy domains and put the sites up, a Google Service Account with access to Google Search Console and GA4 to create those properties and a Buttondown API key for weekly email sending, it's almost all hands off for me. Though it refuses to take control of the browser and create a new Buttondown account, which I was surprised is a red line.
ycombinatornews 2 days ago [-]
Love this! Waterline still seemed cryptic but the scramble was a fun read. I am not following neither of these niches so just a passerby opinion!
idopmstuff 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! I am definitely not an expert in either, and I've run the content by both Fable and GPT-5.6 with instructions to make sure it's written in such a way that it would read normally to people in the industry. They assure me the wording makes sense in that context, but we'll see if the sites actually get traction or not.
tych0 2 days ago [-]
I live in the southwest, didn't realize this data was available, so thank you. It would be super interesting to have a (heat) map of it all.
idopmstuff 1 days ago [-]
Ah, that is a fantastic idea, it's on my to do list.
maxibenner 2 days ago [-]
Not an email newsletter service but a contact form. I recently added the ability for LLMs to sign up to my service https://www.simplecontactform.org autonomously via API. Curious to hear your experience if you can ever make use of something like it.
Foffle 2 days ago [-]
An automated, full garment knitting machine that can fit on a desk.
There are only a few knitting machines that can automatically do everything required to knit a complete garment, and they are large, heavy and extremely expensive. I'm aiming to trade off speed against size and cost to create something akin to a 3D printer for knitwear.
I've been testing out various ideas for six months now, and I think I have a workable concept, but there's still a lot of work to do!
ivandenysov 1 days ago [-]
I’d love to crowdfund this.
I’ve been on a hunt for a perfect blank t shirt. After trying 10 different models either the fit or the material is not up to my standard.
I wonder how automatable manufacturing of T-Shirts is. Not sure if it is possible to automate sewing on a collar for example. Plus from what I’ve read a tubular t shirt is worse than front and back sewed at the sides cause it tends to stretch and rotate in one direction with time.
Anyway: continuous knitting is more automatable but introduces limitations just like injection moulding does. But the benefit of having a perfect fit might outweigh those limitations.
What’s your take on all of this?
lemonberry 1 days ago [-]
This does sound incredible. If there's anywhere to follow your progress please let us know.
blaufast 2 days ago [-]
This is exciting, please post updates somewhere!
motohagiography 1 days ago [-]
the impact of this would be significant. You should check out Issey Miyake's "A Piece of Cloth" (Issey Miyake: A-POC and 132 5) collection, which was clothing based on a single piece of fabric. It's old, like 1999 era, but the concept has come up a few times since.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/100361 is a start, but there are other examples. Rei Kawakubo also did a collection called Square based on a similar concept. Yoji Yamamoto did a couple as well, there were a few moments in Japanese fashion that would work extremely well with a full garment knitter.
These pictures are the top level concepts, but the rest of the collections if you can still find them have more examples.
1. Translating 1000s of NeoLatin, Chinese and Sanskrit books for the first time
At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc. There are a lot of beautiful books to look at — and you can use it with Claude code. API keys available: https://SourceLibrary.org/developers.
2. Replicating the design patterns of contemporary AI services
I’ve created a web app, desktop application and API for organizations needing European hardware and data protections. It’s a nice interface on top of Scaleway in France, so low carbon too. See https://makemode.eu
Support, feedback or even participation on these projects is very welcome.
hnfong 2 days ago [-]
> At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc.
Wow, this is like... exactly(?) what I needed? (and since this is on topic for this discussion... What am I working on? Learning and writing about metaphysics and magic.)
This is wonderful stuff.
The web UI didn't vibe with me too well though. The only thing I saw on the first page was "Your email address or continue with Google". I mean, reading the books apparently do not require my email address or logging in, but I figured out much later only due to the fact that I really wanted to see the contents. (I'd imagine if somebody was only marginally interested they might have been scared away by the "give us your email address" thingy.)
Also, when reading the book contents, the browser back button didn't work for me. Felt a bit clunky for some reason. Couldn't put my finger on any specific issue other than the back button, but somehow didn't feel smooth. (I'm not a web frontend dev, so this is just my personal feeling.)
All that said, this is a wonderful resource.
dr_dshiv 2 days ago [-]
Nice. I’ll look into the back button. Would love any more specific feedback (feedback button on every page).
If you have a minute, check out the Librarian in the menu. Give it your research questions. It’s a pretty powerful research agent!
neomantra 1 days ago [-]
neb pointed me to SourceLibrary last month! Congrats on this work, it is very cool and very important -- a great example of AI helping humans.
It is a vast and beautiful collection that I spent hours checking out all sorts of documents, especially the Occult and Alchemy.
thekaranchawla 2 days ago [-]
this is incredibly cool
adim86 2 days ago [-]
I am working on Sidequests HQ:
SideQuests HQ is a mobile app that turns real life into a series of small, optional quests.
The idea came from noticing that most productivity apps optimize for work, and most social media optimizes for consumption. There aren’t many tools that encourage you to actually do interesting things in the real world.
The app generates challenges across categories like meeting new people, exploring your city, learning something new, creating, or helping someone else. Complete a quest, skip it, or save it for later.You can also add your own quests. There’s no streak anxiety, no leaderboard. The app is just quests designed to make life a little less repetitive.
Possibly related/tangental, my friends and I in high school were pretty big into the car culture of the time (90s Houston = fast and furious). Anywho, as a complement of the normal (illegal) drag race and burnout meetups we used to organize and run full city scavenger hunts. We’d run around town collecting clues, solving puzzles, and driving pretty reckless. It usually involved at least 2 people per car to be competitive. Knowledge of the greater area was important for navigating because this was right around the transition where GPS became common. We usually did it around 2am-4am so the streets were open and we could drive fast. It wasn’t safe at all but luckily nobody I know of ever got in an accident. We had about 100 cars participating when I left for college in 98. I think about it as something that was very special and the last of the fun analog lifestyle before the internet took over.
elictronic 2 days ago [-]
I really like this idea but don’t like your tagline on the Apple Store. Life’s better with cheat codes is wrong. Cheat codes make games easier and less fulfilling, your app is the opposite of that based on what you’ve said.
Life’s better when you find the way.
Be the friend with the hare brained idea.
rf-monitor 2 days ago [-]
I'm building an RF monitoring system.
It can tell you things like:
- The car that parked nearby last night coincided with "Chad's Galaxy Buds" with MAC address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. The buds also drove by briefly the previous night.
- Alert on sudden cross-specturm interference (e.g. burglars using a cheap jammer to knock out WiFi cameras).
- Alert on known device contact loss (powered off / left premises).
- Review device movement across a campus/neighborhood (using multiple RF pods).
I have a working PoC. It can run on a low-power computer (e.g. RPi) supporting multiple RF sensors (BT/BLE/WiFi). Has a web UI. Can publish events to an external security system. Currently working on an LLM interface to make it easy for a non-technical operator to set policies and ask questions.
Could be sold as an appliance system or a license for a DIY build.
Angel investors are welcome to contact rf-monitor@tuta.com
Hasz 2 days ago [-]
Here's an idea for you -- property evaluation. It's not hyper-specific to your monitoring system, but it would be very interesting to understand before buying a house:
1. How loud the neighbhorhood is over time periods, eg sat night vs tues morning
2. air quality, enviromental factors, etc.
3. What percentage of vehicles/people/devices are net-new (over a time period) versus recoccuring, as identified by MAC.
I would personally pay in the low hundreds to understand overall loudness levels for a house I am about to buy, although I am fairly sensitive to sound. My wife would probably pay for the new-new people metrics.
IMO, you could charge a per-device report and deploy a unit for a week, much like a home inspector report. It would give you a revenue stream on the buy or sell side, and let you own your devices as you iterate on the sensor package.
Anyways, just my 2c, gl with your PoC.
hephaes7us 1 days ago [-]
Very cool. Do you happen to have any kind of mailing list, blog, etc?
rf-monitor 1 days ago [-]
Not until I have an MVP. But I'm happy to answer emails.
wewewedxfgdf 1 days ago [-]
Device manufacturers go to a great deal of effort to ensure their devices cannot be identified this way. I'm certain SOME don't have such protection but I would think many do.
Can you say exactly what you can detect with this?
rf-monitor 17 hours ago [-]
When it comes to smartphones, you are mostly correct.
When it comes to peripherals (earbuds, dashcams, car audio, etc), it's a totally different story. For user convenience these devices happily broadcast useful names, manufacturer data, etc.
blaufast 2 days ago [-]
Could this be used to identify masked ICE agents?
rf-monitor 2 days ago [-]
And Santa too.
ImPostingOnHN 1 days ago [-]
most phones these days randomize bt-le mac address every few minutes
archarios 1 days ago [-]
What are you hoping this tool will do for the world?
rf-monitor 17 hours ago [-]
I hope it shifts a little power back to the people trying to protect a business or a household.
chadbuds 1 days ago [-]
So you collect PII in a public space and use correlations to deanonymize, link and collect further PII. A GDPRinator 9000.
rf-monitor 1 days ago [-]
I'm not making early legal judgements. Feature pruning can happen later per client jurisdiction.
But in common sense terms, the privacy implications will be no different than virtually every outdoor security camera you pass by fifty times a day.
marginalia_nu 2 days ago [-]
I've been migrating marginalia search off docker-compose and onto systemd.
Between NUMA-concerns and the need to use multiple public IPs, I'm coaxed into a pretty exotic setup no matter what I choose to go with. Was pretty finnicky to set up, but it seems to work pretty well all said and done. Systemd is certainly feeling less floaty than docker (and even moreso kubernetes, which was never an option).
I also shaved like 10ms off response times since I no longer need an additional reverse proxy to deal with docker's networking magic, and can point nginx straight to the network namespaced services' IPs.
This in service of sequestering all wide domains (as in having tens of thousands of subdomains) to their separate crawler and index partition, as their (per top-domain) rate limits are part of why crawls take so long for the main crawler. Couldn't do that on docker because its ipvlan management is so jank you need spare IPs to reliably restart services.
ricohageman 2 days ago [-]
My city caps how many shared scooters and bikes each operator may put on the street, and how long a vehicle may sit unused. In 2024, an activist group did a one-off analysis on the problem (they found ~1.5x more scooters than permitted) based on an open GBFS data-feed that shows where scooters and bikes currently are. The municipality confirmed the data but called the situation "not undesirable."
The site, https://deelmobiliteitdelft.nl, logs the availability of every shared vehicle inside the city boundary. This allows me to do interesting analysis. For example, one operator has been above its vehicle limit 80% of the time. Another has a third of its fleet standing untouched for over three days.
It's the same idea as my previous project (http://parkeergaragesdelft.nl) where we do have live data but nobody keeps a record causing the public debate to run on anecdotes.
Site's in Dutch, charts should speak for themselves.
jorisw 2 days ago [-]
Any reason you wouldn't expand this to cover other cities as well?
ricohageman 2 days ago [-]
The GBFS feeds are national, so expanding to other cities would be technically possible. But I think the value comes from knowing the local context well enough to know which numbers matter, and from following up with your local government. That said, if someone wants to dig up the permit conditions for their own city and build a similar project, I'm happy to assist.
This also exceeds the supposed 600 max per service provider. That said I'm not sure I'd have time to maintain a derivative site.
I agree that the follow up with the legislator is what makes this interesting. I'd even suggest making sharing that correspondence on your site a feature. Your outgoing link on the site to the regional press doesn't quite seem to cover that.
tda 2 days ago [-]
Nice use of civic tech! Have you ever showed this to open state foundation? https://openstate.eu/
chegra 2 days ago [-]
Just finished Veritas - Truth Across Cultures[1]. The idea is that many different cultures have written sayings that are basically the same. Similar to how one would give more credence to more than one person saying the same thing, the same is true for cultures. So, this is like my catalogue of what diverse cultures agree on. I have been promoting this book. [2][3]
Interesting concept. I would like to read this in an epub file outside of amazon if you're willing to accept outside payment.
chegra 2 days ago [-]
Hey... Thanks for the interest, but right now, it is being offered exclusively on Amazon as it is a part of the KDP Select programme.
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shofetim 2 days ago [-]
I am building a cloud hosting company that exposes the cloud as a single docker host. No VMs to manage, just containers and easy controls to set the number of CPUs, RAM, disk that you want your containers to have access to.
Joyent did something like this ~11 years go, and I loved using it, but then they where acquired by Samsung and shut down their public (non-enterprise) offering.
This is try 3 at building something as good, and it is working!
Made a talking head with some idle animation and visemes and some broken crt-like effects. The meat of it is only a few hundred kB - i can probably make it even smaller with making the graphics smaller.
A bit of post processing on some narration for extracting mouth shapes and it seems to work quite nice as a low-footprint retro talking head. Im thinking i'll make it some kind of chatbot interface.
Its very much a WIP, please don't be too critical - i am only sharing because it is fun :)
mgranados 2 days ago [-]
really like it! intuitively knowing i had to turn it on was very cool
gregalbritton 2 days ago [-]
Love the pseudo-tactile approach.
Very fresh and almost calming :)
helloakariq 2 days ago [-]
I am continuing to work on Akariq [0] which provides travel eSIM data plans to 180+ countries around the world. I have had many paying customers over the past few months from Vietnam to Mexico to Europe and US of course. The three benefits of using Akariq are
1) No app, no user account which leads to literally 3-click install
2) Full transparency - you know what you are getting. A lot of other eSIM providers hide details like unlimited plan speed caps etc
3) I connect to the best network available in the country. For example, someone like Airalo would connect to VTC in Vietnam, I offer Viettel which is the undisputed local network king.
And obviously, I am 2-3x cheaper than Airalo and the big players.
How do you judge "the best" network? It normally depends on if you're in the city, countryside, island etc.
I travel fulltime and constantly buy new esims. Normally I just go on esimdb and buy the cheapest one. Then when I get to the location I'm staying at, I chat with folks to figure which network works best there. Normally it's cheaper to get a local plan as well.
You are quite a bit more expensive than the no-name folks I buy from.
As far as best network goes, yes it depends in the city etc but there are always best networks for 99% locations in a country. I gave an example in another comment of Viettel vs VTC in Vietnam and Zain vs STC in Saudi Arabia.
I mean obviously it's cheaper to buy local plans. You can't compare local plans to travel eSIMs.
Which locations are you traveling to? Generally, I have the best quality to price ratio for North America, Europe, South East Asia, China and Japan. I saw your comment history and you visited Japan. The cheapest eSIM on eSIMDB in Japan for 5GB shows $2.42 via eSIM DOG [0]. But ... that's for a breakout IP in Hong Kong. That introduces latency on your network. So lets you want to move to a Japan IP, eSIM DOG doesn't have one. Their most expensive option is $7.49 which is a 3x price increase and that comes with a UK breakout IP. Now, contrast that to Akariq where you get 5GB for $4.86 and a Japan IP + NTT Docomo network [1] which has the best coverage and reliability. So yeah, I am generally the cheapest in at least those 4 regions for the quality I provide. I sell the best possible option option in that country and avoid selling junk eSIM plans.
I mostly travel around Africa & Asia (east, south east, central). Yeah, I used esim.dog with the HK break out IP and it was fine.
I guess my usage falls into two categories:
1. I have reliable wifi, and don't need to use mobile data for work
2. I don't have reliable wifi and I have to use mobile data for work.
If I'm in situation 1, then I don't really care too much. The cheapest junk esim works. If I'm in situation 2, I need a large amount of data and need a local plan.
I've saved your site though, never know what situation might come up. I don't know how esimdb chooses who to index, but I would try to get on there (I'm assuming it's free?).
I've spoken to quite a few travelers and they mostly fall into two groups. Those that use airlo or some other big provider or they use esim comparison sites to get the cheapest offer.
helloakariq 23 hours ago [-]
Thanks, definitely give it a try at least in South East and China, Japan and HongKong. Africa isn't my strongest market yet.
eSIMDB is not free, their commission is quite high. So someone is paying somewhere for customer acquisition.
doix 21 hours ago [-]
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KomoD 2 days ago [-]
> You can't compare local plans to travel eSIMs.
Why not?
And who do you resell?
dizhn 18 hours ago [-]
I just bought a korea + japan plan mobimatter. Seems cheaper.
anonzzzies 2 days ago [-]
I like but for many of my regular destinations you are still 2-3x more expensive than what I can trivially find myself, especially longer visiting times and more data.
helloakariq 2 days ago [-]
Thank You! Can you please tell me your destinations?
I plan to make the higher volume data plans cheaper very soon. I'm happy to provide you temporary code to make it cheaper for longer visits you have soonish. Can you e-mail me at `hello@akariq.com`? I don't see an e-mail on your profile.
The one thing I want to add is that cheaper also depends on quality. So for example, if you look at Vietnam - I may not be cheaper than Airalo. But ... a big but, I offer network on Viettel while Airalo does on VTC. So, I am cheaper for what you get for the quality. In addition, I don't route data via HongKong or China to make it cheap. I have in country / region networks for like 87 countries and I keep improving [0]. Very few providers on the market can guarantee that.
I can confirm that you are completely right about Vietnam mobile networks. I could only reliably work after getting a real viettel sim. Even viettel branded stores sell some bootleg sim to tourists that work terribly.
The problem with eSIM is that usually there is no way to judge the quality until you buy one, so people sort by price and choose the cheapest. If your solution offers the best network in the country then I’m interested, because even at x2 or x3 price it doesn’t matter much compared to the other expenses when traveling.
Not sure how you can convince customers outside the hn bubble.
helloakariq 2 days ago [-]
And it's not just Vietnam. It's the same problem thoughout the world. Let me take an example like Saudi Arabia. Airalo connects to Zain and my service connects to STC. There are many such examples.
You are right people do go for the easy thing as there's too much decisions to make. I wonder how I can make it even more explicit on my website than it is now.
Please do try my service and leave a review on Trustpilot. I have a few reviews today but far more people have used my service and have been happy with it.
Fine, but that's true of several of the segment leaders as well (Saily, Airalo, etc). A lot of people don't want the hassle of physically walking into a shop in a foreign country, or just don't care about $5 vs $15 expense on a $5000 vacation.
coderatlarge 2 days ago [-]
do you offer non gfw esim for china?
helloakariq 2 days ago [-]
All my China eSIMs are non GFW eSIMS. You can also use a Hotspot to tether to your laptop etc. They breakout via HK. Try them out and if you have any issues send me an e-mail.
coderatlarge 2 days ago [-]
can i provision from within china or do i have to do it before i go there?
helloakariq 1 days ago [-]
My website is available in China so you can provision it from China. Of course, your phone should support eSIM. I have had quite a few people use my service in China. I am happy to give you a trial - write to me hello@akariq.com
jakevoytko 2 days ago [-]
My side project is now codebase explainability. I basically don't buy the premise that we just have to give up on comprehension as code generation scales; I just think that text is too limited by itself. So going a step deeper than asking Claudex "teach me this project", but having it produce a navigable snapshot of what's going on.
Big bang prototypes have been pretty awful, even after feeding the LLMs huge documents / wishlists / descriptions of how it should work, etc. Part of the experiment was giving LLMs some leeway to make product decisions with a lot of north star guidance, but AFAICT they are really bad at this. I also tried basic bottom-up efforts, which have been better but obviously more tedious. Now I'm trying to find a more scalable bottom-up approach that is more LLM-accelerated
But maybe you should checkout the tools it’s based on, sem - https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem and ultimately treesitter. They at least give a more structured approach to dealing with code than simple text.
jakevoytko 2 days ago [-]
This is great stuff; I've been prototyping with a few language-specific parsers like the Golang and the polyglot approach looks really helpful for me
boron1006 2 days ago [-]
Yeah I hope the links are helpful
herval 2 days ago [-]
Any promising techniques so far? I’m working on a rather large monorepo and very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it. Looking for ideas to improve comprehension.
At the moment I'd check the sibling comment, which has a few links!
DANmode 2 days ago [-]
Forgive me if this is naive, I haven’t been in DevOps my whole career:
doesn’t
> very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it
mean a monorepo is a mistake worth unwinding immediately?
maxgaudin 2 days ago [-]
Follow the money at the local and state level. Every since followthemoney.org was absorbed by Open Secrets in 2024 we don't have a state level "follow the money" tool. BackerBase brings campaign finance data, public filings, donor networks, races, officials, and entity relationships into one source-backed workspace. Starting with Louisiana and adding more states now :)
I ported a decades-old piece of scientific software (Delft3D — Deltares' Fortran hydrodynamics engine) to run natively on Apple Silicon. From my phone, mostly, because I could (and because AI could). Runs pretty decently on a Mac Studio M3 now.
It was officially Intel-compiler + Windows/Linux only; the port gets it building with gfortran on macOS/arm64, PETSc+MPI solver and all. Fable and GPT-5.6 chewed through the compiler warnings, dependency hell, and portability bugs largely on their own. 30 or so bugs uncovered and fixed along the way, several of them real and platform-independent.
I'm not a C or Fortran dev. Mostly I argued with the agents about benchmarking methodology and told them to re-measure when the numbers looked off. The rest was up to them. Still amazed about this AI thing going on
I installed Claude Code on the Mac Studio, and gave it access over ssh to a Linux box. I instructed Claude to first compile on Linux, create reference artefacts, and only then start the work on mac. And then to make sure the Linux version still would compile with the changes made to the compiler toolchain, the Mac specific instructions etc.
I told Fable to make a nice plan, and fan out work to opus and sonnet agents. I then enabled remote connections and checked every few hours from my phone and nudged it in the right directions where needed. Have some push back once in a while. And once done I asked it to make a nice commit history and remove all the dead ends.
My goal is to capture the satisfying feeling of sawing & chiselling wood and hammering its parts (jointing) into an usable object.
Now sawing mechanic is done, chiseling shouldn't be a problem. Jointing will be hard.
The techs: Rust, raylib, JoltPhysics. I don't use engines to avoid answering "how to do X in Y" questions while I even don't know how to do X yet. But now I'm considering migrating to bevy to not have to implement (good) shadow, lighting, ... from scratch.
Btw I use no AI except for brainstorming and well-defined & isolated functions. I want to control all my codes instead of begging the LLM model.
jagged-chisel 2 days ago [-]
I'm creating a "spy mission" for my granddaughter. Using an Axiometa Genesis Mini with some modules for gating access. Real-world challenges, enter results into the Genesis, get directions to the next challenge.
I am trying to involve family members' specialties and interests so she can elicit help from each person: entomology, mechanical engineering, etc.
All that for her to discover the Secret Planned Activity the following day (visiting a theme park.)
bbkane 2 days ago [-]
Is the final reveal a link to this comment?
dicey 2 days ago [-]
I'm attempting to build a coffee bean distributor that can exactly measure out beans into a cup for my morning espresso.
It's really an excuse to get started with things like hardware, 3D printing, and embedded development - I've never done anything in that world before, and its been really exciting to get into! I've just started, so hopefully I'll have a better update next month.
HPsquared 2 days ago [-]
Counting the beans, or by weight? (Or I suppose you could 3D scan each bean as it goes past to measure volume for extra credit)
dicey 2 days ago [-]
I won't be getting extra credit! My plan right now is to go by weight, and my first attempt is going to have beans in a hopper, moved by an auger that slows down as it approaches the target weight ( ideally moving a bean at a time at the end, to get within a bean of the goal (ideally).
david927 2 days ago [-]
That sounds fun! Very cool project.
DANmode 2 days ago [-]
By weight, or by bean? heh
hephaes7us 1 days ago [-]
I've started playing with Zork-Bench.[1] I've been making tweaks to the runtime/harness and to the prompting. Currently, I have Qwen3.6-27b scoring up to ~50 points, which, according to the original paper [2], is comparable to the performance Claude Opus 4.5 showed on this task.
I had Claude whip up a viewer, which I guess I can actually share. Some real sessions are here, if anyone's interested: https://zork-tmp.taf.codes/
It's a fun problem for thinking about agent/harness engineering generally.
We are working on our two site-search search engines Monocle Search [0] and SearchCue [1]. The former is squarely aimed at people using Squarespace, whereas our newer offering SearchCue is aimed at anyone with a site that wants to add search.
We used Meilisearch as the search backend in the beginning but have since replaced it with a quite sophisticated search stack built around Tantivy [2]. We now support crawling and indexing of pages, most common office documents and PDFs, run OCR and feature extraction of images you might have, offer typeahead search with the aim of giving you providing answers as fast as you can type, as well as more classic agentic/conversational ai search.
There have been quite a number of interesting optimization challenges to solve in case anyone is interested. We have search nodes distributed around the globe to provide the lowest possible latency regardless of where the end-user sits.
We are also working on some other smaller side projects, but they aren't quite ready to launch yet.
Long story short: Meilisearch is a very good search application for sure, but our needs drifted apart.
Longer version:
Our usecase isn't entirely aligned with how Meilisearch is meant to be used, I think. For one, we have a very high number of indices (at the time of using Meilisearch we had multiple per site that uses our service) and we wanted to have these replicated to edge nodes we have placed around the globe to keep latency down. In the end I was ending up spending an inordinate amount of time wrangling Meilisearch to get indices up and running across our different edge nodes. And, I am not sure if it was a regression in the last Meilisearch version we used, or user error, but at some point some index creations would just never get done, and would hold up our entire indexing pipeline. So long story short: the amount of effort needed to orchestrate and keep all the individual Meilisearch nodes up to date and in sync just turned out to be too much hassle.
The system I built afterwards works vastly better because it's actually bespoke and tailored to our use case. I can create the search indices on our crawler nodes entirely in isolation, run all sorts of preprocessing and optimizations once, and then just ship the final search indices to all the nodes that then serve them, and as a result I need wastly less computational resources on those edge nodes too, since no actual indexing work ever needs to be done on them.
It also means (double edges sword of course, because Meilisearch already gives you so much functionality out of the box) that I had to re-implement a whole lot of stuff around relevance tuning, snippet generation, ranking, etc, but as a result I have also been able to build interesting functionality than we didn't get out of the box before. And lastly, since the search index is now served as part of our main search node application things also get really fast, as I have no latency whatsoever to speak of going from app to Meilisearch.
chickensong 14 hours ago [-]
Very interesting! I'm considering Meilisearch but have zero experience with it, so I appreciate your response, thanks. I've used Elastic in the past, but trying to avoid it now. I'm a ways from needing edge distribution, so hopefully Meili might be a decent choice until then. Isolated indexing shipped back to the core sounds pretty cool though.
amotinga 1 days ago [-]
https://vorbim.org/ - free AI generated website for russian speaking folks in Moldova to learn romanian.
AI to generate lessons, excercises
AI text to speech to make pronounciations
AI to code cards
open sources words dbs.
same idea - there isn't really a zillow like website in moldova - mostly classifieds sites. so I figured why not - gonna scrape the internet and put them on the map. we'll see what comes of it.
mamaluigie 1 days ago [-]
dont post your vibecoded shit on this website. That is for reddit r/vibecoding...
chrisweekly 1 days ago [-]
This comment thread is literally "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)". And you're going to castigate someone for answering in good faith? Yikes.
ls-a 1 days ago [-]
No extinct dinosaurs are allowed here. That is for jurassic park.
405126121 2 days ago [-]
Working on Push Realm (https://pushrealm.com) the AI solution sharing network. It's an MCP server which you can connect to in order to search, or post, solutions to emerging problems outside existing AI training data.
The original idea was just "Stackoverflow but for AI agents" but I have tweaked it a lot, learning that humans and agents work in very different ways.
There are multiple potential benefits, the most important to me is avoiding token waste. Why are we all burning tokens solving the same issues with frontier models if we can simply share solutions?
Secondary to this, because each solution logs the model which made the initial post AND subsequent edits, it will hopefully become a helpful guide to the specialties of each models, long term. If one model confidently posts solutions but another always finds important security caveats, for example.
davidpapermill 2 days ago [-]
I wonder if AI agents could developed their own open-source ecosystem.
Some kind of knowledge-sharing seems inevitable, but the question is what shape and form will that take? We've seen wiki's, discussion forums, AI's posting to GitHub.
I feel like knowledge bases for AI will look somewhat different from our past experience.
How will you encourage sharing of solutions? I don't think "social proof for models" will be enough.
Loeffelmann 2 days ago [-]
How do you prevent prompt injections?
405126121 2 days ago [-]
Defense is layered, but not injection-specific. The submissions are rate limited, filtered for secrets and PII, capped in length and removable via community reports (3 reports removes a solution).
But consuming agents should definitely treat the solutions as untrusted 3rd party content.
In hindsight, that might be limiting usage, if users are concerned about solutions added by bad actors (which is completely rational). When I have some time, I'll look at this more closely.
405126121 2 days ago [-]
Also the security audit for the skill I released mentions 3rd party content exposure
I'm working in building an ultrasound system to see inside of myself.
So far I've got the analog front end manufactured and sitting on my desk able to stream 40Msps of data to my computer.
I bought some used ebay convex medical probes with like 360 connections and have started to reverse engineer them.
There's a lot of FPGA work involved and ive got AI helping me out. It's surprisingly been really good at FPGA programming.
niothiel 2 days ago [-]
Happily continuing work on https://cardcast.gg. It's a way for my friends and I to play Magic: The Gathering online using a webcam. Spelltable has been neglected by WoTC, and we wanted more features, so I rolled my own (and learned some Computer Vision stuff in the process!)
Most recently I rolled out automated card tracking, so there's no more need to click on cards to know what they are, they just automatically scan on a set interval.
I also moved over to using livekit for the service, and man, I should've done that sooner.
If you play MTG, I'm looking for more people to come give me feedback and contribute. Feels like something others can benefit from!
jerrac 1 days ago [-]
How hard would it be to adjust for different CCG's? I tried a while back to play a CCG with my brother and nephew via zoom. Didn't work very well. This sounds like a really good way to do it. :)
Mostly me exploring how to build a Treiber Stack (first in Go, then in C++) -> Figuring out ABA and Use-After-Free in the C++ implementation, and then touching a bit of Hazard Pointers, and ending with a benchmark comparison b/w a mutex and a lock-free version of the stack.
LLMs are a great tool at teaching and explaining. I don't use it to generate code, but it takes away the pain of searching and setting up dependencies, tools, etc. So I can focus only on the concepts and then do the testing.
It is not perfect, but I learned something that I did not know thanks to these techniques. And that too without reading dense and obscure books. I love it.
kajman 1 days ago [-]
You may (or may not) find Paul McKenney's free book on parallel programming interesting - it has an unusual tone for a Computer Science textbook that made it less dry for me. There's a substantial section covering lock free structures.
I've spent the last 8 weeks or so building the spreadsheet tool I want to see in the world. CSVs as first-class citizens with the ergonomics and speed of my text editor. It's been a great opportunity to explore building GUIs in rust, and to really experiment with coding assistants.
I like working in native apps on my Mac for spreadsheets, so I've used Numbers a little bit, but if you have the same iCloud file open on two machines they conflict and don't merge nicely. Does this have a better story there?
wkirby 2 days ago [-]
Almost certainly not; it really depends on how iCloud handles the sync. Cassava supports (at the moment) CSV (and its variants TSV, etc.) and JSON files. If your sync mechanism works well for those files in a text editor like vscode or sublime, then it will work well with Cassava. If not, there's not much we can do on our end - that's really a problem with how the sync mechanism works.
wkirby 1 days ago [-]
Replying for the ~5 people who happened to download earlier this afternoon, the rc20 build that was uploaded earlier today was missing the update server URL. Re-downloading rc20 should have a corrected build that will notify you of any updates in the future.
414techie 2 days ago [-]
Why use Cassava over other options, such as Excel, CSVLint, or Notepad++?
Also, have you considered supporting Windows and Linux?
wkirby 2 days ago [-]
Linux support is there and working, half my team uses arch btw. Windows is working, I just don't build for it right now.
Excel is cripplingly slow (thought more capable). I don't like using text editors for sheet data; it's simply not as ergonomic to browse a CSV as a text file.
kaeruct 2 days ago [-]
Love the name
wkirby 2 days ago [-]
I keep telling my team "it's CSV but with some As thrown in there."
BorisMelnik 2 days ago [-]
windows?
wkirby 1 days ago [-]
Coming soon. Just need to figure out the build and deploy story.
ilhamfp 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on:
https://pasal.id/ - A machine-readable database of Indonesian laws and regulations.
https://laws.sg/ - Singaporean statutes structured specifically for AI agents.
https://mylaw.my/ - Malaysian federal acts formatted for easy agent parsing.
I'm on a mission to make all Southeast Asian laws easily accessible by AI agents!
chirau 2 days ago [-]
What does machine readable mean? And what does easily accessible by AI agents mean? Can agents read regular web pages? As in, what is the difference between this and regular web pages?
zloy88 1 days ago [-]
Just some days ago I started a closed beta for a friendship/dating app.
The idea:
Everyone must answer 14 questions, then is getting matched with someone who aligns with you. Once a match is found, both have to answer another set of questions and all answers are revealed immediately. If you don't like any answer, you can quit early and land in the matching pool again. If you like each other, you can both decide to get closer. If one disagrees, you will never be matched again. Also picture reveal is only at the end of the 1on1 session and only if both agree to share it.
I got like ~80 users in about 4-5 days - and it is my personal biggest success any hobby project ever achieved, so I am happy. Especially I get so good feedback.
It's invite only, if anyone would like to join, not sure if there is any DM function here - I am new.
I made it specifically to bring back what was amazing about the old internet, and do it as authentically as possible. takes inspiration from old internet messageboards, usenet, bbs, and pubnix hosts. it has sealed mail, boards, an rss reader, built-in media player, custom profiles, a links directory, and quite a bit more.
it's just a little hobby art project for me but i've really appreciated talking to like minded people in a calm space.
b1tt3 19 hours ago [-]
I just registered, this is such a delight! I love the auto dithering for the profile pics & that you can select a file for your profile music. I'm building in an adjacent space (slow-web, your house on the internet), let's be friends. Hell, let's be BEST friends!!!
replwoacause 15 hours ago [-]
Haha that's awesome. Would love to hear more about your project. Share it on the boards if you want, I bet others would be interested too and you may be able to pick up a few new users! Hit me up anyway, always happen to swap notes, thanks for stopping by to check it out :]
leemac 2 days ago [-]
This is wonderful. I've often wondered about small, human-only groups forming in tighter social circles, which can be hard to find.
replwoacause 2 days ago [-]
Thank you! That's the idea, and even though its been a slow burn, the conversations have been interesting and rewarding. One of the funniest proof of concept so far was, someone asked how to route a guitar body to fit a new bridge on a network with maybe a dozen active people at the time. Within like a day, a total stranger with an actual woodshop and eight spare guitars showed up with real technical advice and offered him a discount on one of the guitars. Maybe it was a fluke, but it really struck me, and there have been a number of small interactions since that one that really remind me why I loved the early web so much.
myzek 2 days ago [-]
This looks great, I'll join as soon as I'm on my personal laptop
replwoacause 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! Hope to see you there when you get a chance. It works on mobile too, but it was made for the desktop first :)
NDlurker 2 days ago [-]
Joined. I love the aesthetic and looks like there are active users. Very promising.
replwoacause 2 days ago [-]
Awesome, looking forward to seeing you on the boards. Yeah, we have a decent little group of active posters and we've been adding to that number slowly but consistently since I put it online a few weeks ago.
It's been fun and I've learned starting a community is a lot harder than it looks. Maybe I'll write a post on what I've learned sometime. TLDR and probably no surprise to most: making the software is the easy part.
aiisjustanif 1 days ago [-]
How are you handling content moderation?
replwoacause 1 days ago [-]
I have a robust set of moderation tools built into the network and I check it several times per day. There is nothing automated setup yet because I don't need it. We have just under 200 members at the moment so this is working well. If the growth of the network ever outstrips my ability to moderate it effectively then I'll look at introducing new methods. So far, I've only had to delete 1 wall post and 1 thread, so it's very manageable.
brandonc7 2 days ago [-]
I've been working on a Spanish language learning tool that helps users learn with comprehensible input. It uses LLMs to generate targeted stories for the users and while the user is extensively reading they select any words they don't understand. Those words then get added to a space repetition deck and are used in future stories when it's time to review the words again.
The project has been really fun to work on because of the fun systems I've had to think about. I had to figure out the optimal way to store the user's knowledge of the words. For example you don't need to store the singular and plural of a word in Spanish or even every verb tense, you should probably store the lemma and track those modifiers instead. It's also been a fun challenge to tell the LLM the user's Spanish knowledge without specifically sending every lemma/word the user knows.
I have seen some similar projects out there but a lot of don't seem to focus on creating the perfect story for the user and instead have them choose a CEFR level (A1,B2 etc). Which I think defeats the whole point of using the LLM. With computers we have been able to track a user's knowledge granulary but now we can do the exact same thing but for creating.
I'm really excited to see how far I can take this project. I wanna continue to polish it, but also there is so many details I can continue to add the make the ideal language learning reading app. I just launched the beta last Tuesday, so if you are learning Spanish, I would love if you tried it out and gave feedback.
Very cool! I made something similar a while ago for learning Mandarin Chinese. Unfortunately more basic than your Spanish version: https://dailychinesestories.com.
I miss working on language learning tools. My attempts were all in the ~2024 era of LLMs.
brandonc7 1 days ago [-]
Thanks! And you're website looks pretty cool.
You should try working on language learning tools again. The models now are pretty good especially since you don't always need the frontier model to generate good stories. I would love for this project to get solid traction so I could distill my own models that are better at meeting my story creation requirements.
gabriel-uribe 1 days ago [-]
Appreciate it! I plan to. To be fair, I've made small updates here and there to this one. Just no overhaul/expansion yet.
Best of luck on the beta & release!
ogig 2 days ago [-]
I've spent the last months building a videogame: Cardume [1], its a pvp game where 2 players battle using a swarm of thousands of cells. It uses Reynold's boids, Couzin flocking behaviors and diffuse fields to generate a mini ecological simulation each game. The sim is pretty well optimized, handling 12k agents at 60fps in a medium hardware machine. It also has some pretty cool visuals. Any feedback appreciated, the Store went page online this last week and I'm still working on the presentation.
Awesome game! Small suggestion, for each paragraph that is in your description, you can add a small gif-style webm video. It's kind of expected now for Steam games, and specially because it's such a unique game it would make an easier introduction to the concept. Looking forward to play it :D
ogig 2 days ago [-]
Thank you very much. Will definitely add those gif-style sections!
coldstartops 2 days ago [-]
Hi ogig, funilly enough I was also running this boids experiment a few months ago. Managed to get around 8k at 60 fps on 1 thread on my cpu, using golang.
My goal for this experiment was to encode the optimal cache data structures into meta programming generators such that claude can write high level DSL and generate down to this level of simulations. I am curious if you had such an approach also.
ogig 2 days ago [-]
That's very interesting, thanks for commenting. Not my approach, I have a multithreaded Rust kernel (SoA, spatial hash, bounded-kNN, rayon on some passes). The agents sit on top of several diffuse fields, an econ layer and combat logic, all of it needing bit-determinism for the netcode.
I do use some metaprogramming, but as safety rather than generation: a declarative macro derives the modifier struct, defaults, parsing and wire order from a single list, and feeds hash/save/resync so I can add mechanics at a high level without being able to desync the sim. Also a set of probes help me test for correctness and speed after a change.
So seems like I'm taking an iteration speed approach with safeguards, checking after the fact, while yours is optimizing beforehand by trying to encode optimal structs. That's fascinating, it will probably occupy my head for a good portion of the day, thanks again.
kingo55 2 days ago [-]
Continuing to build my olive oil tracking site (https://www.extravirginvault.com/) and pipeline. Freshness is king in the world of olive oil, and I hope to highlight to people they can find high quality, fresh olive oil produced near them.
It's been received well from producers and olive oil enthusiasts (e.g. looking for specific chemistry, cultivars and similar oils) but I feel like I've been shadow banned from Google - I seem to get more traffic from DuckDuckGo and Bing.
sswezey 2 days ago [-]
I'd imagine the Google issue may be to the fact that your URL looks like it would be porn.
kingo55 1 days ago [-]
I hope you're joking.
aiisjustanif 1 days ago [-]
Definitely a plausible possibility
ButlerianJihad 1 days ago [-]
I mean I was personally disappointed here
conductr 2 days ago [-]
Site was excruciatingly slow to load, locked up my browser and I just had to bounce. iPhone chrome. Likely google penalty.
kingo55 1 days ago [-]
Thankyou. Sorry to hear it locked up your browser. That definitely sounds like a bug - I've got GPT 5.6 Sol on the case...
codeadict 1 days ago [-]
Very nice site but small dataset on producers, only 2 from Spain that produces about 50% of the Olive Oil in the planet
kingo55 1 days ago [-]
Thanks - I'm saving the biggest and oldest producers like Spain and Italy till last so I can do them justice.
the-mitr 2 days ago [-]
I am working on building an interactive mathematics book exploring various curves and their properties/applications.
Two wonderful books which initiated me into this topic are
I learnt a lot from these, and found other books which are detailed explorations. Using interactive applets would make wonderful companions for these explorations.
I am planning to use jsxgraph for the interactive applets.
coderatlarge 2 days ago [-]
how do you plan to publish?
the-mitr 2 days ago [-]
most probably using gitlab pages,
coderatlarge 2 days ago [-]
looking forward to it!
BruzWJ 14 hours ago [-]
I have been working on this project for building personal AI trading systems.
The core idea is using TradingView style alert system as N8N workflow trigger to run analysis and order executions with live market data monitoring.
I personally tried many "AI trading" tools but none of them handle things the way I expect. Most of them run on a schedule based analysis like every 5 minutes or daily, and almost all of the ones perform analysis through a AI black box with no transparency for how the analysis is performed and what data was referenced.
So I ended up making one myself that trigger analysis at more meaningful moments generated by my technical indicators, and run the analysis that I personally configured with inspectable steps and detailed info for better reviews, then tune the workflow to be more reproducible and reliable.
Currently working on a MCP that let Codex or Claude Code be able to edit indicators and workflows, as well as setting up monitors for me. I originally made a Copilot system for this but it's too expensive since it uses API keys to access AI services, would be much cheaper with subscription backed access via MCP :D
I value transparency a lot when it comes to trading analysis, not sure if anyone else feels the same
The biggest addition in the past month is initial support for ngspice netlist export — you can now take a Circuitscript design and export it to a SPICE netlist for ngspice simulation. This is a step toward closing the loop between describing a circuit and verifying its behavior, all from the same source file.
I have also added bus support, which makes wide parallel connections like data/interface (I2C, SPI, etc.) lines much less tedious to connect up.
Recently I produced and tested a 161-LED charlieplexed array in Circuitscript, using nested for-loops to generate the array instead of copy-pasting every LED and connection by hand. I plan to write a blog post soon to document this design.
As always, the motivation is to describe schematics as code rather than by clicking around graphical CAD tools (KiCad, Allegro, Altium, etc.). I want to spend time on the design itself, with code expressing the intentions clearly and reviewable in text.
Feedback welcome, especially from anyone frustrated with graphical schematic tools! If you have a KiCad design you'd like to convert to Circuitscript, please reach out to me. I'm looking to test the limits of the language and happy to help with the conversion.
backend_dev82 2 days ago [-]
I also recently got JBD2 compliant driver merged into GNU HURD's ext2, and I'm now improving documentation, and things like that.
I'm continuing to build out OneBusAway Cloud (Heroku for public transit), just like last month. https://onebusawaycloud.com. Since last month, the overall polish and feature completeness of the product has improved substantially, and we're starting to see meaningful inbound interest.
I was annoyed by the speed of docker on Mac’s, so I took a journey and decided to rewrite everything about it. DD was original working name and I’m in process of rebranding. But we can run docker on Mac’s with no vm. And its destroying qemu. We have plenty of new features that are comming. Rendering native apps, workspaces, much more.
plextoria 2 days ago [-]
Thank you! A project like this was on my wishlist for a long time.
Colleagues looked at me like I'm weird when I was saying containers without a VM should be possible on macOS. I switched to a Linux laptop because I couldn't stand the experience of working with Docker on macos.
I wonder if some of the macOS sandboxing features can be used instead of relying solely on the JIT
rh94 2 days ago [-]
Yeah docker Mac expirience is pretty bad especially the x86 is just painful, and to your comment (about security), it should not really matter in practice, in fact we used both, but goal really is to run secure sandboxes that are processes without performance impact.
plextoria 2 days ago [-]
I see, best of luck with the project! I hope I can contribute one day
I made a Saas tool aimed to no Download Needed (PWA). Works right in your browser. Just point your phone camera at a QR, then point it at barcodes. Data lands in your desktop browser in real time.
I retired several years ago and now I spend my allotted ‘tech time’ learning. Thirty five years ago I used to make up for having the ‘wrong’ degree (Physics instead of Computer Science) by writing books (Springer-Verlag, McGraw-Hill, etc.) and these books helped me get work and do business.
Now I write to learn new things myself and my mode of operation has changed radically: I still manually research and write code but I also ‘flesh out’ my writing and coding experiments using agentic tools. My approach is different because I don’t care at all about work efficiency so I spend a lot of time reading and studying material I generate with AI, and iterating in ways that wouldn’t make sense in a business environment. I still write open content books on whatever currently interests me but I am thinking, after 35 years of being an author, of winding down this activity because I think my readers might be better off doing their own research and coding, and with agentic design, research, and coding tools this gets easier.
BTW, I miss the old way of doing things, and some of what I do now is attempting to make AI less noticeable to me as I work, and using AI to work on my own work environment.
Everyone has different interests and abilities, and if what we might call the current AI hype cycle has any lasting value (open question) it is in letting us as humans ‘go our own way’ and customize tech and our life style to match what we want.
This is my side project turned solo bootstrapped startup that I've been working on over the past 2.5 years. Pastmaps has been solely a US-focused platform since it's initial launch but I'm currently working on launching to the UK and Ireland within the next week. If all goes as planned then I should have a first wave of 30K fully digitized, hi-res, and fully georeferenced 1800s ordnance maps available soon to help folks discover the history all around them.
I'm likely going to need to start building out my own global LiDAR dataset next though. My coverage for the US is quite stellar thanks to the data provided by the USGS' 3DEP program but I'm way out of touch with what's available and possible in the EU. It's gonna be a challenge but I'm excited to dive in.
neomantra 1 days ago [-]
I have found and used this organically and it is a cool mapping tool!
I used it to get better perspectives on the history and place names in Connecticut, from the Dutch and Siwanoy to modern times.
hartleybrody 19 hours ago [-]
11 years ago, I had the idea that I should be able to take any article on an arbitrary website and listen to it as a narration in my chosen podcast player. At the time, text-to-speech (TTS) services were very robotic and it was difficult to listen to anything longer than 10 seconds. But now that TTS is much better, long form narrations are actually quite pleasant to listen to, so I gave it another go.
There's a browser extension that reads the content of the article on the page (only when you activate it, using least privilege browser APIs for content scripts) and then narrates the article for you. You get a custom podcast RSS URL that works in (almost) any podcast player, and then you can take articles with you to catch up while driving, walking the dog, etc. All the typical podcast audio controls you're used to like speed settings, skipping, and no new apps to download or learn.
It has genuinely been a big benefit and allowed me to keep up with articles I'd never normally have time to read, plus it allows me to reduce my screen time. My wife also uses and loves it. There have been some interesting bugs in the narration like originally pronouncing "24/7" as "twenty-four sevenths" but I am working through different strategies to get more accurate narration from arbitrary long-form text.
With apologies for the ".AI" domain, it was a bit of an impulse buy: https://earcast.ai/
variodot 2 days ago [-]
I am working on ShopSpec (https://shopspec.io/), a tool for designing bookshelves and cabinets. Enter the dimensions and it generates the parts, cuts, sheet layout, and build steps.
I built it because I wanted to spend less time drawing boxes in CAD and more time building them. Still early and I'd love feedback from other woodworkers.
johsole 2 days ago [-]
This is super cool.
Bed frames might be a nice category to add as well :)
I have wanted to build some custom bookshelves for an oddly shaped room I have. Any plans on adding bookshelves that aren't rectangular?
variodot 2 days ago [-]
I would love to hear more about your oddly-shaped non-rectangular room.
For now rectilinear has made things simpler; but on this kick now with 3d-printed jigs also derived from the spec. I already have a dog-hole system worked out and in-place with this idea. Could be interesting to extend to curves - becomes approachable/repeatable.
scientifik 2 days ago [-]
Narro, it's a user-curated social media app. You add the profiles you follow on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and Narro shows their posts in chronological order, with no algorithm, no ads, and no tracking.
The "new" idea we are working on is a feed that ends. Every mainstream app is engineered with infinite scroll. Narro is finite by design. You open it, you see what the people you follow actually posted, you reach the end, and you're done.
Then the next time you open the app you're still only getting new content from the profiles you followed. It ends up creating a totally different user habit.
would there be any curated lists? feel like I would love to see the top ai posts/minds in one spot.
scientifik 1 days ago [-]
No, the point is that we specifically don't do that, "top minds" is a relative term. The app lets you curate your own feed of what you would consider the top, and also keep that feed totally separate from your other interests.
I wanted to have a place to see the effect of changing macroeconomic factors, e.g. interest rate, inflation, unemployment, etc. It's designed to show economic relationships for non-experts.
As someone with very little knowledge of economics, I played with the idea of writing a kind of wealth simulator, where money acts as voltage and keeps the economy running. It would allow you to eliminate jobs and replace them with AI and see how the circuit starves population groups which in turn cascade to other segments of the economy.
I never got to design a good representation of the entire ecosystem to simulate (external pressure, debt, military and technological advancements, international soft power, etc.).
oalae5niMiel7qu 8 hours ago [-]
Money as voltage is an interesting idea. I've determined that "wealth" is really just low entropy (both in terms of energy and information), and economics is really just thermodynamics underneath it all.
"Technological advancement" could just be a decrease in the amount of thermodynamic waste created by an economy (or a particular company) as it converts oil/uranium and calories into useful work.
There's another layer of thermodynamics where wealth acts like heat. Moving jobs from a rich (hot) country to a poor (cold) one is like attaching a thermal conductor. Eventually, the two countries reach equal temperature and it's no longer possible to extract useful work (profit) from the heat transfer. AI is probably like an infinitely cold heat sink that can absorb all the heat you pour into it until your heat source reaches absolute zero.
julosflb 2 days ago [-]
I had similar idea, a tool to model the economy of a country. The idea would be to give to every one a simple tool to groundcheck political programms before voting. The economy is complex, there is no simple solution to a complex problem, only trade offs. But you need to see the effect of these trade offs before making a decision and elect one or another politician.
scrivna 15 hours ago [-]
When Unemployment rate is falling it goes red… but that’s a good thing, should be green.
jawns 2 days ago [-]
As an engineering manager and later a director, a regular and often difficult task was assigning ROI to projects that had recognizable but diffuse impact. It's easy to calculate a dollar figure for certain projects by projecting additional conversions or revenue. It's harder for a security or SRE project that doesn't have a direct impact on those things, but can help reduce risk or empower a bunch of other teams to operate more safely or move more quickly.
I have been working on a set of tools and standard formulas that can be applied to these cases and demonstrate a more accurate view of a team's or department's overall ROI. The plan is to open-source the bulk of it, but provide a hosted service for folks who don't want to manage it themselves.
bryanculver 2 days ago [-]
I'm slowly building an IDE with mentor/skill-level awareness baked in.
I've noticed that juniors and new hires often fall into an impostor-syndrome trap when reading an unfamiliar codebase or reviewing a senior peer's PR. Documentation helps, but it usually runs into the curse of knowledge: it's written by someone who's spent so much time in the code that they've lost sight of what it's like to be new to it.
I've always liked the rubber-ducking process, and mob programming too, so I'm trying to combine both into a modern AI-enhanced form:
- "Duckies" with distinct personalities (really, skills) that each specialize in a particular kind of problem
- "Teachable moments" (working title): small bubbles that surface something novel, tangential, or foundational as you work
- Skill-level detection and a routing model, so the app doesn't overwhelm or annoy you with explanations you don't need
Each duck also runs on a tiered memory model, rather than one flat context window. There's a core memory, essentially the duck's resume, defining what it's actually skilled at. Above that sits a longer-term memory for company standards and code style, and a separate long-term memory scoped to the project itself. Short-term memory then covers whatever task or feature is currently in flight. The idea is that a duck should reason more like a team member with a real employment history than a chatbot that forgets everything between sessions.
It's called Duckies AI (https://www.duckiesai.com). It’s very rough, working locally, but not in a state I’m ready to ship yet. I'm hoping to ship an alpha soon. Turns out there are a LOT of table-stakes features an IDE needs.
digitaltrees 2 days ago [-]
I love this. I have been building and IDE for myself. My non-technical team wants to use it after using lovable and things like that. I started building a dialect of JavaScript to make more approachable but that seems impossible the more I get into it.
montag 2 days ago [-]
Have you thought about building it as a plugin, e.g. for Jetbrains?
bryanculver 2 days ago [-]
I started down this path, although with a VS Code plugin, but I didn’t find the ability to visually tie into the text editor with chat modals/bubbles. It’s likely what I would pivot to if I don’t like the amount of effort necessary to build the basics.
jdw64 2 days ago [-]
Cute IDE LOL
I like the design. It feels like a good WhatsApp vibe to me.
Been maintaining this for almost a year, and it’s been fun. Keeps me up to date with new OSS.
https://getpinnd.com - A small social network for map makers to created shared lists of places.
Was just a spur of the moment, and ended up building it in little than a week.
Saigonautica 2 days ago [-]
Nice. I tried to submit a project on the former. However CloudFlare seems to be blocking me from submitting the form.
This is a common issue for all of us in Viet Nam though, not sure if there's anything you can do your side. I'll figure out how to get my submission through later :)
woutr_be 2 days ago [-]
Sorry about that, wasn't aware that this was an issue for people in Vietnam. If you want, you can direct email me at contact[at]openaltfinder[dot]com, or you can reply here with the project you wanted to submit.
jdthedisciple 2 days ago [-]
Quick feedback: I searched "n8n" and it did not surface SimStudio [0], which is pretty much an open source clone of it.
Thank you, hadn’t heard or SimStudio before, have added it to my list of projects to add.
majora2007 2 days ago [-]
Sad to see Kavita (or any OS self-hosted reading server) not on openaltfinder :(
woutr_be 2 days ago [-]
I've added it to my list of projects to look into, so should be added fairly soon!
-i 23 minutes ago [-]
747.run
czhu12 1 days ago [-]
Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years. Its basically a one-click install against a Kubernetes instance to give you a Heroku interface.
I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.
Canine basically wraps a Kubernetes cluster -- gives you a heroku like interface to deploy applications to. At some point, if you get big enough that canine is no longer powerful enough, you can just "eject" canine from kubernetes, and continue using kubernetes directly, without having to do any migrations.
Just passed about 2000 developers, at this point most of my work is resolving bug fixes, adding helper text everywhere to make things cleaner, and supporting setups I've never encountered like homelabs with changing IP's
ryanisnan 1 days ago [-]
Kubernetes is really powerful, but IMHO, it is the wrong tool here.
It might be the thing you use to power this system, but the benefits of Heroku were precisely that it didn't need you to think about the guts of a system like Kubernetes.
The magic was in the incredibly concise API, and the fact that it "just worked".
czhu12 1 days ago [-]
1000% agree, the goal of canine is to make it so that you don't have to think about the guts of the system until you want to. Inevitably, companies outgrow the custom-built, closed-sourced, vendor-hosted platforms, but Canine allows you to fall back to Kubernetes.
The thing that inspired me was realizing that all of the current platforms that make it easy to host apps today are built on top of Kubernetes anyways -- they just hide it all from you. I'm hoping Canine gives people an option to self host on their own Kubernetes, and with sensible defaults, get basically as easy to use of an experience.
This is great, and my users (turtlespaces.org) could absolutely use this (we use three and react), but you haven't specified any license?
kenjinp 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! How silly of me, I will update the repo with an MIT License~
empressplay 2 days ago [-]
Great! Thanks so much, I'll let you know how it goes integrating it :)
Vyramach 2 days ago [-]
In my free time, I'm building an iPad game to help Autistic kids practice real world skills. The game is called Pocketown. https://pocketown.app/
If you're a parent to an autistic child(like me), I'd love to talk to you about this.
If you know anyone who has an autistic child, It would be super helpful if you could tell them about this game.
Thanks!
zach_vantio 10 hours ago [-]
Ive built the infrastructure to deploy full scale autonomous agents in the enterprise. Vantio AI secures autonomous agents at the kernal level using eBPF. We provide full compliance reporting and metrics using cryptograhically sealed telemetry logs, block all PII from leaving your network, and provide the guardrails needed for you to build an entire enterprise (99%) without humans in the loop. At the moment, its running a 30 day soak test against an AI Red Team, and has successfully blocked 35,000 exploit attacks and rogue actions from hallucinating AI agents.
We are patent pending, and submit our application to YC in two weeks.
Check us out. And if you are building fully autonomous companies/enterprises, we are looking for design partners to deploy our Enterprise level enforcement.
I'm working on hunting down as much publicly accessible stained glass and mapping it. No exciting libraries or frameworks, but if you know of some great stained glass in your area, please document it!
Love this. Years ago I had an idea for something _like_ this but for public murals/street art.
whyage 2 days ago [-]
Beautiful. Keep at it!
ltsui 1 days ago [-]
I recently created an interactive portfolio in the style of a 2D role-playing game using Kaboom/Kaplay.js: https://tsuilouis.github.io/portfolio-game/ (pardon any broken links, those are works in progress).
More generally, I'm working on setting up a personal website/blog. Did some research and after considering Jekyll, Hugo, and Eleventy/11ty, I'm going with the third. I've been looking for a new role for the past while but haven't had much success, so I'm trying to market myself this way. I've been interested in creating a website/blog for a long time (not that I expect to be a prolific blogger) and this search has given me the motivation to finally get it done.
anitroves 9 hours ago [-]
I am working on an Anime website, the idea is to create Anime character profiles like that of Linkedin members profiles. every profile will be linked to its specialized ad highly precise AI with persistency our its role. We will be bringing first ever true anime AI, know as Otaku AI to life with no chat limits along with an Anime suggestion engine. The idea may sound absurd to many HNs but we are putting everything into this project.
We have teams assigned on each task, I am on Suggestion engine using api keys is fun but covering security is really a tough task
furyofantares 2 days ago [-]
I released 3 games my friend designed, and built a game framework in WebAssembly for building them. Some 9 or 10 months ago I asked my friend (legendary game designer Mike Elliott) if he wanted to work through his backlog of designs he has that he'd love to see brought to life. I'm very protective of my family life and dedicate a lot of my time to it, and have a normal full time job, and so LLM-agents really enabled being able to make stuff like this happen in a reasonable timeframe just working on and off in my free time.
I started them with ebitengine (Golang) but got somewhat frustrated with its web builds, and so built my own thing for small games that I want to work great on mobile or native PC, but also on web. I call it NanoGame, the host is written in Rust and the games are AssemblyScript. I've ported a number of other small games I had written to it as well, but haven't released any.
Two of the games I released a couple days ago were actually the ebitengine versions, but have partial ports to my framework, and the third I released the version using my stuff.
https://scramblequest.app - ebitengine, word search game where you slay monsters with the words, has a long campaign as well as a daily challenge and unlimited play
https://wordpeek.app - ebitengine, another word search game, this one reveals pieces of a picture and your goal is to guess the picture
https://playsilhouette.app - my own framework, this is a simple matching/hidden object(ish) game, more for kids
I'm working on a multiplayer RPG https://grimrain.com - calling it an MMO is quite bold, but the gameplay fits that genre. The game server is designed to be self-hostable too, so it's like Valheim meets OSRS
akutlay 2 days ago [-]
Looks great! As a tenured Runescape player, I like the graphics.
hniscrazy 2 days ago [-]
This looks amazing
yogiisinaga 2 days ago [-]
I'm building a Go to WASM reactive UI framework called Goowee. Fine grained signals (no VDOM), components run once, SSR and hydration built in. The JS bridge is about 200 lines. Still experimental but I've thought about it thoroughly and have used it for the landing page of the project and some other projects of mine.
I know Go UI frameworks have a long history of not quite getting there. The bet I am making is that WASM is now fast enough, the tooling is mature enough, and the fine grained signal model avoids the VDOM overhead that held earlier attempts back. Would love an honest critique of whether the framework actually solves the problem and whether it's usable for other's development experience.
Neat! I did a fair bit of toying with Go's WASM target early on and was able to port a couple neat things to the web. The sheer size of the WASM output though was a limiting factor for me, and I kind of stopped toying with it a number of years ago.
Are you using the built in WASM target? I've been told Tiny Go's WASM build target is worth investigating but haven't tried.
yogiisinaga 2 days ago [-]
Yes, the size of the binary is quite big (~4MB for the landing page) but it's a trade-off that I'm taking with this approach and I think there will be ways to optimize for size.
I'm currently using the built-in WASM target but Tiny Go is one of the items that I have on v1.0 road map. Will give it a shot and see if it actually helps with the size without affecting any performance.
Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago [-]
So I am building https://buyvds.net with a global visual interface which has a list of around I think 249 vps providers over 60 countries combining up to 863 links (one vps provider can provide vps in multiple countries)
It uses DuckDB to expose a sql query interface in the website itself because I wanted to give the freedom to just do something interesting with the data.
My friend John had an idea which I really liked so I added "john mode" which shows what he was suggesting :-D
I think that Hackernews might like it but honestly, I have probably just made it out for myself and also as something to just share casually with folks on hackernews and other websites and hopefully I am able to help people and myself in some way with this website.
Open to some feedback as usual (for mostly all my projects really) and thanks for reading and have a good day dear reader and hey perhaps give my website a try!
brynnbee 2 days ago [-]
I've been working on IdleQuest for about a year. It's a from-the-ground-up recreation of the 1999 classic, EverQuest. It features a custom real-time MMO server built in Go, a very thoroughly implemented web client, and the classic UI recreated in React. I spent hundreds of hours meticulously scraping, cleaning, and organizing original data and graphics, and there's still a lot of work to do. But I've had a lot of fun with it and have had a lot of people enjoy it so far.
That's cool. I tried it out and the movement is very floaty, so much so that it's hard to navigate the first room without running headfirst into a wall every time I try to go somewhere. Is it true to the original? Performance is great though.
Considering how difficult it can be to get certain versions of the game running nowadays, it's nice to have another option to explore the world! I tried and tried to get EQ1999 running on different Linux distributions (Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS) but just couldn't. Only version that worked is the official Steam client.
brynnbee 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! That's a good observation - I think in original EQ the camera is always perfectly following the player's back instead of being on a slight delay like IdleQuest. The actual 3D running around is a newer part of the project that hasn't been very fine-tuned. For most of its existence the 3D was just sort of a screensaver, and all the interaction happened in the UI instead of clicking on targets.
Scrolling in to use first-person, or clicking the view button to toggle it, might make your life easier in small spaces. This was true in original EQ, too.
danielpetrica 4 hours ago [-]
I am building https://laraplugins.io and trying to create a tool usefull for developers and agents.
JKCalhoun 2 days ago [-]
Finished my hobbyist analog computer [1]. (Just need to make a YouTube video, blog about it…)
I'm working on the last AI gateway you'll ever try - GoModel :)
I recently created a benchmark and it looks like GoModel is the fastest and most lightweight open-source (self-hosted) AI gateway on the market. I tried to make it as fair and honest as possible and you can reproduce the benchmark yourself.
I hope to start a golf architecture consulting company with the model, with a target of helping smaller courses improve the strategic interest of their at the lowest cost possible.
Not exactly a huge market, but this model should help clubs identify why boring holes are boring, and why interesting holes are interesting, and should be a very inexpensive way to try out permutations of changes without paying an architect hundreds of thousands of dollars without actually knowing whether the design will work.
Currently building an expanded golf shot dispersion pattern model, based on multiple variables, from dataset available to the public.
ryanisnan 1 days ago [-]
I made Media Den, a privacy-by-design iOS photo and video vault.
I launched in April, and I've been steadily updating it as time allows. Really happy with how far it's come. Here are the notable privacy-by-design features I've led with:
- Bring-your-own-storage
- End-to-end encrypted media (config stored encrypted in the secure enclave, cached data gets stored encrypted -- one exception is videos, which require on-disk passing to the native video player -- data gets stored on your cloud provider's system encrypted)
- Multi-cloud replication (and promotion from a replica to a new primary)
- Proximity-based no-internet local file sharing using ephemeral keys, with man-in-the-middle protection
- All the other typical non-shady features of a good vault (metadata removal, PIN auto-lock, privacy blur on app-switching)
- Zero telemetry, tracking, etc. There in fact no servers at all in the loop.
I've been building some sqlite plugins for playing with ngrams for text search. I'm not sure why, but I've learned a lot about the internal sqlite apis and it brings me a lot of joy. I would like to start a blog detailing some of this work but haven't found the time yet
I'm continuing to work on Personal Finances Python [1], a book that teaches software developers how to track their finances using the Python ecosystem, Double Entry Bookkeeping, and a bunch of plain-text files.
Apart from that, I recently started getting interested in the AT protocol ecosystem, so I built a directory [2] for discovering ATProto alternatives to mainstream/centralized products.
I made "Tetris - Plant Piece Edition" using the help of the Claude Code. I hope to have it hosted in the coming week, I'm just so lazy with hosting and those type of things nowadays.
Essentially, this Tetris variant adds one change: a single 1x1 square that once placed, every turn it "grows up" by one. That is, once you place it, it will be a 1x1 square. Once you place the next piece, it will be a 2x1 piece. Then after the next piece it will be a 3x1 tall piece. It gets out of control if you don't manage it, but is actually a pretty fun addition. Maybe I'll make a post when it's finally hosted.
infinitebit 2 days ago [-]
I started toying with perlin vector fields as a level design tool for a game idea, then became more interested in visualizing them than the game they were meant to support. this weekend i realized i think im making a (short) ~game in which you control a dust mote riding air currents, trying to gather enough water to fall back to earth as a raindrop
olpad 4 hours ago [-]
I’m working on an open source audio interface, which will hopefully one day turn into a whole line of open source pro audio gear.
dagorenouf 17 hours ago [-]
I started playing with hardware manufacturing, as I think there is value into getting specific devices for listening to music, taking notes, etc. Using a smartphone is like opening up a candy box, and kills much of the joy and appreciation for what we do on it. My first project is a music player. Making my first prototype with a 3d printer.
Aggregator for new posts in build threads from 277 old-school DIY forums.
Build threads of people building cars, 4x4s, motorcycles, boats, airplanes, hot rods, musical instruments, etc.
Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago [-]
Ohh this is the type of stuff that interests me although I am not a car fan but I like what you are doing with the aggregation/old-school DIY forums.
Good luck with your build and perhaps I might get interested in future too as I did once have a thought that having a custom car to me would reflect more cool-ness than an expensive one. I am really interested by small cars, perhaps retro. I imagine my favourite car to be somewhat like the car that Ryan gosling drives in La La Land.
but a cool project nonetheless, certainly thinking about it inspires a bit of car enthusiasm within me even though I am not that much of a car fan so much right now so a really cool project if it can help more people feel this spirit. good luck :-D
I have a question but how does building new (retro-inspired?) cars go about in terms of pricing. I feel like they might be too costly to get custom-built and that If I really ever in my life go about doing this, I would prefer DIY but I still imagine that it might be too expensive or hard to make a car. Are there any go-to cars which are easy/recommended within this space and how does it compare off economically and what are the technical expertise that you require with this type of stuff?
Once again, I wish ya good luck in the project and would love to hear your answers for some of the questions I have!
winterbourne 2 days ago [-]
Thanks; much appreciated. I picked up an endless list of new build interests in starting the site and exploring different niche forums. Turns out I really like wooden boat builds, cyclekarts, intricate custom knives, handmade violins, the list goes on...
You're right that getting a car custom-built is where the costs add up quickly; easily north of $50K. Most of the cost is labor, which is $0 if you do it yourself. Some of the projects are much easier than others. If you want to fall down a rabbit hole, look in the kit car and hot rod categories; lots of affordable and small builds in there. The Buick Riviera in La La Land is more of a resto-mod cruiser project, but the small/retro itch is exactly what the kit car category scratches. The first step is to find a forum where people are building the car you like, and start following related build threads. That's the majority of my social media intake these days.
Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago [-]
Thanks I appreciate your comment. I don't think that I might be that interested in car building right now but thanks for your pointers!
Speaking of which, I had made something at https://mirror.forum which revolved around forums and their ability to create communities on open source discord alternatives and it was always intended to revolve around forums/communities.
Feel free to check out my website for understanding what I might be talking about but I would be really interested in perhaps having the list of forums on my website so that people can search them through.
Do you have a list of forum websites that you used for your website or any resources pointing to that, I really like what you are doing and after thinking for sometime I think that it could be cool if I could use my application to point out to original OG forums as well. I would be curious to know what you think!
lemming 2 days ago [-]
This is amazing! Very refreshing in the age of AI to see so much manual building going on. Sadly I don’t have much time myself but I have several friends who would love this, I’ll pass it on to them.
winterbourne 2 days ago [-]
Thanks, that means a lot. I've found that browsing through a few dozen build threads is the perfect cure for the AI blues.
Cyberdogs7 2 days ago [-]
I built a fully locally hosted language learner app. It build language lessons based on a 4 year college curriculum, using a local LLM, Qwen TTS, local STT, and comfyUI image gen. I formulates themed lessons, around 'interesting' stories, generates dialogue, images, audio, quizzes, and pronunciation tests. Each lessons progress is tracked and new lessons are generated daily to reinforce concepts and extend past lesson story lines.
Overall it acts like a 'Choose your own adventure' book, but you learn while doing it. Currently supports Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Runs on a 4060 16GB card.
sureMan6 2 days ago [-]
Gonna try to monetise it or open source it?
Cyberdogs7 2 days ago [-]
Right now it's just a personal project. Will see if it actually helps me remember my Spanish, then I might release it.
winding 19 hours ago [-]
I have been wanting to bring AI to my data for years while keeping it private. Finally in the last month I have been pushing on https://millfolio.app, a limited demo available here https://demo.millfolio.app.
rambleraptor 2 days ago [-]
I’m working on [Homestead](https://myhomestead.dev), which is my OSS solution for building personal apps. You can build web-apps and Homestead will handle backend, agent support, authentication, notifications, and a bunch of other stuff.
I’ve used it to build a grocery store list, credit card perk tracker, address book, mini-golf scorecard app, and a bunch more. It’s really helped having all of the “platform” stuff handled for me so I can just focus on the app.
Ductapemaster 1 days ago [-]
This is cool! I have recently been building a "life admin" system that is focused around keeping track of bills and insurance reimbursements, and I am currently extending it to support a recipe database. My data model is markdown + CSV, but it has reached a point where a real database would be helpful. I'll check this out as it may be a good migration. Thanks for sharing.
jerrac 1 days ago [-]
@rambleraptor, I haven't actually tried to do anything with your solution. It looks like you've put a good amount of work into it, enough that it works for you and you're willing to share. That's more than I can say about my similar ideas. So don't take the following as anything negative. It's actually more a self-critique than anything else...
Ok, so, how many of us see something like this, and instantly just want to do it ourselves in our own way? I've seen at least 5 different versions of a "self-hosting platform" make their way on HN, sometimes more than once, but every time I really look at them, they just don't fit quite right, and often end up abandoned a while later. I've tried to make my own, and never have gotten anywhere worth sharing, and the couple times I've tried what others have made, I haven't been able to do what I want.
I mean the idea is really good. Make it easy to host apps for yourself and your family. But it seems like we're all more interested in building the platform than actually picking one, or two, platforms and turning them into something sustainable...
Anyway, what would it take for you to actually use something like this that someone else built?
Or am I just dealing with a bad case of not-invented-here?
cloudpilot 1 days ago [-]
I built a tool that auto-suspends idle AWS instances and tracks the savings
No buzzwords. No "AI." Just what it does.
tracerbulletx 2 days ago [-]
Self hosted media platform with similarity search, face search and clustering, a great fun media player with shuffle, VS mode where you rank your media resulting in an elo, remote access to app over the web, a TikTok style "swipe" mode of your own media. Started as just a good media viewer over 5 years ago but I just keep adding things. Has a small patreon following so people seem to like it. https://lowkeyviewer.com/
I've had a lot of side projects but I'm finally actually finishing some, and it's sort of useful so that's fun. Wanted to make it easy to see the difference between the Xbox Gamepass tiers, maybe you only need essential or premium - saving a few bucks. With Claude it's been pretty fun to add new features. Since there's no API for Leaving Soon I built a scraper, content gets parsed through an LLM call and matched to games. There's a swipe mechanism to favorite or trash games, so you comparison doesn't get cluttered up by fifa's or cod's. It's just been a fun playground, I host it on https://gamepass.fyi
tern 2 days ago [-]
1. A compiler for real-time tensor processing (arbitrary DSP, ML). In something like LISP or Haskell, the goal is to compile lambda calculus for fast/reliable execution—as such, you can express a program in a fully general language that can represent any computation and execute it without explicitly modeling the lower levels of the machine. I'm building a compiler that does the same thing for the subset of programs that are guaranteed to execute on-budget. The effect: you write code that looks like DSP/ML math and it compiles/runs optimally with execution guaranteed by construction.
2. My take on an agent framework ... append only log + content hypergraph in Elixir, tools that regularly pull data from other services into Postgres—built as a kind of 'exoskeleton' around claude/codex so it's not competing with fast-moving tools.
* A simple exercise tracker that my wife requested from me (https://daily-menu.hosgeldin.click/) - later I will build a menstruation tracker that is connected to the Daily Menu.
* My magnum opus, "MyApps" (https://myapps.ideasofhakki.com/) - This is no less than an OS running in your browser, equipped with whatever "Apps" written in it. I am building it with GunDB and Svelte and foundationally it will be a web of apps running completely in your device (i.e. offline first), with privacy and data security built-in.
Spotted a gap at my current company wherein a relatively simple access request (to say, Lovable, Claude or WorkOS) would end up being a dependency on the leadership for 1-2 days, Large corps solve this by deploying a full on HRMS solution, or something like ServiceNow, Azure AD -- but this requires navigating enterprise contracts not only with the HRMS but also every service you use.
I am building an agentic access management platform, where you can simply say "Hey, could you give James access to WorkOS until today?" from any LLM surface (Claude Code, ChatGPT), the platform goes ahead and checks what kind of access SHOULD James have given his department, and role (Product, PM? Viewer; Engineering, SDE-1? Developer; Engineering, SDE-3? Admin) and provides it within an hour. I could speak a lot more about custom policies, roles etc but that's the direction I am taking my product. Working towards a simple phase 1 to deploy at my company.
alance 22 hours ago [-]
Did you take a look at one of the chat-based queuing platforms, something like https://dibsonstuff.com people seem to use it for taking turns with servers, but it sounds a bit like it might work for your use-case too.
podviaznikov 2 days ago [-]
I am working on native macos editor that can natively read and write to/from apple notes, reminders and calendar - not via applescript - like proper full features support.
and bidirectional markdown sync for all those apple tools
This is a Chrome extension that records lots of details in a usage session. Stuff like network calls, console logs, screenshots and also optionally screenshots and user narration
Tools like this exist, but every one I tried is uploading the session details somewhere in their cloud and try to monetize this.
So I built the version I wanted: free, open source, and local. There is no account, no backend, no telemetry. Sessions live in IndexedDB in your browser and exported as a zip.
What it records:
* Clicks, typing, page changes, network requests and responses, console errors screenshots, video with sound
* Your voice, transcribed and placed next to what you were doing at the time
* Annotations: Arrows and boxes you draw on the page's screenshot
Note: Passwords, auth headers, and tokens are masked at capture time
All events are lined up in a timeline with timestamps
At export you pick a detail level with a live token estimate, so a long session still fits your model's context window.
Working on the feedback I received for diffy after launching it here and on Peerlist.
diffy makes reviewing GitHub PRs easier, especially the large ones where GitHub starts freezing and memory usage spikes. I'm using Pierre's Diffs and Trees for rendering the diff and file-tree. Under 2MB, you get 50+ themes, split/side-by-side view, comments, review flow, syntax highlighting for 100+ languages and much more.
It was my first time launching a tool publicly, so it's been a great experience. The feedback so far has been incredibly helpful, and I'm using it to keep improving the product.
Just published the first version of cardspark_ui [1], a library of polished, themable UI components for TCG apps. Kind of like shadcn for pokémon cards
I worked at a startup [2] building in the space for a few years and it reignited my childhood love for collecting and trading, and turned me on to the software side of the industry.
We're in a little golden age of DIY collecting tools now, but most hobbyists and sellers don't have a design background and get stuck recreating the same primitives (badly).
I spent a lot of time thinking about them, so I'm packaging them up and offering them for free. This first release has the basics (cards, grids, stacks, filters, value charts, detail pages), with more coming soon.
Triply periodic minimal surfaces are the golden standard in thermal management, acoustics, and even medical applications. But minimality itself doesn't contribute much to practicality. We use them because they are simply studied better than the non-minimal surfaces.
So I'm studying the non-minimals. They are much more governable, what I link to is a demo of a surface builder with two levels of control. Next, they are conjugatable including conjugations with different period of self (that will be the following paper), they generalize nicely to non-periodic or partially periodic surfaces, and they work in other space configurations. E. g. I'm now playing with bi-periodic curves that cover the 2D space with self-replicating hexagons.
If all that I'm experimenting on today in 2D will turn out well in 3D too, we'll have a whole new direction in implicit modeling.
hexmiles 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on TTZ, a sort of, pardon the expression, next-gen terminal protocol.
I wanted a middle ground between web apps and Terminal UI that allows for things like raster images, vector graphics, simple audio support and file transfer; to let me move more apps and workflows from web apps to a lighter experience.
I have an old laptop that I love and is very nice to use, but since it has only 2 GB of RAM, using multiple web apps is out of the question. I live on the terminal and SSH, but it has its own limitations, like spotty support for images, no audio at all, and ReGis (for vector graphics) support is not available in a lot of terminals.
I've recently finished implementing both client and server libraries for multiple languages (with the help of AI), and right now I'm in the process of fully testing and squashing all bugs and inconsistencies. Next, I will port a couple of applications as a proof of concept.
I plan to publish the source code very soon to receive feedback.
interfeco 2 days ago [-]
My passion project is an LP-sleeve-sized music streamer built around an ARM compute module, a custom PCB carrier board and an industrial 17" square display.
This is a really cool idea. Been thinking of a way to introduce my daughter to my old LPs without her wrecking the vinyl, and this might be a good compromise!
Part of my job is to approve / reject MCP servers based on how secure they are and whether they are suitable for use in an enterprise environment. I was tired of my team being called the bottleneck to AI adoption, so I set out to automate the whole process.
I periodically collect the MCP servers and every new version from the Official MCP registry and assign them a score based on 29 distinct criteria like runtime guardrails (e.g. destructive tools, over broad permissions, rug pulls), SAST scans and transport & trust model.
As a result of this exercise, I found that 1 in every 10 MCP servers is pretty much unusable (score 40/100 or below). 18% of the popular MCP servers with 1000+ GitHub stars contain one or more security issues. 184 servers to date have changed their tool definitions after publication, which may indicate a "rug pull" attack.
I built this for security minded people who also want to be at the forefront of AI adoption and for security teams who are tired to be called the bottleneck.
Browsing the index is completely free, you only have to request an API key if you want automated, programmatic lookups for any workflow.
The main reason is because I wanted a privacy-preserving way to access my email without using ChatGPT or Claude or another hosted email connector. Also, this supports connecting multiple accounts, even multiple accounts from different email providers, with a unified API. And you can use it with any AI agent, even one you build yourself.
It supports Gmail API and IMAP/SMTP right now, with Outlook / Microsoft Graph coming soon.
BorisMelnik 2 days ago [-]
very cool, I dont think email is going anywhere. im going to give it a try. im working on a tool for myself that scores emails with custom labels, auto-unsubscribes, report+block+filter anyone that doesn't respect unsubscribe
RichardChu 2 days ago [-]
Awesome! Let me know if you have any feedback.
tonymet 2 days ago [-]
Really great idea. What are some of the access controls available
RichardChu 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! I'm planning on supporting a granular permission system, so per account you should be able to customize which tools it should be able to use (e.g. readonly, read+write including drafts (but no send), or full access).
You should be able to customize the permissions per API key as well, so if there's a case where you want to write or send something just one time then you can just swap in the API key and do that and swap back if you want to.
There will also be a dashboard (in addition to the CLI) so that you can easily audit everything that has happened in the system.
tonymet 1 days ago [-]
for that sort a tool it would be nice to restrict access to specific labels , or API query patterns.
RichardChu 1 days ago [-]
What's the use case for doing that, just wondering?
sissons96 2 days ago [-]
Working on AutoFlow - a chrome extension that lets you record yourself using your app and then automatically generates user guides that you can publish instantly to a user-facing product knowledge base.
Started in response to challenges I encountered at my last job in setting up and maintaining a full set of user guides for our SaaS product. Target users are SaaS founders, product manager, developers, indiehackers etc.
ryanchants 2 days ago [-]
Still working on Study Engine and Nomnominees(more or less done for now).
StudyEngine is a webapp I'm using while doing my masters in comp sci. I upload lecture notes, textbooks, papers, etc. It then extracts topics and tracks my mastery of them over time. It uses an LLM to generate questions and flash cards. It loops in some newer learning science ideas. It tests recognition first(multiple choice), and then once a level of mastery is matched, it switches to recall. Working on adding RAG to it, so I can surface where in the source material something can be reviewed when going over quiz results. Currently just for me an some friends. If can get a good eval set up, I might work on optimizing cost and seeing if it could be opened up.
NomNominees is simple webapp that tracks James Beard, Great American Beer Festival, Festival of Barrel Aged Beers, and other awards. I use it when I'm traveling to find places to check out. Even just a cluster on a map shows me neighborhoods I might want to check out.
When working on our startup Stacktape, we were struggling a lot to keep our public technical documentation up to date. AI didn't really help - correcting its mistakes was as hard as writing it ourselves. But then, we came up with an idea how we could do it reliably - https://docstube.dev
docstube generates documentation from your codebase, fact-checks every claim against the source, writes it for the people actually reading it, and keeps it in sync as your code changes. What sets it apart from other such tools is its advanced verification engine (validates both deterministically and using AI agents). So you can actually trust the outcome.
It's currently in private alpha, and not ready for testing. Public launch is planned for first half of 08/2026.
Vyramach 2 days ago [-]
In my free time, I'm building an iPad game to help Autistic kids practice real world skills in a virtual town - https://pocketown.app/
dvorka 2 days ago [-]
Enjoying the work on MyTraL - sovereign athlete / personal training log: https://mytral.fitness/
I went on sabbatical to fulfill my dream project - consolidating years of training logs. I'm enjoying the technical challenges involved - digitizing paper hand written logs / visual models, navigating the maze of athletic metrics with their crazy trademarked names and multidimensional models. Having fun building AI coaches: agents ranging in character from Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday to the coach from my teenage years, utilizing ICL model-based predictions, ... and more.
The best part is the rush of memories while ingesting my own history - photos and recordings I completely forgot, as well as navigating data shared by friends.
This month has Strava & LeCol everesting challenge - signed up and added support that suits my needs to MyTraL. Good times.
enraged_camel 2 days ago [-]
I've been climbing for a decade, but over the past 3 years I've put on a bunch of weight due to work and certain life events. But I want to change that.
I know what motivates me: seeing progress. The feedback loop of "do X, see Y gain" is what keeps me going.
So I started building an integrated dashboard that can aggregate data from multiple systems:
- My digital scale
- Apple Watch (sleep + running performance)
- Beastmaker Motherboard, which is an electronic board that you attach a hangboard to and it shows you various stats like how much force you're applying
The idea is that every morning I'll open the dashboard and be able to see exactly how much progress I've made the previous day: weight loss, strength gain, cardio performance.
It's an interesting problem. There's essentially two parts to it: Apple Health, which aggregates data from the scale and the Apple Watch and can POST-export it hourly, and the electronic board, which sends data via BLE in real time. The destination for both of these will probably be an always-on Raspberry Pi 5, but I haven't decided yet. Then I'll have a small server app that can pull the data from the Pi and draw some fancy charts.
botulidze 2 days ago [-]
I've been working on a similar concept (aggregate health data from multiple sources) but on a wider scale:
1) annual bloodwork as part of my annual preventive care;
2) InBody measurements, including grip strength;
3) quality of air in my region;
4) Apple Watch but mainly for steps, sleep data and resting heart rate;
5) allergy panel or minerals/vitamins screen plus something nutrition-related along those lines (TBD).
The idea is to see trends and try to apply AI for correlating, at the first glance, completely unrelated data layers. Example how I'm thinking about this one: there's somewhat clear correlation that I sleep better when I do above average steps per day. How is my sleep quality affected if, let's say, I did above avg steps with a bad air quality at that time? (i.e. wild fires / pollen season / etc.)
I've built a Go application to ingest those data sources and currently finishing my first import use case - Apple Watch data.
Would be happy to connect and chat about this.
sequoia-semp 2 days ago [-]
I'm a physician, and I'm extracting data from Apple Health and using what exists with solid and sound evidence to analyze sleep. Personal project it would be great to connect with both of you.
kaizenb 2 days ago [-]
Working on Bookmarker, released for Mac.
Your library. On your Mac.
Links, images, PDFs, sorted by on-device AI. (Apple foundation models)
Local. Private. Fast.
One time payment.
No subscription.
Software is yours forever.
As it should be.
https://porchweather.com/ - free app for notifying you when the weather is right for opening your windows. The idea is to save you a few bucks on using air conditioning as well as simply enjoying some fresh air.
Tracks temp, humidity, wind speed, and precip chance and you set the parameters.
Notifications are currently email and web push. SMS is too expensive to run as a free service. I think the next direction is probably an app, as web push support in iOS is not great.
sameersegal 2 days ago [-]
I am helping a not-for-profit, [NavSahyog](https://navsahyog.org/), build a custom software for their entire operations and programs that also tracks longitudinal impact. The organization conducts programs for children in Indian villages after school to build live skills.
This is my second iteration because the first version felt like a simplistic fit and improvement over their existing vendor provided app.
I have now designed a domain model based on my understanding and observations. I have a day job so I can't spend a lot of time in sync with the team. I have created a web app where the NGO management can test scenarios (by recording voice), and the AI (Claude Agent SDK) runs it past the domain model. In case, there is a gap, they can persist the scenario. After every iteration, I read through the scenarios and assimilate them into the domain model.
momentmaker 2 days ago [-]
I've just finished this chrome extension recently: https://ypuf.com/
It helps me to automatically save a tab that's not been used in a while so it auto-closes it but saves it as well as having the ability to snooze a tab like how you'd do it in gmail.
Everything is locally stored with 100% privacy in mind.
And vim like navigation is natively done.
exogenousdata 13 hours ago [-]
Great idea! Going to give this a try. It perfectly explains how I'd like the experience to be. As opposed to my haphazard txt files with old tab links that I corral every so often. And vim-like navigation is just a chef's kiss!
brown_munda 2 days ago [-]
Working on gisti.ai which eventually will be a fleet of Product and Customer Operations AI agents that continuously analyze customer interactions, identify the churn risk and automatically route the right actions: code fixes to engineering, product insights to PMs, and operational tasks to customer operations.
Today, Gisti ingests customer feedback from every channel your customers already use, synthesizes it into a prioritized, evidence-backed list of opportunities, and lets product teams interact with an AI agent to explore, validate, and act on each one. We are building Gisti with a philosophy of complete automation for specific workflows.
We are looking for Design Partners, please hit me up at shubham@gisti.ai. I will be in SF late August if you prefer in-person meetings.
Please ping me / email me if you are interested in a demo / demo account for deeper analysis.
SPascareli13 2 days ago [-]
Just trying to learn C again, making things from scratch in a multiplatform way, interfacing with X11 on Linux and wasm on the browser.
It's been fun dealing with memory and C's weird design in this age of agentic coding.
cloudcanalx 1 days ago [-]
Outside of my day job, I've been building a few small SaaS tools. The biggest change AI has brought for me isn't that it does the work for me—it has dramatically reduced the implementation cost. The hard part is still figuring out what to build.
Most of these projects come directly from problems I run into.
One example is cloud cost management. There are plenty of dashboards that show where your cloud bill goes, but I haven't found one that actively points out the small, easy-to-miss services that quietly charge you month after month. Each charge is tiny, so nobody notices, but over a long period they add up.
Since I work in the data infrastructure space, I also built a tool that helps people install and configure databases. Setting up a database still involves a surprising amount of manual work, and I wanted something that made it much more straightforward.
Another project comes from my appreciation for GitHub Actions. I like the workflow, but much of our code isn't hosted on GitHub, and our deployment environments are all different. So I started building an offline CI/CD system. It can package code, copy artifacts, deploy them, run validation, and execute AI-generated deployment scripts. As long as your code lives in a Git repository and the target machine is reachable over the network, it works regardless of where the Git server is hosted.
All of these tools run on top of a backend platform I call *MotherBoard*, which provides the common pieces: authentication and SSO, metering and billing, products, subscription plans, and other shared services.
I've noticed that almost everything I build starts with a problem I personally encounter. In the past, I'd think, "That would be nice to have," and stop there because building it would take too much time. Now the implementation cost is low enough that I can actually build it. And if it turns out other people have the same problem, maybe it'll make a little money too.
Yajirobe 1 days ago [-]
AI comment ahh moment
cloudcanalx 6 hours ago [-]
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haywire93 2 days ago [-]
My team participates in a World Cup prediction league, I don’t really know much about football teams but figured I’d build a prediction model to try and top the charts. Uses a Poisson distribution model and Monte Carlo simulations. I wrote up the process and the maths as well as generated some inline SVGs (no chart library). Next working on whether Dixon-Coles low scoring correction would have had an impact on the outcome and in which direction. Link to the write up if anyone is interested:
https://haywire.blog/posts/i-built-a-robot-instead-of-having...
silksowed 1 days ago [-]
Flying drones with natural language input instead of remote controllers. Instead of having a human on the control sticks the entire time, what if they could describe the goal they are trying to achieve, and then the drone goes and flies according to the agreed intent? I know traditional drones already have autopilots, but they seem to be static pre-planned routes and could benefit from advancing the capability to be more dynamic and flexible. Eventually I want to combine a live camera stream to run a local vision model that would identify and notify images of interest the drone sees while flying. From there the operator can decide if they want to re-task the mission or adjust as needed. That is the general technology direction, but I hope to expand this into the wildland firefighting vertical. Instead of putting humans up in helicopters and fixed wing aircraft, I hope we can leverage drones instead. I understand not every use case will be able to replace with a drone, but enough of them could be to make it worthwhile in my opinion. Still early days of research and development, but super excited about the tech and combining AI + robots for the common good. Currently a huge fan of the startup Seneca, and hope to help expand the industry or join them.
1) I recently published my latest milestone here: jakedecamp.com
emehex 2 days ago [-]
A daily meditation "instrument". I'm a big fan of Waking Up but I've kinda outgrown the catalogue. I know what to do now. I just need a timer and a couple of prompts...
robe356 13 hours ago [-]
I'm working on a job website for those who want to move to and move within Europe. Focused on developers of cloud services and ai. Rather than just be a generic job board I want to focus on the human elements of what it's like to actually live in different countries and focus on the people element of life abroad.
jefc1111 2 days ago [-]
I'm making a midi clock -> dual tap tempo device (I'm calling it the Twin tap tempo toy, or Tttt). It's based on an Arduino Esplora linked to a dual channel optocoupler / relay.
I'm building it because I have an analogue delay and an an analogue tremolo which each take tap tempo input I want to be able to slave them simultaneously to my DAW (Reaper). I could only find one product (Disaster Area Designs micro.clock) which seems to readily do what I want, and it is hard to find and expensive.
The software side has been pretty easy for me, now I am just troubleshooting the Arduino -> relay connection as currently it is not behaving.
I'll probably sling the code and other docs on Github at some point :)
brynet 2 days ago [-]
Making rent as an open source developer.
Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?
Still working on https://cloudywithachanceoflatency.net/ (and looking for beta testers actually, especially if you are interrested in trying the MCP server for your SRE agents).
Also working on my very own MCP proxy, since working on the previous project gave me a few ideas; will hopefully be able to give more details in a month or so.
czottmann 2 days ago [-]
https://actions.work/listening-post - Listening Post is my macOS multi-scrobbler that works with Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Rocksky, Maloja, Shortcuts, social posting, etc., independent from Spotify or Apple Music. The app can also scrobble shazams (music recognitions) from iPhone and Apple Watch, without the need for an extra app.
Basically, I built the scrobbler of my dreams. I love it to bits! I'm a professional software engineer for ~27 years by now but I only now got around to building that thing. :)
MbappeSpecial 2 days ago [-]
Kind of tangent of what everyone else is doing but making a minifigure/garage kit painting site.
If you're in the hobby, the issue is that keeping track of paint and color combinations is annoying and is very mind numbing since wet paint color differs from dry point colors, how colors combine due to transparency of the layers, and different companies have different binders/pigments.
Currently have the paint combination setup and trying to get minifigure gaussian splatting setup from an image (Used to work in gaussian splatting for a while and actually figured out how to improve vggt to get a better one-shot)
I've just released in beta, a web-based application called Verse Draft: https://versedraft.com
I wanted to create an all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for an entire universe in one place while crafting stories, novels, movie scripts, TV series, or stage plays.
I also wanted the ability to allow for the limited use of AI in a way that only functions as a sounding board and does not write for the user; Where fiction writers could have access to tools such as a virtual assistant that they can converse with about their stories and world-building, but without it writing anything for them.
There is also an option to use the application without any AI tools at all.
zandermax 2 days ago [-]
Very cool. On another note I think this would be amazing to have for fans, and markedly better than what we have now (wikis). Maybe you could have some of the features available for fan communities.
Currently in the early access and bootstrapping phase, the system is meant to help you find which event you can go next and also plan your whole season, organize your calendar, link up with your friends, track your progress as a rider, and see where you stand on the global rankings and between your buddies.
There are more ideas than time to implement them as this is purely a hobby project, but doing my best as I go along. Planning to start advertising it a little bit in relevant groups in the coming weeks.
Automated network port change detection. Scan17 provides a solution to the question:
So your CTO decides to outsource firewall management - and the vendor carelessly leaves a network port open, exposing your production database. How does your team find out before an attacker?
Think of it as nmap port scan diff-ing. If a network port goes from closed to open you get an email or webhook alert. There is a REST API for automated workflows and privately hosted engines will be supported for some plans. There is a wait-list form on the website if you want to stay in the loop.
If you work in infosec / cyber security and are interested in being an early product designer / beta tester, let's chat! See my profile for how to get in touch.
prohobo 1 days ago [-]
Bringing model-driven development to coding agents with a desktop tool called Scryer:
It's still pretty experimental, but I think now that AI can feasibly generate code from intent/specs it's worth doing... especially with how much vibe coding is both a blessing and a curse.
Basically, what if we took those markdown specs everyone likes using and systematized them into a model graph, anchored claims to code, then represented that as a wiki? And what if we surfaced a planned change to a codebase as a diff of the definition of that model? You can then properly keep track of what gets implemented and how, because you're no longer reading an essay from the agent as a plan, you see a complete diff of everything it plans to do.
I've been using it myself for work, but it'd be nice to get some feedback from other people's perspectives.
realrocker 2 days ago [-]
I am working on speeding up the review-refine loop of LLM generated artefacts between me and the LLM. i run my coding agent (claude code) in auto / full-permission mode, so it doesn’t stop for accept/reject — by the time it’s done i’ve got a pile of generated code, docs, sometimes ui to review. and the slow part for me is to refine it before push it to remote. i would copy-paste snippets to point at what i wanted changed, screenshot the ui, describe where the problem was in prose, one message at a time. its cumbersome.
so i built prereview to speed up that review-fix loop. you run it in your repo (or point it at a file, a dir, or a running dev server), click what’s wrong: a diff line, a markdown/html block, a region of an image, a box on a live site — and leave a comment. the comments go to a csv, your agent reads it and fixes things and tells you what it did via a comment or even posts suggestions which you can accept or reject. it ships with a claude code skill, but the handoff to llm is just an open csv protocol, so any llm cli can drive it.
stuff that might interest people here: single static go binary, fully offline; it reviews docs/images/live ui as well as code; comments re-anchor when the file changes under them.
it’s mit and still early but I use it everyday. Its here: https://github.com/livetemplate/prereview
On-demand, procedural audio programs (w/LLMs). I’m working to make these embeddable in software such as games and health/wellness apps.
Would love to hear how developers might use it.
jamilton 2 days ago [-]
I don't hear anything from the examples in Firefox or Chrome, on Windows 10.
tspng 2 days ago [-]
I had to turn down uBlock Origin filter mode, then it worked for me.
osetinsky 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for the heads up. Working on a fix!
montag 2 days ago [-]
Wow, that’s neat. Perfect for a hyperlight drifter style game.
5ersi 18 hours ago [-]
UltimaDB, a high performance full-featured MVCC transactional embedded database, with special focus for use on SMR clusters.
UDB has full transactions, selectable persistence (in-memory, eventual, strict) and consistency (SI, SSI). A lot of time was spent on performance.
Written in Rust, with 8k line of code and 15k lines of tests, 96% coverage.
Formal verification with Lean 4 is in progress (see /formal), also consistency checking with elle/jepsen is in progress.
winash83 2 days ago [-]
Currently working on
Agentry(https://agentry.run/)
Runtime, connection, and deploy layer for building internal apps and automations with AI. You can build anything that you can build with Lovable, Replit etc. Your model, Your harness and your own Laptop/Server
And not an arcade game, but a multi-player throwback to a multiplayer shooter game my team used to play called nSnipes: https://github.com/linsomniac/isnipes
iSnipes does require downloading and running a server, the others you just play on the web.
iceboy 23 hours ago [-]
Wanted to make my life easier as an principal hardware engineer so I would better know about the components that I choose to use in my project.
As I develop something for 10+ years, I need to know when the manufacturer posts errata about it or the component lifecycle is nearing its end.
I have made it simple so I can upload my BOMs and know immediately about the components.
There´s of course a lot of work needed to be done and everything is inefficient but we can already use it in our company, it already has saved us a lot of time and money.
Its called semiconductor.review6 <- 6 added to prevent bots.
pacifi30 2 days ago [-]
I am working on hammer https://thehammer.io/ , it is a voice device that I have build and have been using for past several months for texting and getting answers to my questions via AI chatbots.
I started with the idea of replacing my phone with a texting device that can still keep me connected but realized phone has became utilitarian that it is not possible to replace it.
I still have to take my phone when I am outside but when I am home or at work, I now use hammer exclusively to text or to get answers. The most benefit I have got is that I don’t have the urge to open my phone and go on endless scrolling binge.
zandermax 2 days ago [-]
What's the AI chat connect to?
pacifi30 1 days ago [-]
Groq free tier , basic question and answers.
thematrixadmin 2 days ago [-]
What if somebody sends you a picture of gif?
pacifi30 2 days ago [-]
It shows pictures , has a lcd
TheBestTvarynka 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on the Obsidian plugin for building and rendering family graphs [1]. I started my own genealogy research in 2025 and did not want to store data on a 3rd-party platform. Obsidian was a great decision. The only thing I needed is a tree (graph) viewer for family members relationships (something like myheritage.com has). So, I built my own with a lot of interactivity on top.
I am working on building an self-improving QA agent for software teams. Free and open-source.
It is an agentic testing harness with batteries, includes the test runner infra (web & mobile), memory (vector store, local embedding model powered by transformers.js, self improving loop, issue reporting.
More details - https://vostride.ai |
Code - https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa
zamesin 2 days ago [-]
I've been working on Next Move Theory for the last 8 years.
Next Move Theory is a methodology with a step-by-step algorithm for every product decision. It lays out every tactical and strategic move open to you and helps you choose the best, with the odds on your side. The foundations are open and free. AI skills run it on your product.
Dozens of cases in my home country, zero presence in the US — now I'm working to make founders and PMs in the US aware of it.
Your website seems like a lot of fluff without actually giving me a concrete example on what Next Move Theory is, just my experience from glancing at it
It's a little webapp that solved a problem I had when ordering PCBs: I was too cheap to buy the stencil when ordering the PCBs from China, but then I regretted it when I had to paste by hand. Because of this, I did the PCB Designer -> DXF -> CAD -> Add margin -> Add outline -> Print workflow by hand, but that became very tedious, so I built this to automate it.
It runs entirely on your local machine and it is hosted on Cloudflare pages, with the only costs for me being a domain name.
diseasedyak 2 days ago [-]
I've been working on a home Hermes setup that I'm using to do a variety of things. So far, here's what I've done:
- Set up an in-house alternative to my Ring subscription for the cameras around my house. So far I have it real-time monitoring, complete with AI face recognition and interpretation of events, all on an internal web page. It also sends me alerts via Telegram.
- Set up a blog that I'm using to catalog these experiences with Hermes and AI in general
- Started working with multiple agents to do things when appropriate. My main model right now is glm-5.2 for cloud, and Qwen3.6b-IQ4 (4-bit quantized) running locally. It only takes 18GB of VRAM on my 4090, so I have plenty of overhead. I'm also using Hindsight instead of the MEMORY.md that Hermes natively uses.
- Setup local image generation, with the local Qwen model, using ComfyUI w/Flux.
- All of the above isn't including the numerous smaller jobs (like setting up Telegram, setting up automated cloud backups, troubleshooting Linux issues, etc) that I've been using Hermes for.
Future plans: I'm working on making a game with Godot, learning as I go. I haven't had Hermes do anything for that, and I don't want to really, except I may use local image gen for testing purposes, as I plan to engage an artist for any graphical work in the final product.
I'm doing all of this just a learning experience. It's been really fun so far.
alpn 2 days ago [-]
I continue working on https://wireplug.org: A simple, free, and open source connectivity coordinator for WireGuard. Basically a way to keep WireGuard tunnels connected while moving between different access points. It handles (basic) NAT traversal and works with the in-kernel WireGuard driver on Linux and OpenBSD. You can find the technical details at https://wireplug.org
jingpostmedia 2 days ago [-]
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Echo4309 2 days ago [-]
This month has mostly been personal website. Serious warning - style is an HN ripoff atm, forgive me in advance. Will change in the future to something original or minimal.
Project I've got in progress is a migration of the old DIKU mud engine from C to Rust and making a Moog Model D synth recreation in rust with a JS wrapper.
jamilton 2 days ago [-]
The slime art is nice. I watched it for a long time. It's neat how you can open any frame up as an image. The controls in the description didn't work though.
casper14 2 days ago [-]
Those are some fine drinks
ultrasandwich 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a tool to automatically sync your work-in-progress music from your DAW (digital audio workstation, like Ableton Live, etc), to your phone. Basically a workflow tool for musicians and producers! Also has some quick share/feedback functionality too. Would love some feedback since it's still in really early stages. Already integrates with Ableton, Bitwig, Cubase, and GarageBand. https://trackid.com.
I used to work at Native Instruments, and super happy to now work on something for myself instead.
mmarc 1 days ago [-]
Working on a macOS terminal because Ghostty is taking too long to add quick-terminal tabs which was my main workflow in iterm2.
All I wanted was cmd+space fullscreen quake-overlay with low input lag so I made it. It fits my workflow exactly so it might be a bit weird for someone else.
We are creating an AI for science and engineering: https://vicena.ai
It's connected to all papers of course, and all kinds of scientific simulators and specialised models. But I'm currently in Shanghai talking to labs to join a CloudLab (and hopefully setting up our own robotic labs), so that AI can actually order real physical experiments that are executed cheaply, efficiently and seamlessly as tool calls.
Through experiments like autoresearch we have seen that AI is already, if not always smarter, at least more systematic than humans at following the scientific method relentlessly (hypothesis-experiment loop). Let's see what we can do by connecting it to the real-world :)
purple-leafy 2 days ago [-]
My daily word game “Snibble” [0]
It’s basically snake meets scrabble meets PvP stealing. It’s a novel idea and I think it’s cool it hasn’t really been done before :)
The issue is it’s too complicated, the onboarding is dogwater, and the aesthetic is too complex
So I’ve spent the weekend fixing onboarding, fixing and relaxing the visuals mix and simplifying mechanics.
I’ve also tested LLMs playing the game through a harness I wrote. LLMs get smashed, they can form words and steal, but they lose badly to conventional bots.
I’ll be exposing an LLM leaderboard on my next release (hoping this weekend) with links to game replays for the LLMs.
Would love for people to give it a try, give me some feedback, and say what you’d love to see on the roadmap.
Created with a from scratch custom engine, pure typescript almost no dependencies
Completed games can be “replayed” and replays can fit in a QR code upto 30 minute games. So I think that’s pretty cool
cobbzilla 2 days ago [-]
Fun game! How do I “eat” on mobile? I tried tapping the # on the tail, to no avail
purple-leafy 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! Ha that’s the onboarding issue in play :( you’re actually meant to eat your tail by navigating your head to your tail
But everyone who has played has had the same feedback lol so that’s what I’ve been changing this weekend :)
Thanks heaps for trying it!
cobbzilla 2 days ago [-]
Oh got it. Very fun, great work.
purple-leafy 2 days ago [-]
Thank you so much :) hopefully the new build this weekend fixes the teething issues
piinecone 2 days ago [-]
I just started running sword combat playtests this weekend for my next game, Today I Will Destroy You, which is about a girl who goes looking for her sister.
Already learned that it gets way too hard too soon, so this week I'm adjusting the training and difficulty curve to avoid frustrating new players.
If you liked Sekiro, have a PC, and want to playtest, please get in touch!
jozomojo 2 days ago [-]
A backyard wildlife narration that takes video clips from different styles of cameras and turns it into a documentary style narration - https://everydayearth.ai.
It originated from a project with my son where we created a nesting box out of an old wooden shelf and added a camera on the inside to see what happens. It was taken over by a Screech Owl and it's been fun to see what happens in our backyard at night.
erikig 2 days ago [-]
I really like this although in my neighborhood it would just be lots of detailed reports of apathetic pigeons perching and pooping.
jozomojo 1 days ago [-]
The Secret Life of Pigeons is not very exciting.
teachrdan 1 days ago [-]
I made a fun app to share text information with your friends in a persistent, pretty format. You compose a text message, choose fonts and colors (or keep defaults), and save and/or share it via text message, etc. I realized after the fact I was basically recreating Instagram's text creation feature in Stories lol.
It's called "Hey Hannah" because it was inspired by my friend Hannah asking me for travel tips for her family's first trip to Japan. I had a few texts worth of thoughts I wanted to persist -- and prettify -- so I could share them with others in the future, too.
I personally find saving screenshots of text messages to be an unreasonably effective way of saving information. I can search by text in the Photos mobile app and share directly from there.
This was my first coding project with AI. I used Cursor and mostly Claude to write it. I had no mobile dev experience, but I did have 10 years of webdev experience, including five with React, so it was a relatively smooth process. I got a great feel for what to let Claude do and how to work around its limitations. For example, I made a secret expanded palette of background colors (and a slightly different secret palette for text), and Claude choked on sorting them by brightness -- so I made a test to check the outputs and then had Claude write a helper function to sort them client side. Good times.
I am officially converted to writing code with, at least, the assistance of LLMs. I'd love it if folks could download the app and give me any feedback they may have. It's open and free in all the ways and I collect no data!
I saw the options out there were not fully open source, or had other limitations so I started working on this better one.
Based on Debian, apps are docker containers.
I do work to adapt current open source apps, but it's so great to make them available as one click install.
I want to make it easy to run on a cloud VM or an old PC kept in the pantry.
There are so many cases for self-hosting now that we need to make it easier to do
chaffity 2 days ago [-]
I've been working on Source [1], an experimental Git server written in Go.
Source stores repositories in a database rather than a filesystem [2]. The primary goal is to rely on databases for durability, replication, and distribution, rather than introducing complex distributed filesystem infrastructure into the stack.
As someone who's constantly on the look for new music to discover and being very deliberate about the things I'm listening, I needed a better way to organize the albums I want to listen to, listened and liked. And also I would like to see the discoveries of other folks who I know I like.
I am working on an online Talmud to explore the old text in new ways! Its been a pet project of mine for over 4/5 years, and to my knowledge its the only attempt to blend the classic format of the text (Tzurat Hadaf) and AI enhanced commentaries sourced from the classical texts
Update: Hopefully this can help those who completely misunderstand the nuance of this ancient text (usually from antisemitism) to better understand what they are reading.
thoweck 2 days ago [-]
I’m working on https://gnooma.com, a lightweight tool for reducing knowledge drift in teams.
It introduces a new document type called a gnoom: a living document that knows who has read it. When the document changes, read confirmations reset, so you can see who is up to date.
I built it because important decisions kept getting buried in chats and then discussed all over again.
It’s a free beta and doesn’t require an email. Curious if anyone else has this problem. I’d also appreciate any feedback on Gnooma.
philote 2 days ago [-]
I'm getting out of my comfort zone (software) to work on a telepresence robot for my D&D games. My main motivator for this is that I'm often the only person remote for these sessions and it's difficult to hear just the DM talk when everyone else is talking. So I thought that having binaural audio would be helpful, and even moreso if the microphones can be aimed at the person talking. So, now I have some 3d printed pieces that fit together with a couple of servos that can turn the entire thing on a lazy susan base and also rotate the head up and down. My soldering skills suck, so I'm currently stalled while I figure out why the PWM controller isn't being seen after I rewired everything (in an attempt to clean up the cable mess). But, I have(had) gotten a Raspberry Pi set up and working with the servos and two microphones and once I get my issues sorted I can start playing more with the software for it.
leocrabe225 2 days ago [-]
I'm learning Rust, and a bit about audio processing: https://github.com/leocrabe225/audiodsp
Just before that I was learning TypeScript, and I'll be coming back to that project as it's quite the process.
I'm leaning heavy TDD and rely on the type systems a lot.
The project is called "Rentier", a joke about the Monopoly board game.
https://github.com/leocrabe225/rentier-rewrite
I finished part 1, with a postmortem.
Part 2 is React frontend.
Part 3 is implement the postmortem findings in the TS engine.
Part 4 is update the React frontend for the updated engine.
Part 5 is make the engine in Rust from scratch.
Part 6 is point the React frontend to Rust engine, and praise the pros of having a good architecture.
Kind of an ode to clean code if you will (Many things to learn along the way).
I am working on this Review Flow. An extention for Cursor / VScode to enable IDE as first class for code reviews.
It came from a frustration that I needed to switch between the browser and the IDE to navigate through the code and leaving comments on Gitlab at the company.
So I thought it could useful to create something and let it be accessible to the public as open source.
It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the changes into entities and sorts based on what has the most dependencies. This tends to put the most important functions first. Plus I can click through the dependencies for each function and mark things as reviewed as I’m reading them. It’s a big improvement over the GitHub review flow for me at least.
deanalyzer 2 days ago [-]
this looks incredibly useful! I've also run into similar problems with code review and been building similar tooling with the same idea (reconstructing the changes into entities, and finding focal/important changes), but haven't gone as far as this.
thomas_housecat 1 days ago [-]
I got so frustrated with all of the busywork that was building up in my email inbox that I built something better.
Housecat is the first email inbox that helps you get real work done. Our email connects to the other services you actually use like your Claude, Notion, Slack, CRM and Github and makes it easy to send messages and data between them. So if you need to update the CRM with a new lead, track a Github issue or ask a question of a colleague in Slack, you can do it all from right inside of your inbox. We just launched the email app in private beta.
I've been working on a Ebook reader called WizRead with a friend for 2+ years now, as a side project.
The goal is to create a platform where users can read and share their reading stats, goals, ideas, by also providing a modern & friendly UI.
Currently we have only developed a desktop version for macos/windows/linux, but we are willing to conquer the mobile too!
phaser 2 days ago [-]
Really cool. Do you have plans for e-paper readers?
alemilos 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! If you mean something like the Kindle.. No that's not on our future plans. Our current roadmap is
- make desktop versions stable
- create the mobile app
- add more community features (something like goodreads but also integrated in the books you read on the app)
jerrygoyal 20 hours ago [-]
For those who don't want to switch to AI browsers, I built a chrome extension that lets you chat with page, draft emails and messages, fix grammar, translate, summarize page, etc.
You can use models not just from OpenAI but also from Google and Anthropic.
I'm working on TableForge[0], it's a browser based, solo or multiplayer, D&D 5e game. TTRPG DMing can be effort-heavy and my friend group constantly has trouble finding enough time to play together let alone set it up.
In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
The whole point of this framework is to increase the robustness of agents so that small models (30b class) can function over long time horizons reliably. Other goals include auditability (full agent sessions are stored durably and can be branched/rolled back/restarted from any point, all over-the-wire comms are also durably stored) and reliability (sane fallbacks for common failure cases).
The current iteration (sketch 7 or draft 7 or 8) is specifically a coding agent framework. In the future I'd like to expand the core to handle a variety of tasks.
Tallain 2 days ago [-]
Two things right now:
1. A music recommendation tool based on Last.fm scrobble history.
It's graph-based, no ML or "fancy" techniques, but I've had good results with it so far. It builds recommendations based on a listening window or just recent history. It combines several different recommendation algorithms (including an Auralist-inspired "serendipity" score for novel recommendations, meant to simulate the serendipity of being recommended something novel by a friend), scores and ranks candidates, and takes in feedback that inform subsequent recommendations.
Fun project. Found some good new music with it already. :)
2. A code exploration / indexing tool with CLI and MCP interfaces for exploring concepts and impacts of changes in a codebase.
Essentially, an overwrought "find all uses" that doesn't depend on exact symbol or string matching.
I have a codebase of non-trivial size, but thankfully it's fairly well-structured. This tool indexes the code and bundles modules into "concepts" -- these can be auto-discovered or preconfigured. Dependencies, inheritance trees, symbols and symbol usage are all also indexed.
Then you can ask, "what's the impact of extending the domain model of XYZ" or "I want to remove this property" and it shows where to start, where to look next, and fuzzy edges or dependencies that might need deeper exploration. It surfaces non-obvious connections, too, or things a junior dev (or LLM) might miss, like when a model is mapped to an API DTO, or intermediary states, etc.
It's been useful for a new dev exploring the codebase, because you can ask in terms of business concepts instead of needing to know the exact symbol name in the code. And it's been much more token efficient than grep for exploration subagents. But it's limited to dotnet only.
chickensong 1 days ago [-]
1. I'm interested and would like to know more! Will you be publishing it? How do the recommendations work?
Tallain 1 hours ago [-]
It's published but I would doxx myself by posting the link here -- I can email you if you'd like.
Also, full disclosure, because this was written entirely for myself, the code behind it is 100% LLM generated. I set the specs and direction but didn't touch code at all, just let agents churn while I did my day job and tested the results later.
For the recommendations:
- Seed selection is performed by building a mix of seed artists from recent listening, lifetime favorites, old obsessions, and underexplored artists.
- Seed weight combines `log(1 + play count)`, track diversity, number of listening months, and a recency decay
- Candidates are generated at the union of artists reached by "similar artist" edges through Last.fm and MusicBrainz-enriched local data (APIs are used to enrich DB initially, then after that it's all offline)
- Discovery excludes known artists, hidden and recently-reviewed artists
- Discovery requires edges with at least two distinct seeds, or one strong seed edge
- Discovery is scored by similarity (Last.fm + tag), feedback, and rediscovery thresholds. Then score is subtracted for excessive knownness within a genre, obviousness, recommendation fatigue, and shallow prior listening. The thresholds are by default but configurable:
- Serendipity is additional score provided when a candidate connects several seeds that are themselves weakly connected, or are in separate connected components. This is a weak implementation of the Auralist serendipity algorithm, and will be improved on.
- Finally, diversity reranking; a greey MMR-style reranker.
I'm working on a collaborative post-apocalyptic fitness RPG. I wanted to build a game that lets you take over the real world, gets you off the couch, and has only positive multiplayer engagement. If you find or invite another player nearby, all your actions with them benefit you both.
It's for iPhone, and for the best experience, Apple Watch. It's very early, playable via TestFlight, and I would love feedback! There's a TestFlight link at: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co
alfg 2 days ago [-]
Launched a suite of media inspection and encoding tools a few months ago, based on FFmpeg. Slowly getting more customers.
Constantly iterating through refinement and features. It's built on Rust + Tauri with a React frontend, in case anyone is curious.
I've created various open-source and commercial tools in the multimedia space over the last 10+ years and wanted to put it all together into something more premium with an IDE-like experience.
jaimehrubiks 2 days ago [-]
I'm not into video editing, but it looks very nice!
alfg 2 days ago [-]
Thank you!
Paarthmj 2 days ago [-]
I am building Promptster - an AI fluency platform that helps level up engineers. Engineering managers invite their teammates and Promptster analyzes the engineers work with ai coding tools (claude code, codex, cursor, copilot). The manager receives a team-aggregate dashboard where they can roll-out certain practices / skill to their whole team. Each IC receives their own dashboard where they can see their fluency statistics, skill usage, context management, and a DORA dashboard.
AI requiring anything more than ultra basic skills is a complete lie.
Paarthmj 2 days ago [-]
I guess it's not AI but AI agents. For the coding ones specifically context management, skill usage, etc. does matter quite a bit.
tomburgs 2 days ago [-]
I got tired of all the worthwhile iPhone weightlifting apps wanting a monthly payment for a full feature set, while delivering an uninspiring, cross-platform experience.
I noticed none of the apps felt native to the iPhone, and I wanted something that felt on-part with the likes of Flighty, Things 3, and such.
Out of my love for weightlifting I then shipped Plates and have been working on it ever since. It's a completely native iPhone lifting app (SwiftUI/UIKit) and I've gone quite hard on native UI elements such as custom keyboards for plate-loaded exercises and RPE/RIR inputs, native animations, and nice haptic feel. It has no backend servers and no tracking SDKs, yet it still supports things like cross-device sync thanks to Apple's CloudKit. The best part is that it's just a one-time payment.
Hi Tom,
I downloaded your app and love your attention to detail, and how it works. I think it's exactly what I've been looking for. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to change the units. I live in Canada and we use both pounds and kilograms here. By default, the app uses Kilograms in Canada, but most weightlifting gyms use pounds. Do you have a plan to add unit settings in the future?
tomburgs 2 days ago [-]
Yes, it's actually possible to change it in the settings! It's in Settings -> Apps -> Plates.
It's possible to change the weight and distance units there, as well as the effort metric (rpe/rir/none).
ibash 2 days ago [-]
I just tried to install this and got the message: "This application requires iOS 26.0 or later."
I'm an iOS 18 holdout, any chance of a backwards compatible app?
tomburgs 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for checking out the app! Truthfully it simply doesn't make sense to support anything prior to iOS 26 for Plates. It was built entirely around liquid glass, morphing animations, and many iOS 26+ APIs.
rudibe 2 days ago [-]
A cliché project, but working on a photo library browser that works in a way that I want it. Technically, the interesting thing is a UI that is reusable across all of my target platforms (desktop, mobile and in-browser with WASM). Rust+GPUI is the first platform I've seen that makes this possible with a reasonable performance and quality.
A local neighbourhood cake-stall marketplace. Got a great recipe and some time to bake? Put a picture of your sweet treat up, and get strangers knocking on your front door. You get cash-in-hand, delicious reviews and get to share your family recipes with your local community. No need for shopify, websites, and middle-men. Not sure what to call it, maybe something like onlynonnas.com ?
gburgett 2 days ago [-]
Im building an agent that interacts with health care providers on your behalf to proactively get itemized bills and other substantiation as needed. Born out of my own frustration with the paperwork for getting reimbursed from my healthcare cost sharing ministry. The app is React with a Laravel backend on EC2 where the agent runs.
Recently Ive been experimenting more with coding from my phone using Claude Code for the Web. Its basically turned Github Actions into my development environment. Its enabled me to fire off a quick prompt in planning mode, go play with my kids, review and approve the plan while Im cooking dinner, then let it go 10 rounds with the AI code reviewer while I put the kids to bed. As a busy parent I feel way more productive than if I had to carve out sit down focus time for a side project.
I was making a project for more than last 7 months to solve and issue that i had while i was applying for the GSOC that when i went for this huge codebase it was so overwhelming i took that problem tried solving it by myself , i solved it you can view it on github- https://github.com/RajX-dev/N3MO
its solves the problem by solving by providing the graph of that particular function you searched
ab-dm 1 days ago [-]
I'm in Year 3 of building a specialist private lender in Australia. Was part time on it for 2 years and jumped in full time in Feb. I was originally involved in building all the tech (and there is a lot of tech) but more recently I've been more and more involved in the finance side.
It's my most successful venture to date and it's moving in the right direction. Lending is a really interesting space but i'm always a bit sad there's no one that knows much about it outside of banks and private credit.
Instead of music or long podcasts, you are given something to imagine. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one.
In short → Close your eyes, listen & imagine.
xenocratus 2 days ago [-]
Building a small cloud service that I've been thinking of for a while, to take the articles I don't have time to read but find interesting in principle, and convert them to audio via TTS. Just filled a short flight with some articles from the backlog, now I need to do some UI improvements, and then maybe a similar flow for academic papers too. :)
msyea 2 days ago [-]
I've been excited about OpenRouter's OAuth 2.0 PKCE flow for backendless BYOK inference. I just updated my Garmin watch AI app (https://untether.watch/en/apps/byok) to run the whole flow on the watch for a seamless BYOK experience - formerly you had to copy/paste your Gemini key into settings, which was a huge barrier.
If you're building client-side/frontend apps and want to let your users BYOK, OpenRouter's PKCE flow is great for that.
Otherwise I'm still working on Untether (https://untether.watch) - a suite of digital-minimalism apps that let you stay connected and do quick actions on the watch while keeping your smartphone out of sight (and your hands).
A focused and functional service for event hosts to collect guest photos through a shared link/QR code that leads to an upload page. Think photo gathering for weddings, bachelor/bachelorette parties, corporate events, big birthdays, etc.
There are many of these out there, but I found most unintuitive ("too complicated for Grandma"), too featureful, and/or much too expensive.
A daily puzzle game called Dozenal that I've been making with a friend. We've been increasing our user base over the past couple of months and are still trying to refine the learning curve.
If you like number puzzle games, I would be very keen for you to give it a go and to hear your feedback on it!
The idea is to reduce the number of moving parts and simplify processing architecture when building apps that need to be transactionally rigorous and scalable.
It stems from the patterns we used to successfully apply in banks, which worked really well. I believe it's an effective way to get shit done in a broad class of systems. You just need to first get your head around it.
Once my visiting family departs I am going to finish building the Little Free Library I started last month. We have lived in our current home for 5 years and it is about time I share my love of reading with my neighbors.
https://littlefreelibrary.org/
agtilden 2 days ago [-]
I finally decided to put together a Sonos controller with the navigation I wanted and SMAPI servers for the live music archive, and all the grateful dead and phish shows. Thanks Claude! A PWA with tailscale and I have a controller that does what I want and works at home on an S1 system and at the beach on an S2 - seamlessly. Better than the "real" thing as far as I can tell.
MatGoat (https://matgoat.com/en/): a software for managing BJJ and martial arts academies that it's both easy to use and have everything they need like assistance tracking, payments, communications, etc.
It's going quite well so far with growing MRR each month.
Lately, I've been trying to focus more on marketing, and sales. I might try ads soon as well.
It has X11 and Wayland support, pre-built packages for all major distributions, almost 60 baked in applets.
For those into Linux and using a dock bar, I am sure you will like it.
lambdaone 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on improving my PCB synthesis system; given a KiCad schematic and some extra metadata it can currently lay out and route an entire double-sided PCB with about 50 components in 4 minutes without any human intervention.
I wrote it because I was too lazy to learn how to use KiCad's layout features properly, and thought 'how hard can it be?'. Several months later, I had this.
It's not intended to compete with Altium etc. but it certainly produces compact, valid and fully design-rule-compliant boards with much less work that doing it myself or using one of the low-cost remote labour platforms.
It uses constraint logic programming to solve the hard parts of the problem. Hierarchical decomposition of the circuit design helps reduce combinatorial explosion, which was a show-stopper for early versions of the system. Current indications are that I may be able to scale it further in the longer term to deal with more complex design scenarios and larger boards, without hitting the exponential cliff.
jtap 2 days ago [-]
I’ve been continuing work on https://mybulkcards.com, a phone app and website for scanning, organizing, and searching Pokémon card collections, especially the thousands of bulk cards that my daughter and I have in our closet from playing.
The goal hasn't changed too much, make building decks easier by knowing exactly what you own and where it’s stored. You organize cards into boxes, search your inventory, search friends’ collections, and keep track of trades instead of digging through a similar closet of cards that my daughter and I search for.
The fun part has been the AI. I trained computer vision models that run entirely on the phone to detect and identify Pokémon cards. Training has become the slowest part. For the model that needs to be retrained every new release, I’m up to about 5 hours per epoch on my M4 Mac with 16 GB of RAM.
The Android app is currently in public testing with people from my local Pokémon league. It’s built with React Native, and I’m working on the iPhone version next.
Still lots to build, mostly around product and ux, and because a recent stupid mistake on my part, backups and deployment safeguards.
TimJRobinson 2 days ago [-]
I would love this for magic the gathering
jtap 2 days ago [-]
The app and scanner is heavily inspired by Manabox. It's a great product, and I would have used that if they did Pokémon, but it's only Magic.
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fabioz 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a tool to manage developing with Agents for teams, using a UI like a Kanban board and workflows, so the development starts from a given workflow and not from a prompt, the idea being that instead of starting from a prompt/talk with the agent you define the ticket, create a plan, review and then have workflows that cover the implementation -- I find that I have better results than trying to do a chat with the agent for implementing.
I've been full time on it for 4 months already and dogfooding: https://beolis.com -- starting to look for feedback, although I would say it's not where I want to be yet, but getting there.
AnswerJournal lets you save AI answers to a personal journal just by saying "save that to my AnswerJournal" mid-conversation.
Each answer gets its own URL, and posts can be public or private. It's a bit like GitHub meets Stack Overflow for the answers AI gives you.
It connects to any MCP-compatible AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc.) through one server URL.
dewey 2 days ago [-]
I'm building a Twitter (X), Bluesky, Nostr and Mastodon bookmark reminder and manager called https://getbirdfeeder.com. It's a project I've released many years ago but had to shut down during the X API changes. I've now revived it and supported more services.
ac2u 2 days ago [-]
A CLI/Terminal file deduper.
Moving a lot of files from old laptop to new, lots of duplicate videos in scattered directories with different file names.
Point the CLI tool at a directory and up pops a ncurses application that scans from the directory you specify (recursively), hashes all the files to get groups of dupes, and then ranks the dupes into a table (that looks like top) so you can work your way through the dupes and decide which to keep without your hands leaving the keyboard.
It automatically ignores typical developer directories like node_modules so you're not tortured with noise in the result set.
Hit 'p' and a preview pops up so you can double check they are indeed dupes, if it's a media file the preview window autoplays the dupe videos in tiles with zero volume.
Supports a dry run mode, and switches to cover behaviour like sending dupes to trash rather than hard deletion.
smacke 2 days ago [-]
I started burning down the backlog of all the stuff I wanted to get to for side projects but never had time for (before LLMs):
- https://smacke.net/ffsubsync -- automagically synchronize subtitles, now purely client-side in your browser thanks to pyodide
A cloudflare hosted task and wiki deployment - https://tajd.github.io/projektor/ - free to host because it's on your infra on cloudflare. Built it because I could, and it was simpler and cheaper than using atlassian etc.
A tool for enforcing code architecture and conventions - https://tajd.github.io/cofferdam/ - these sorts of tools come along every week, but this one is mine and it's v quick to run and extendable.
And then I'm currently working on a game for winning the start of sailing races as that's quite a tactical and fun problem to break down. Will be releasing something there soon!
wild_egg 2 days ago [-]
Building a new Smalltalk VM from scratch that better utilizes modern hardware (full multicore support) and a web-based system browser so I can develop with it remotely.
Paradigm2020 2 days ago [-]
Github / codeberg / website to follow up on progress?
wild_egg 2 days ago [-]
Will include in next month's thread! Finally getting it where I want after a year of hacking so it seems time to think about how I want to open it up.
dharmatech 2 days ago [-]
Cool!
Any demos available of the web based browser?
wild_egg 2 days ago [-]
Nothing public yet but hopefully will have for next month's thread!
Have been working on three micro-saas, all built in Elixir/Phoenix:
https://feedbun.com - a browser extension that decodes food labels and recipes on any website for healthy eating, with science-backed research summaries and recommendations.
https://rizz.farm - a lead gen tool for Reddit that focuses on helping instead of selling, to build long-lasting organic traffic.
https://persumi.com - a blogging platform that turns articles into audio, and to showcase your different interests or "personas".
Took a long break earlier this year to recharge, but now I'm back at it again, mostly working on Feedbun, about to launch it as an early alpha. :)
kzalesak 21 hours ago [-]
I am trying to develop a CO2 monitor specifically for older classrooms with no central air exchange with some friends. CO2 monitors already exist but none are actually optimized for this specific case.
Our device has an easy traffic light system, and a tailored guide to ventilation based on the shape and size of the room.
crispweed 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a collection of networked games, around the central theme of a lockstep deterministic network model with 'delay frames' (between acting directly on user input and progressing actual shared network state).
- Neon Swarm, a take on the classic lemmings game, with multiplayer versus and coop modes
- Serpents, a snake game (where you eat food, grow a tail and need to avoid this growing tail), with inertial movement and multiplayer
- Spirits, an homage to N++, where you work together to get someone to the exit, while avoiding enemies, figuring out how to open doors, and so on
- Pilots, a multiplayer asteroids battle with homing missiles
Each game solves the network delay problem (the problem of providing immediate feedback to user input and hiding the fact that actual changes to shared state are delayed) differently, and it has been very interesting to work through a bunch of different approaches to this.
If anyone else here is working on multiplayer network games, I'm very interested in setting up a regular "play each other's games" session.
The idea is that regularly playing with other game developers will help develop a kind of 'scene' (where you get a group of people together who make work in public but really aimed at each other, pushing and unblocking one another to become bolder and better at an accelerating rate, as described here: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/scene-creation-engines ).
If you are interested, let me know!
davidpapermill 2 days ago [-]
Papermill - the document engine for AI. Turn AI content into polished documents using a new document/templating language called Press [1]
It's essentially a high-quality alternative to the HTML-PDF route so many people take for document generation. It's designed as a tool for AI agents.
Something cool we've released - an MCP server makes it possible for models like Claude to design fully-featured documents. We use this internally and some of our customers now use it to quickly build new templates.
Just launched self-serve a few weeks ago. Continuing to develop the typesetter and language behind it.
Press is the language, docs are open [2].
Would love any feedback from folks that have worked on document generation, or people with experience doing HTML->PDF.
Recently launched https://hellbox.com (formerly Font Proof) and am still actively working on it. It is a native macOS app for font proofing. It watches your type design software like Glyphs, RoboFont, and FontLab or any font file or designspace on your machine and reloads the font proof when you save.
devttyeu 2 days ago [-]
Building a rootless, namespace powered (deeply stretching the definition of a container), on demand application workspace.
- Each component in a mini app in a heavily locked down container
- Components are deployed and built in a web workspace, in the same workspace you can open a terminal and use your favourite coding agent to work on component code (each terminal is itself heavily sandboxes, has rw access only to the edited component code and users home dir)
- Everything comes with heavy rbac and minimum permissions
- Oh so much more
Explaining this well is hard, much like explaining to someone what Kubernetes or AWS does. This is at a level of what a sophisticated company infrastructure team would run, just as a workspace you can deploy for yourself easily and agents just build within that framework (I’m a cofounder of a infra/compute/datacenter startup and intimately familiar with this kind of complexity)
The main thesis is that Claw-style agents still feel like school projects, and that in the agentic era apps on demand will be more of a thing, and that the current systems weren’t built to deal with a whole new app built every few minutes.
May or may not end up as open source soon
foxtrot8672 1 days ago [-]
Pendragon, Personal Finance Decision Support system. We built it from the ground up with confidence, provenance, and demonstrated end to end workflows.
Pendragon sits on top of Roundtable, our proprietary Agentic AI framework which splits data into knowledge domains. The key advantage of this is isolated input domains which prevent context bloat and strictly control access and ensure information isolation.
I’m still working on a price API for the Counter-Strike 2 market that provides real-time & historical data.
Since my last post in February, I’ve gotten to ~25 paying users, which is cool considering it started as a fun project. Sorta a niche within a niche here.
The market is distributed across a bunch of 3rd-party marketplaces, and there's no 'simple' API that provides genuinely high-quality data for the few marketplaces that matter. It’s a surprisingly complex problem, which is probably why nobody else is bothering :).
It's been a super fun project, and I've been able to learn about collecting & managing a high (to me) scale of data, building an API from the ground-up, and creating my first 'commercial' website.
The API is built w/ Go & Clickhouse, which I've also been super impressed with so far in terms of performance and efficiency.
Web design is inspired/somewhat taken from turbopuffer's site, since I really liked it.
altmanaltman 2 days ago [-]
Interesting and I also really liked the mobile website. Just wanted to let you know there is a bug on the frontend where the navbar does not collapse back when the user changes the page like going to pricing, the page state changes but the navbar stays on top hiding the change
aua 2 days ago [-]
Huh, thanks for letting me know, I'll look into it! I'm not able to view it, but I'm guessing it's some browser idiosyncrasy.
A text-based song format for generating music. I wanted to be able to create a song entirely using text, so I created a TOML-based format for doing so, and gave it most of the features you would find in a DAW. Since the format can be described in a SKILL file, AI can be used to write a song in this format, which can then be converted to audio.
Everyone who plays D&D has experienced the moment where they forget key details about the collective story they’re building. From ‘hey it’s been a month, where are we?’ to ‘wait who was this crazy npc again?’, ai is excellent at transcribing, notetaking and building a knowledge graph of your fantasy world.
I’m still building mostly for myself by adding a ton of features I know my friends would want, but also think there’s some ‘there’ there.
The idea is simple: let Loracle record your sessions on discord or upload the raw audio of your sessions, then get a rich personal wiki and session notes you can interact with.
If you’re mid-campaign you can also upload session notes from plain text and it bootstraps a campaign wiki. Then future audio based sessions have a good base of npcs, quests, characters, etc to build off of.
At this stage I’d love feedback more than anything else. Happy to comp a lot of usage to HNers in return for some reports on how well it’s serving you. Email admin@loracle.app for anything and everything.
tasoeur 2 days ago [-]
I’ve been exploring what sort of agentic tooling to write for creative coding and realtime VFX. My second iteration just got released earlier this week (also open source): https://sxp.studio/apps/subz
If you’re open to the idea of composing code blocks and ideas, plus some generative UI exploration, feel free to join!
techwizrd 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a side project to clean up and fix EPUB files with transcription errors, incomplete or inaccurate metadata, and other issues. Users can accept/reject/edit the fixes as they go through it. I have the command-line interface and TUI working (thanks to Ratatui), but I'm still working on a Calibre plugin and web-based version using WASM.
brandonpaiz 2 days ago [-]
Neat, have a project page?
ciju 2 days ago [-]
https://finbodhi.com — It's an app for your financial journey. It helps you track, understand, benchmark and plan your finances - with double-entry accounting. You own your financial data. It’s local-first, syncs across devices, and everything’s encrypted in transit (we do have your email for subscription tracking and analytics). Supports multiple-accounts (track as a family or even as an advisor), multi-currency, a custom sheet/calculator to operate on your accounts (calculate taxes etc) and much more. Supports price for most Indian investment vehicles and US stocks.
Most recently we added support for creating custom dashboards. You can compare return with leading/trailing/rolling charts for investment options and benchmark (create custom dashboards tracking nav and value chart of) your portfolio (or a subset of assets you own) and US stocks, etfs etc. And family dashboard (e.g. you can see networth, cashflows, income, use sheets at family level and more). See https://finbodhi.com/changelog for details.
The game is basically the XOR operator combined with set-style game mechanics. What makes it better than other set style games, imho, is that there's a mathematical property of "projective sets" that guarantees that there is always at least one valid set on the table.
sav_m 2 days ago [-]
A single-user blogging CMS/server that acts as static site generator while having a GUI for publishing/reading and that speaks some indie web protocols. I'm implementing webmentions (vouch, private mentions, salmentions) and maybe indie auth. It's mostly to solve some annoyances I have with Hugo (and SSGs in general) and to try new things. I want it to be something between bearblog and miniflux.
I'm also writing it in java, which is quite uncommon for this type of software, but I hope it'll be way more stable in the long run (in the sense of security flaws and maintenance) than projects made in python and js.
nozzlegear 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on the finishing touches for a big new "Event Filters" feature for my Shopify app, Stages (https://getstages.com). The feature will let users set up rules to decide which orders should be imported into the app based on certain criteria like Shopify product names, collection names, order value, and so on. Users have been asking for it forever, and I'm planning on publishing it this week!
I'm also working on an update to ShopifySharp, the .NET package I maintain for Shopify's graphql and rest APIs. I need to regenerate the graphql types and the fluent query builders for the July 2026 API version that was just released, and I'm planning on some extra QoL improvements that I've run into while using the package over the last couple of months. I particularly want to add some F# QoL features, since I wrote the package in C# but use F# in all my personal projects. (https://github.com/nozzlegear/shopifysharp)
I’ve been playing around with aligning drone footage to flight paths. I'm really interested in the idea of representing a video as a volume, planning to do something similar with non-drone video too.
raffraffraff 2 days ago [-]
Just a personal project right now but it's a music metadata aggregator.
I find that nobody really knows how to do this. Machine learning can detect some song attributes well (bpm, ez right?) but it's inconsistent with some things (eg mood, spotify valence)
I prefer to only add metadata that I can rely on: track credits & instruments (when available), lyrics, bpm / "energy" and genre. At least that's what I've got for now. I'm not adding anything unreliable.
So far I'm able to pick a genre, artist or even better, song and it gives me a list of tracks that are similar. I can alter the weights of "era", "instruments", "genre".
So far i haven't run old school NLP on the lyrics but that's the next step. It's likely to be far more informative than "valence"
Anyway, not public, still very alpha but I like it and find it useful.
willmeyers 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on CT RailTime (https://ctrailtime.com), a better way to travel on CTrail. Their current eTix app is essentially broken and the CT government does not seem to care enough to fix it.
I am working on a Jupyter notebook client for VisionOS. It allows for 3D data to be visualized on visionOS. Right now it supports point cloud data, USDZ models and Gaussian Splats. I am working on it to launch on the App Store. Sign up for more information at http://www.pulto.org
Ceravi 1 days ago [-]
Building CVD Portal, a free whitelabel Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure platform for EU manufacturers, plus tooling for the incoming Cyber Resilience Act.
From September 2026 the CRA obliges manufacturers to file a 24 hour early-warning and 72 hour report to ENISA for actively exploited vulnerabilities.
Recent work is all top-of-funnel. Free no-signup self-assessment and exposure-scan tools that pull in people who don't yet know they have an obligation.
I am Working on All in One AI Photo Editor and PDF Editor.
Added man tool like this Colorize old Photos: https://pixoate.com/colorize-photo
joefreeman 2 days ago [-]
I've been building a text editor. It uses a server-client model, with native/terminal/web clients using a shared (local) server instance. It integrates LSP/tree-sitter/ripgrep/Git/etc, and has a concept of 'workspaces' to easily switch between projects.
I spend less time in an editor now, but it's been satisfying being able to take features I've enjoyed from other editors and customise - and it's oriented a bit more towards exploring code than editing. Key-bindings are arranged such that bare letters are for motions, Shift- variants are then used to extend selections, Ctrl- bindings are for buffer mutations, and leader-prefixed bindings are application level (e.g., opening pickers).
Today I'm carrying on looking for a literary agent to represent me for my young adult speculative fiction. Long after human civ collapsed, crows have evolved to speak and are undergoing their own industrial revolution when they discover an asteroid heading towards earth. My 10 year old read it for the first time yesterday and loved it. That's made it all worth it already even if it doesn't get published.
Tonight is a meeting of a local group growing hemp locally, processing and spinning by hand to make an item of clothing locally and sustainably between us all.
Just spent the weekend at a wing chin gathering with some incredible people. They showed me so much I need at least 2 weeks to think about it all.
Apart from that I’m starting college to study therapy and counselling soon so I'm trying to read up to be a bit prepared.
defrost 2 days ago [-]
> crows have evolved to speak and are undergoing their own industrial revolution
That's all very well and good, but what of the Caws of Art ?!
lukebuehler 2 days ago [-]
A self-hostable Claude Tag or OAI Work [0].
A while ago, I realized that most new agent harnesses being built must be hosted on your machine or on a VM--in other words the agent needs a full OS process at all times.
But we do not have good harnesses being built that are multi-tenant, do not use compute while they are paused, but are are still as powerful as, say, Claude Code or Codex, OpenClaw.
So I set out to build one. I realized that the best substrate for these kind of agents are durable workflow engines. I'm currently supporting Temporal. AFAIK much of OAI agent infra is built on Temporal too. My harness is decidedly not just another agent SDK, but rather a battery-included product.
A macOS menu bar app to alert when apps start using too much resources and drain your battery. Helped me diagnose many leaking Chrome tabs and macOS bugged services.
ElCapitanMarkla 2 days ago [-]
I'll give this a go, battery has been draining pretty quick with all this multi agent dev
felix-the-cat 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a self-hosted open source system for monitoring and alerting on stalled / crashed / overdue asynchronous workflows. I had some weird things I needed to monitor and log analysis was kind of a PITA for dealing with them so I built this instead:
My favorite feature is I built a Stream Deck plugin for it so that I can monitor things from my Stream Deck XL while I'm doing other work, then if a button goes red or whatever I can just click it and it brings up the admin portal and shows me the workflow that failed.
It's still kind of in the alpha state but it does work pretty well.
pandaman28 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a multiplayer stock trading game that was inspired by all my favorite board games. https://www.spellfolio.com/
It's a web-based game for 1-8 players, features a tutorial and bots, plays like a board game, and operates with economy, bluffing, forward-planning, risk-taking, course-correcting mechanics.
Play as an amateur psychic navigating a fictional stock market. Receive premonitions, call in your wizard friend, navigate dividends & earnings releases, and chase the glamorous annual investor awards.
If you try it out, please leave me some feedback :)
It's a way to augment small/overloaded security teams. It can pentest and then generate a pentester-style PDF report for auditors and procurement, triage incoming e-mails from security researchers by then checking whether the vulnerabilities they claim actually exist and are exploitable, hook into GitHub to scan for vulnerabilities and auto-propose fixes or file GitHub issues for you.
It's free for Open Source projects, if anyone here is maintaining one
eskibars 2 days ago [-]
Also, a "just for fun" project: https://drifttrip.connelly.casa/ . I was always enthralled with the idea of taking a virtual road trip and then loading the local council's tourism promo videos at each "stop"
escapecharacter 2 days ago [-]
Oh man, this sounds fun. But, the button is stuck at "Loading" and never completes. Is HN hugging it to death?
eskibars 1 days ago [-]
Yeah, I think so. It's running on a pretty small VPS and I never implemented any caching. Should have thought about that before posting I guess. I see the CPU is currently pegged. I was able to get it to load at least 1 trip myself though, so maybe retry in a bit
escapecharacter 2 days ago [-]
Input: video of an exercise/workout/dance.
Output: single collage image as summary.
Me+team have been working on a large scope problem this past year. We're hardening some of our internal tools, and choose this small-scope problem about a month ago. Results have been encouraging so far, though not yet non-sloppy enough to share. We'll release in about a month.
Going into this, I thought I'd be spending most of my time tuning computer vision. Instead, the majority of the time has been handling codec and ffmpeg behaviour edge cases.
motohagiography 1 days ago [-]
this is interesting for sports i'm involved in. does it sort images by various symmetries? being able to "green line" (don't search that) an image to show where the expected vs. realized symmetry should be would be very useful for athletes.
escapecharacter 1 days ago [-]
Which sports are you into? I'll be looking for closed alpha testers shortly. Email me at dustin at hyperpan.cv
Automatically drawing hint lines has been a request from a few people. When I talk to personal trainers or athletes (new or serious) in various sports, I've tested out this concept by asking them what they'd want drawn. Turns out, it's so contextual, opinionated and subjective, I don't think there's a great approach unless I assume we have an unrealistic amount of context.
e.g., one case is kettlebell swings. You might want to see how consistent your swings are in a set, and between sets. To do this well, you'd need to reliably detect the kettlebell swing exercise using some N-way classifier. And then, correct for camera position. And then, center the relevant part of the body (is this shoulder? hips? turns out people have different opinions).
Instead, we're going to use a more generic visualization approach that doesn't try to be opinionated. But, I'm expecting to open-source the visualization front-end so it's tweakable by users.
motohagiography 1 days ago [-]
a back squat form checker would be a product in itself. dressage is probably too niche, but an interesting control or test case. yoga would be a large market.
cgopalan 2 days ago [-]
A self-hosted, better browser interface to preview s3 files. This overcomes the limitation of the s3 console not allowing querying or viewing files beyond a certain size. It also gives you information about the column types. It could be a good use case to present this to non-IT teams in orgs who just want a preview of the data in the files or want to do some simple explorations. Frequently, they are denied access because of the possibility of doing something with confidential data via the s3 console.
Very cool, it’s insane to me how frustrating the S3 UI is. My current annoyance is bulk downloading is hard, and seeing things like “how large is this bucket or specific key prefix in bytes”
Saw you using DuckDB at internal/handlers/api.go
Wondering if you’d considered letting queries operate at the bucket or key prefix level instead of requiring key to specific file? Or is that already supported?
I’ve liked being able to point DuckDB to a folder following Hive partition scheme, and then querying it just like Spark/Trino would over many files
cgopalan 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! Its true, many things are frustrating, like you say - bulk downloading. Yes DuckDB is amazing, and I use it in more than one of my projects. It has a lot of use cases for the data lake.
I agree, it would be more beneficial to query on patterns, but the main use case I saw for this app was non-tech folks wanting to see data in s3. I assume they wouldn't do fancy stuff like querying multiple files. But maybe I should add that functionality. Thanks for the suggestion!
Being unemployed and wanting to make something, I started studying quantitative trading concepts and got into algorithmic trading.
I decided to build out an algorithmic trading platform using the tools I developed for myself.
It's written entirely in Rust but user algorithms are written in TypeScript. It uses a Cloudflare-workers inspired approach to run the user functions.
The server uses under a megabyte of ram to run and user functions also use a negligible amount of memory per invocation.
It's also super fast, with round trip latency of 3ms - well, at least it does when I use the proper server. I'm running it on my low cost server right now so latency is around 50ms.
I know no one will use it, but it's been very fun to make
visox 2 days ago [-]
actually quite cool.
apatheticonion 2 days ago [-]
Thanks :)
coldstartops 2 days ago [-]
Two weeks ago presented current state of KEIBIDROP at Pass The SALT 2026, and now I am planning the push for the next version 0.4.0.
KEIBIDROP: Makes remote files appear as local (it hides the network latency in order to let you open and edit a peers file without downloading it upfront or re-uploading it fully back).
For version 0.4.0 I am planning multi-user support, using UDP (QUIC) instead of TCP as the networking layer, optimization of live-edit regions of files, and to test it even more for data heavy workflows.
I'm working on https://gatewai.studio in my free time - it is an agentic workflow engine for content creators.
There are 40+ nodes that can be used to generate and modify images, videos, audio, or vector graphics. Some of them include Crop, Resize, LUT extraction, Levels, Audio Compressor, Ken Burns, Mesh Warp, Recorder, Noise Gate, Compositor and Signal Builder.
It also supports signals for dynamic and time-based configuration values for the nodes. For example, making blur strength change from 30 to 0 gradually in the first 2 seconds of a video.
It uses a WebGPU pipeline for rendering and a homebaked engine for workflow processing.
It is free to use except for the AI nodes and workflow agent. It is not officially released yet, and feedback would be very valuable.
NishanStepak 2 days ago [-]
I am playing around with creating a public domain repository for ebooks. https://babelnexus.com There are a few differences. It uses core collection theory and is selective. The name comes from the short story The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges. Borges used Hexagonal Galleries for his library. I realized you could put anything into hexagonal galleries. It did not have to be books composed of random letters. I also saw that you could use different levels to group kinds of knowledge using the spiral staircase concept. I have added other concepts like reading trails and cortex maps. I learned that the hexagonal concept of Borges library matches with knowledge graphs with both nodes and edges. There is a lot of experimentation in what I am doing. It is an art project, a bit of philosophizing, a bit on the public domain and many other things.
romanhn 2 days ago [-]
AI resume spam has absolutely ruined hiring. I've seen countless stories of hiring managers complaining about receiving thousands of resumes within an hour of opening up a new job listing. Likewise, good qualified candidates are getting drowned out by loads of customized junk. I'm building a tool for the recruiters and hiring teams to combat this and bring some sanity back to the already challenging process. The general idea is to introduce a small bit of friction that will hopefully be not-too-impacting for legit applicants while stopping bots from proceeding.
First iteration is ready to fly, just working out the infrastructure at the moment. Hoping to drop this on Show HN soon. If anyone is interested in test driving this prior to launch, I've temporarily added my email to my profile.
Please subscribe if you enjoy it. It is and will stay free.
igeligel_dev 1 days ago [-]
Working on improving https://dartsva.com/ (Mainly content marketing). A new idea that spun up from that is an agentic OpenGraph image tool. E.g. for the blogs for dartsva I am creating og images with that script and via agents which works very well.
rmnclmnt 2 days ago [-]
In the past few weeks, experimenting with a custom ai agent running entirely in the browser with sandboxed tools exec.
The core is built in Rust, a native CLI is built on top for local experimentation but the most interesting part is the web version: the core is built to WASM and get augmented with many tools in the JS land:
- OPFS access (read, list, edit files)
- Sandbox Python exec (Pyodide in WASM)
- Sandbox DuckDB exec (DuckDB-WASM)
- Draw charts
- Show images
- etc
OpenAI Completions compatible API providers are supported.
But if you want a full local and sandboxed execution of the whole agent, the web version bundles also wllama to serve local GGUF models (with WebGPU optional support).
Very cool work. I've been seeking solutions for running an agent in the browser for building artifacts on my project, which is a web artifact tool library called Exhibit. I'm starring this for later.
Oh nice! I’ll take a look at it, I was thinking of implementing such mecanism in Cooper (I don’t know where it’s going, exploring the possibilities and practical usefulness)
acolytic 2 days ago [-]
I've been working with coding agents for a few years and became increasingly frustrated by the way it pushes you towards a solution. So I built rubberduck (https://userubberduck.com/) - a way to control exactly what solution the agent ends up creating by mimicking a design conversation with a competent colleague where the agent explores the solution space together and forces you to make decisions. The final output is a consolidated design document of all the decisions you made. At least that was how it began. I've since built an implementation plan step where it figures out how to translate the design to code and execution where it actually builds it. All of this happens in a properly isolated environment (using gVisor under the hood). There are more features I want to build so on it goes I suppose.
I've been helping people achieve their reading goals by hosting workshops at libraries and helping adults become more intentional about their reading goals and how to achieve them.
RivoLink 2 days ago [-]
Working on leaf: a terminal markdown previewer with GUI-like experience
Same as last month for once - optimizing how well agents can work with a new language [1]. I've been able to 2-3x success rate and drop total tokens for complex tasks significantly (though the initial syntax dump is rough - need to do some ablation there to get it down).
The best part has been that I think it's significantly improved things for humans too; it's weirdly satisfying to be able to measure improved ergonomics. Also, since a big pitch/theory was that the language should be ideal for agents as a result of the original nice things for humans it was designed for, it's a relief to be able actually measure a concrete lift.
[1] https://trilogydata.dev/ - SQL with types, composable functions of arbitrary complexity, and a native semantic layer.
gengstrand 2 days ago [-]
I am currently focused on an educational site https://www.higherscoresdfs.com/dfs/spa/welcome/ that helps Daily Fantasy Sports fans improve their DraftKings and FanDuel gameplay. We offer strategy advice, player tips, optimized lineups, and player props. We now support both classic and showdown games and have recently added a section offering game outcome predictions for those who do sports trading on prediction markets. We currently support the NFL, NBA, and MLB leagues.
SunboX 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a no upload, no account, no server-side preprocessing online viewer for schematics, PCB layouts, 3D boards and BOMs called ECAD Forge -> https://ecadforge.app/
kstenerud 2 days ago [-]
I made a tool that creates sandboxes (docker, podman, orbstack, seatbelt, tart, Apple containers, containerd, kata, firecracker) and then sets up an agent (claude, codex, gemini, aider, opencode) inside it with max permissiveness (no prompts to call sed, etc).
It creates a CoW copy of your workdir for the agent to play in, and then you pull changes out using git diff/apply semantics.
You control network access, secrets, which files/dirs it has access to.
It's a MASSIVE time saver, and I use it as my daily driver.
making the internet sql queryable, crawling, cleaning, indexing, embedding many sources into source-aware schemas, solving contention problem with free-floating pricing.
Currently crawling over 1M records/sec. software is still in alpha.
scry.io.
goal is a 10PB NVMe cluster online by November (need funding champions) as a public benefit project, so prosocial researchers and builders and their agents can have low-friction access to running analytical queries over the public internet.
chickensong 1 days ago [-]
Do your crawlers respect robots.txt and have a fixed IP pool that can be blocked?
ketzu 2 days ago [-]
A electronic workbook/task generator app for korean learning with AI or human feedback (although for now you have to find the humans yourself).
I grew in ideas and attempts over the years, and it finally got along far enough I actually made it available. The progress in LLMs made some things much easier that I conceived in 2020, but other things didn't get better.
Now that I made it this far, I had to realize though that it is far from what I had imagined and needs much more work.
mchaver 2 days ago [-]
I've been working on a web application for learning 倉頡輸法 https://demo.cangjieworkbook.com/ , no login required for the demo version (Cangjie Input method). It's a visual way of decomposing Chinese characters. It has a high initial learning curve so I've come up with a method based on the ways QWERTY is taught. I've added a few more texts and lessons in the last month. The most time consuming part is adding annotations to characters to show how they are composed, but it is worth doing. I already have a couple of users and they have given me helpful feedback. If you are interested, check it out and let me know how it goes.
goodthink 2 days ago [-]
I rewrote Chucks [American] Football Pool in Newspeak!
Having a hard deadline of Sept 1st, I wasn't sure three months would be enough time. In Newspeak, it took all of three WEEKs to get it to it's current state.
One of the best features is the fact that it's local ONLY. It uses IndexedDB (Newspeak library written by yours truly) to persist the data, meaning zero backend headaches. It also makes it usable by the masses where the Seaside version had many problems in this regard.
Super cool.. and probbaly super complex too. Wish you the best..
ternaryoperator 1 days ago [-]
Thanks for the good wishes.
Indeed, it is super complex. It's been much harder than we initially expected. We'd thought maybe two years--it wouldn't be fast, but it would be complete. But things like invokedynamic instruction, annotations, etc. have added complexity far beyond what we originally expected. But it's been highly instructive. And it's great fun to see full Java programs execute and watch the instructions fly by as they execute. On average we're presently at about 1/3 the performance of the JDK with the -Xint (interpreter mode) flag set. (Some of that performance penalty is due to using go vs. HotSpot's use of C.) We hope in a year to be able to invite interested folks to try it out with their code.
freakynit 1 days ago [-]
JVM is a super highly optimized piece of tech. Using that as a benchmark is pretty daring tbh lol :)
What if your web apps e2e tests ran in production through actual user sessions? Know exactly what browser session cohorts are having issues. Open source, https://github.com/Faultsense/faultsense-agent
OskarMA 22 hours ago [-]
“Paste a pile of links. Get useful categories back.”
Hello! I am building and testing a tool that categorizes links as the tagline above suggests into a searchable and viewable human friendly timeline. My goal is to make a nice tool that helps me transform my old link piles to something I can use - and for full transparency maybe earn me some of that token money back eventually?!
I am speaking to initial customers and from my initial pain at my day job it was going to be a way to be "Lovable for your existing product" . But it also seems like it might turn into "internal cloud to host dashboards non-technical people are making with Claude".
I'd love to talk to anyone that's in Product or Ops or Sales or Account Management or Customer Success who'd either like to make changes to their existing product without the need for a developer. Or maybe they have thrown something together with Claude and have no idea how to "get it into production".
Have spent the last month giving the UI a bit of a modernisation refresh and simplifying/improving some elements based on early user feedback. There's also been a boat load of performance improvements in the dirarisation and document generation pipeline.
Underpinning my current app is an e2ee local-first sync engine, basically it is a traditional client-server sync (encrypted logs + snapshots sequenced with integers). It sends bundles of Loro CRDT operations. I wrapped the client side in WASM to power the web app and the CLI and have started a swift wrapper to port to native iOS. Bundle size is 3MB/1.2MB g-zipped so pretty happy with it. I've realised that web encryption is kind of bs (at least not as "WE CAN NEVER ACCESS YOUR DATA" as some vendors state) if someone else is distributing the app.
Over the last week I have done a lot of performance work & data remodeling - CRDTs are interesting because you can let data fall through the gaps if you're not careful.
Working on project-hami.io, but recently decided that all the new markdown based presentation tools have far too much HTML dependency, so I decided to build my own, with custom extensions and plugins. It's supposed to support some basic structures that allow easy creation of presentations, but the editable odp conversion is proving to be a nightmare. It should be possible, but I need help.
Makes it easy to use Claude Code or Codex interchangeably across multiple computers. Personal editions are free, I have a hosted commercial cloud (workgroups share AI history) and commercial self-hosted option available.
It has macOS and Linux clients and I released a guide for setting up the source-available, self-hosted cloud option this week: https://contextify.sh/docs/self-hosted/
I am thinking about the other AI cli environments and providing support for those as well.
Atotalnoob 2 days ago [-]
The color of the text and background of the Linux button contrast poorly in my opinion. It made it a bit hard to read.
bredren 1 days ago [-]
Thanks for that. I updated the page.
If you have time to try the app out, I'd appreciate any further feedback.
maz1b 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Agentic AI Super App for medical and dental school. You can think of it as literally everything one would need from day one of admission till graduation day as a doctor.
I myself am the first medical doctor and full stack engineer in the history of my country (250 million), graduated as a doctor at age 25, and we have over 100+ users [all of which are medical/dental students and doctors], 10s of billions of seconds studying smarter, hundreds of millions of questions solved, and more.
Our Super App has subsystems including MedGPT, MedAgent, Spaci (our own take on spaced repetition) and much more.
We're bootstrapped, and continuing to scale. If you are in medical school or know someone who is, please reach out!
I’m working on a NotebookLM competitor, sort of an open-notebook in the cloud with a lot of features I’ve added (and made available as either PRs back to the base repo or public fork) such as a plugin system to add more generated “creations” or a quick way to spin up your own compatible cloudflare workers ai setup to test out models. I’m trying to incorporate the same bookmarking features I love so much with Raindrop.io (big fan) and experimenting with a new wiki generation feature. It’s only soft launched but happy for any feedback. https://notebooker.ai
deadbeef7f 2 days ago [-]
I am building a device that turns the headless Echelon exercise bikes (and rowers?) into fully featured bikes without using their predatory app.
If interesting in receiving a beta testing unit, let me know!
I went on a side quest to strip out ProseMirror and markdown-it and implement a custom stack instead. I open sourced both the parser and editor (https://saturn9.studio/technology/):
A keyboard-driven flowchart editor. This is a re-incarnation of a previous attempt. I’m still working on autolayout but I’m much happier with this version:
Pretty much just SwiftUI-like layout/style in TypeScript with a bunch of utility tools from other languages I like, like Rust's payload enums, table helpers, LINQ-like queries, state management, etc. It's framework neutral so it works with React, React Native, and Vue right now. Everything is just plain TypeScript that compiles to the DOM, so no HTML or CSS needed for most normal web apps, they can all be written in plain .ts or tsx files.
G3819 2 days ago [-]
Modern coding agents code blind; they can't see the consequences of their actions. I built a cheap solution that lets them see your browser.
I just launched my digital media shelf on my personal website, a catalog of my favorite books, movies, records, podcasts, and more. Lots of fun to build despite some false starts and fits:
ChatGPT validates your spirals. We help you prevent them.
We're in the middle of v2 over the next few months based on everything we've learned since launching ~a year ago.
As a habitual side project guy for the longest time, it's so satisfying to finally stick to one thing and go really deep. This thread has been highly motivating.
Also finally closed the first real customer on it recently!
I want to get through a large chunk of the open issues the next few weeks and then spend some time building agentic capabilities for it.
I believe a central place to configure database access for your dev team without having to share passwords and with sensible review policies should also help e.g. if claude needs to access production data to validate a premise.
Still have to figure out the right UX though not sure the agent should have the exact same review requirements that a human does. Maybe it needs to be configurable separately
phalangion 2 days ago [-]
I built a world cup tracker into an LED matrix display, and now I'm working on making it useful after the world cup
I was interested in learning more about reverse image search, so I built audioguide.london. It’s a simple image search where you take a photo of an artwork in a gallery, tries to ID it and returns a pre-generated audio and a link to the museum website.
The audios were all generated locally, essentially looking at the contents of the website, running it through a LLM to generate a script and Kokoro for TTS.
I’ve built it as an app for myself almost a year ago, so I deployed it as a vibe coded website in here: https://audioguide.london/
cjlm 2 days ago [-]
https://aportee.ca - interactive walkability maps for Canada where you can pick and mix the amenities that are important to you.
zuluecho17 2 days ago [-]
Working on ZenExpenses. I have been running this personal finance tracker project on my Proxmox for years. Now the time has come for it be released to public. It is a personal finance tracker with simple budgeting. Upload bank statements manually, automatically categorize expenses, set budgets. Nothing exciting but works for my needs. I hope it works for someone out there too.
I built a kind of paas for llms, the idea was to allow my family deploy webs cheap and easy, my family doesn't use It, but It end being very useful form mento deploy small apps. You can check It out on https://onvibe.run there is a list of forkable apps that I use.
I did some kind of meta thing, because bownI can create apps with llm (like Claude) and expose an mcp on theme (like the notes and todolist apps).
I've been automating many chores that i find myself usually doing with email: managing calendar invites, publishing and sharing calendars, but also want it to act like a proxy to avoid giving away my actual email in different services. It's a work in progress but I love cloudflare ai gateway, been using it to bring some ai into the functionalities. Future things: handling newsletters, more ai free use (?)
If you wanna test it, please ping me so I add your email to allowlist!
Been working on it on and off for 4 years now. I used to lead an ML consultancy and one thing I've learned is that data scientist DO NOT understand reverse proxies, nvidia drivers, docker and can not set up complex environments for their projects, especially ones that would support collaborative work.
It's been really fun to work on this, currently working on Kubernetes support.
skreem 2 days ago [-]
Oh this is awesome, will take a look. I’ve had rough experiences with Kubeflow in the past, recently I’ve been using Coder workspaces https://coder.com/ and it’s pretty good but less ML/AI integrated (but, stitched together with Ray autoscaling nodes it can get really nice)
oesa 2 days ago [-]
Yeah, Kubeflow can be rough, we've been down that road too as well.
I really like Coder, but one thing for the life of me I couldn't figure out is that even with the self-hosted version, why does anything have to go through their infra?
With trailer.dev our explicit goal is to have a fulfilling user experience for the following scenario:
- You have servers you own or rent
- You have a team that want some persistent developer workspaces that are running on that server
- You run our 30mb + the server side somewhere and boom, you can have your team(s) work on your project.
If you want we (the trailer team) can run the server component for you, but that's it.
I tried spinning up a coder instance just now again, with docker, and I'm being tunneled through US East Pittsburgh with 117ms of latency for a local dev environment tool :(
skreem 18 hours ago [-]
Oh interesting… I don’t manage it, but one of our teams does fully self host it
Have you tried setting CODER_ACCESS_URL to your own hostnamE/IP? I think that disables the tunnel setup
The copy on your 200kb page is such incomprehensible AI slop that reading it feels like I’m having a stroke.
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JeremyJaydan 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a website directory (intrasti.com), not really sure what the direction is other than I'd like to celebrate the best of the internet in a way that isn't pay to win, manipulative, or anything like that.
It's a slow business and engineering catalyst that I'm making progress with behind the scenes each day. Suffice to say I'm taking the scenic route!
Currently working on a unified website submission flow for submissions and topic creations (topics are collections of websites) and after that I'll be looking into overhauling the whole site focusing on accessibility and how I can make that a great experience.
Did pretty well, only took a day or so. I first had it inventory every MUST, SHOULD, and MAY in the spec, and then let it rip. I did guide it quite a bit to get what I wanted, but at the end I’m pretty happy with it as a first draft.
Helped me learn the spec and will be helpful to hone my dotnet AEP server, and aepbase.
There already existed an aep e2e validator which does a similar thing, but this is more thorough and generates a nice report. It will tell you not just whether your API follows the spec, but also what parts of the spec it does not implement.
CarlJW 1 days ago [-]
Making a little static site to document the AV setup at my church.
Started with just an html page with buttons for shortcuts. Added a few paragraphs and then got tired of writing html. Not many simple wysiwyg desktop html editors surprisingly.
Then discovered Zola, a static site generator that takes md files as content, and adds them to template html files.
Perfect for my little use case. I'm having fun with it :D
rmdes 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on improving my Indiekit https://getindiekit.com (not mine, just a big fan & heavy user, to which I created plugins : https://rmendes.net/changelog/ and also working on a local Ai-stack deployment so that I can put that DGX Spark for a good use !
efazati 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a technical interview service that brings up a real production environment and also lets users use agents and our system tells the interviewer how the candidate really did.
Also, in this environment, users can have a full cluster with Kubernetes, Docker, or normal Linux, with a database and all sorts of dependencies.
Still a few weeks away from getting everything working but it’s functional already and I have a half dozen regular users who’re my beta testers :)
ggitelson 1 days ago [-]
How do you see this as different from VNC? Is there something specific you are working to improve on?
jarym 21 hours ago [-]
Yes, first of all its fully web-native and works over WebTransport + WebRTC plus uses hardware encoding (on host) and decoding (on client) to minimise latency and CPU usage. Plus I'm adding a lot of support for mobile/tablet/VR devices.
fathermarz 2 days ago [-]
Building Critical Infrastructure protection software that helps security teams create real grounded processes that don’t live in spreadsheets and slide decks. https://cabreza.com
Most critical infrastructure orgs don’t have the budget to hire consultants, and even if they do, the deliverable is a deck, or a spreadsheet, or a PDF. We want to help any org of any size create a security regimen outside of these stale and disparate docs. For FREE.
Plus we have additional tools that we are building on top of the free software that will help in other areas besides policies and procedures. Like OSINT of any orgs operational and physical footprints.
It's a bookmark plugin with a couple features I felt were missing from existing bookmark plugins. At my job I often have to navigate large codebases that I didn't write, and it's easy to get lost. This plugin should help with that.
cec 2 days ago [-]
I'm not a big fan of the encroachment of AI into Adobe's apps, so I'm using AI to build a replacement for those apps (a small web-based photo organizer and editor, just the tiny subset of the Lightroom features I need for my workflow)
f311a 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on hexora, a library that detects malicious Python code using static analysis and machine learning.
Recently, I've added a simple ML model to filter out false positives. In the last month, I found and flagged more than 40 malicious Python packages.
Unlike the LLM approach, my library is not susceptible to prompt injection and deobfuscates Python code. Where LLMs see "obfuscated code, potentially harmful", my library decodes it and sees what's happening inside.
I’m working on https://checkpost.dev, a lightweight and easy-to-use osquery manager. It is open source, easy to self-host, and ships as a single binary. It only requires osquery to be installed on the endpoints. Checkpost is readonly and doesn't make any changes on the enrolled hosts.
It can run adhoc or scheduled queries and send the results to ClickHouse, or store them locally in Parquet files and use DuckDB to browse the results. It can also initiate YARA scans and collect the results. It also supports policy evaluation and alerting.
miravmehta 2 days ago [-]
Nice. What's the end-goal of this product look like in next 2 years ?
cv_h 2 days ago [-]
I’m already happy with the current set of features, and I don’t expect to add many new ones. I want Checkpost to be something you can host once and spend very little time managing.
One of my goals while building it was to use it for device posture checks. Currently, alerts can be integrated with VPNs and proxies to allow or deny requests from devices that fail certain checks, but this requires manually parsing the webhooks. Over the next couple of years, I plan to focus on making those integrations easier and more seamless.
Edit: One major feature I’d like to explore is device identity and attestation using TPMs or secure enclaves. This could allow Checkpost to verify that requests are only coming from enrolled devices.
jonnycoder 1 days ago [-]
I spent the last 6 months building Elk Finder (https://elkfinder.com) and just launched a few weeks ago. It's a mapping web app similar to onX Hunt, except I have specific layers for finding ideal elk habitat in September and October (the primary archery and rifle hunting months).
mayank 2 days ago [-]
Spent nights over the last six months combining AI coding agents with containers, spec-driven development, and formal verification, so that I (eventually) don't have to manually review 10k+ lines of AI code a day, or worry about the latest model wiping out my home directory:
I'm building https://mallcop.app, an AI, open-source, cybersecurity monitoring, investigation, and escalation solution. It's rooted in four principles:
1. Analyze data where it resides
2. Connectors and detectors are not a moat
3. MIT license every line of code
4. Fully exploit AI for investigation, maintenance, and self-improvement
MallCop runs on Donuts (e.g. tokens), which I'll happily resell, or you can BYOK and use your inference API of choice.
veyh 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on better UI for my app AutoPTT [1]. It's probably going to look somewhat similar to Discord's settings, except I won't be using Electron. I refuse to use bloated stuff like that, so I'm going to keep using a pure C UI library [2].
Obviously this is going to take a bit more work but at least the resource usage will stay low, which I consider quite important. Especially since gamers are a large portion of the user base.
I needed to get customers for Hyperclast [1], but I kept procrastinating on the go-to-market tasks. I'd rather be building, you know! So I created https://tractionbeast.com/ as a tool for myself. It gives me bite-sized tasks every day. I just review and do them. This completely removes the inertia for me. My other founder-friends like it too so I turned it into a product.
If you're an early stage b2b founder, I'd love to hear your feedback about TractionBeast.
My original idea for this was to compile an Ansible-like playbook to a binary. I made a POC for it around 2020, and then it sat on the shelf. More recently I picked it up again following a more Terraform-like model. It compiles IaC to a binary with all dependencies included, standardized CLI options, autogenerated configs, optional visualization in the browser, and lots of other features.
To people who say just use Terraform: I do, a lot. But it still bothers me enough to try building something different.
Always-free résumé (CV) website and PDF from plain text, grounded in the best resume-writing guide and the best designs.
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metanoia_ 2 days ago [-]
I continue to write and publish one piece per month. July was a review of Vaclav Havel's The Power of the Powerless, integrated with a recent trip to Dominica:
Working on https://metner.app to give micro-preneurs (people with side-hustles) a dedicated web presence to grow businesses focused on local communities.
Goal is to help people move off of relying on Facebook/Instagram groups. And to support people who want to make some beer/coffee money off of their hobbies.
bruceb 14 hours ago [-]
Initial impression is too much information. Multiple things competing for my attention when I land on your page. Trim the text a bit and decide the order of importance of the things you are offering. .
chrislim 2 days ago [-]
I've been working on Wattle (https://wattle.app) for the past six months or so.
It started out in life as a bunch of post-it notes for friends who were watering my plants while I was on holiday, which evolved into a long text message, a Google Doc, a static site, a simple CMS, then Wattle. The more I look around, it seems like there are lots of use cases, so I'm having trouble with my positioning.
"Digital guidebooks for vacation rentals, home swaps, sitters, carers, and more."
The MVP was released last week :)
jorisw 2 days ago [-]
Funny, when I lent out my house I also covered it in PostIts.
When looking at a SaaS idea I always ask myself, "will this add enough value to compete with generic and free tool X?"
If your app is just pictures and text based (with AI search), I wonder if it adds enough value to compete with just a Google Doc that's also text and pictures (which surely also offers AI search). A Google Doc could also use comments to collect questions.
Visiting your home page, I was actually looking for AR (augmented reality) or plain camera powered features. E.g. point at a window sill and say "how do I open this?". Point at the washer controls and say "how do I do a fast wash? How long will it take?".
This could be especially useful for controls/labels in languages that the guest doesn't understand (easy to mistake bleach for detergent in Spanish for example). Maybe auto translation of all textual content and even pictures could be part of your app as well.
chrislim 2 days ago [-]
AR is something that I would love to see for myself!
For this particular scenario though, I've found that both hosts and guests responded far better to simplicity: a familiar UX (images/text) with a nice UI. Now that AI has become mainstream, adding this to search was also received well. Funnily enough, most of the past six months was spent culling features and streamlining/abstracting choices. The AI actually started out as multimodal and was reduced to text-only over time.
What I've learned from users is that a guidebook is non-critical until it is. When a guest can't figure out how the microwave works, they don't want to download an app, learn a new behaviour, and so on. They just want an answer as quickly as possible - from the host, or from a simple guidebook.
It's not so different from the host's perspective. Their focus is hosting, not creating the perfect resource. I added templates and "AI onboarding" (i.e. write a prompt / dump existing info as unstructured text) which people seemed to like. Turns out blank canvas syndrome is very real here as well. The AI organises existing info, creates placeholders for what's missing, and adds suggestions of what could be included.
When the guidebook fails to answer a question, it's logged so that the host can update it directly from the UI.
Completely agree with translation - it's on the list!
jorisw 2 days ago [-]
> they don't want to download an app
From the screenshot/device mocks on your site, I was under the impression that you were making an app for both host and guests to use. There's no 'browser chrome' visible in those pictures.
Could clarify that your app generates a site, or make that apparent from the screenshots.
enigma52 2 days ago [-]
I recently started working on SnapSense, a macOS app that OCRs your screenshots and uses a local LLM to auto-rename them into something readable.
This was solely built after opening the wrong 'Screenshot 2026-06-03 at 6.09.28 PM.png' for the 4th time :|
eg312 2 days ago [-]
With the help of AI & LLMs I restarted working on some of my older side projects. I updated the code and did a landing page for Printable Mockups (a free, open-source drag-and-drop tool for creating device accurate wireframes and sketchpads that you can export as PDFs, print, and sketch on by hand) https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups
I plan to add more features soon.
avlcodemonkey 1 days ago [-]
I've spent a few months building a simple feature management system for .NET - https://featureflags.app. The .NET built in feature management libraries work pretty well. But I wanted an easy to use UI for configuring flags - without having to use Azure.
mark_sz 2 days ago [-]
https://vask.dev - websockets - Pusher alternative. It's Pusher compatible, but way cheaper and powered by Cloudflare.
https://tailstats.com - display data on almost any device (ios,android,macos).I've build this for myself so I don't have to build dashboards or mini-one-purpose-apps and clog menubar/workspace.
It also works with AI agents via API and MCP so agents can create interactive cards.
Primary idea is to evolve from SQL client to a Database Client, where users would be able to host queries, share queries and the work remains auditable.
Previously it was an SQL client, a PopSQL alternative. But I am trying to re-work the architecture so that it can support more databases, and services (query-as-service, query-as-reporting-job, etc).
DangerousYams 2 days ago [-]
https://talkingtomachines.xyz/
Talking to Machines is an interactive AI course.
Each concept be it agents or context window can be experienced and experimented with using fun little widgets designed to help you learn by doing. I've really tried to make the AI course I wish existed. Getting into as much nuance as possible and as much hands-on fun as possible. I would love some feedback.
It's mostly "public" data, but incumbent data vendors charge $90k+ for this data because it has to be acquired and aggregated from 3200+ US counties. This is a lot of work if you aren't using LLMs and agents to do much of the work for you.
I'm trying to make quality parcel data more accessible to everyone.
A CSS/TS React component library inspired by BeOS. Been spending the last week cutting my teeth on font issues however
mikert89 2 days ago [-]
noice
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ajhenrydev 2 days ago [-]
I have a daily puzzle game called https://lettered.io and I’ve been playing around with shareable replay gifs via gifenc. It’s been fun trying to get good looking replays without sacrificing size for quality
The age of AI has been incredible for the daily game space because you can play around with ideas so much faster and riff to find something that works. On the flip side, there’s a lot more games that just rip off another idea and change some mechanic slightly to make it “new”
It’s an AI-powered mock technical interviewing platform, for system design and coding.
I’m also working now on behavioral mocks, with a coach feature!
I’ve been working on it on and off for a year, but started spending significant time in the last few months.
I know everyone’s burnt out on LLM products, but I think it’s nice for this kind of prep since you can do it on demand and in an environment it’s safe to fail as much as you need without judgement so you can actually learn.
It’s early and free if anyone is interested in trying it out (at least while I can afford to serve it for free)
Building an unified admin platform[0] for Source game servers & the alikes. I grew up playing Source games and ran a few, but there were always gaps between all the various OSS plugins you install and were quite fragmented, and never designed to work well with each other.
On the programming front, I've been working on a little self-hypnosis app for myself that I'll probably go ahead and release. And outside of that I've been finishing up a novella draft.
It's like a BuiltWith for Government. I am tracking all UK government spend and building a picture of software and rising/falling trends of various products in the government.
I worked as a government supplier and found it hard to find out what tech/solutions are in place without inside knowledge. My idea is that by opening the data, I can help more suppliers compete and foster innovation.
jason_zig 2 days ago [-]
Scaling Zigpoll[0] to 2M ARR as a solo founder (currently at 1.5 ARR). Each year you double ARR for a business it comes with a whole new set of challenges which are layered on top of the changes in the tech landscape.
Fortunately I think I've been bailed out by agentic coding the last couple months from a product perspective but I think the major gains so far have been due to marketing and exploring alternative growth channels. Even so, keeping momentum is never a given and requires constant output from all angles! Onward...
it is relatively new and untested irl, but interesting as gleam is very nice for fhir in some ways:
-fhir choice types imo were originally designed for some kind of object oriented polymorphism, but are nicer as sum types
-cardinality works nicely with Option for 0..1 and List for 0..*, the only ugly part is if you need primitive extensions and suddenly there are a ton of Option fields
-works with whatever http client you need for erlang or js target, meaning can use on server or in browser
hl7v2 is much uglier than fhir but commonly used eg by state immunization registries, so I am considering gleam types that have message/segment structure, but leave each field as String (as opposed to gleam fhir which uses Bool or whatever for primitive types)
after that not sure some kind of gpl toy emr probably a stripped down version of openemr that uses gleam/lustre and a fhir server instead of php, but this is definitely the mysterious step 3 ??? as there are a lot of features and integrations that take a lot of work or use different formats (hl7v2, ccda...)
I lost a lot of weight on GLP-1s, and on top of that my tastes changed. Instead of IPAs, I like cocktails now, and the transition made me feel like my own internal clock was out of whack.
Also, also: these hard seltzers are totally crushable, waayyyy too easy to drink fast. So this app helps with that, too.
tjhill 2 days ago [-]
- https://banksia.bio: I suspect there is a market for private consumer whole genome sequencing services. Think "Mullvad vpn" of sequencing - I shouldn't have to know the identity of the person I am sequencing, and they can be identified with a client number not tied to their PII.
- lazyslurm: A TUI tool for managing/viewing slurm / HPC setups. Similar to lazygit or lazydocker (https://github.com/hill/lazyslurm)
lnenad 2 days ago [-]
I'm building a low friction logging/metrics platform that allows for easy visibility into your apps. The idea was to make something that isn't really geared towards enterprise and can be used by anyone. I started about 6 months ago and have been testing extensively so far with an internal beta with a few colleagues/friends.
Built AT1C Protocol to make Humans + AI Agents compatible With cryptographic evidence with verified proof "the easiest way to make AI agents EU AI Act compliant, for free, in 15 minutes." https://at1c.com/index.html
motohagiography 1 days ago [-]
there is foresight in this, as there's going to be a cryptographic layer between agents and people at some point, compute complexity is the only thing that can contain them. like a logical field or space that was conceptually equivalent to keeping them light years of distance away. The analogy scales as well.
zahlman 1 days ago [-]
I've been prototyping a bunch of old ideas with the free tier of ChatGPT, bouncing off design ideas and treating it like a pair programmer. Planning a blog post writeup of the general experience (along with saved chats in nicely cleaned-up Markdown) along with a handful of Show HNs.
mumin00 2 days ago [-]
I am working on Stylify. It is an AI based word formatter. It uses local ai models so that nothing leaves the computer. Most of the time is spent on formatting word-docs rather than writing the actual content, that's the reason I thought of building one.
You can see it here in action https://stylifyword.com
deminature 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on https://topicle.com/ An alternative to Reddit that more aggressively polices bots, spam and astroturfing and has strong guardrails in place against bad moderation. No private profiles that bots use to hide, every mod action can be appealed, mod logs are public, LLM posts are blocked. There's so much obviously inauthentic activity and questionable moderation on Reddit, I decided to try addressing it.
matheusmoreira 2 days ago [-]
I usually work on my programming language lone lisp on my free time but I've been feeling burned out lately.
So I started a new side project: decompilation of my cherished childhood video games. Many Mega Man games, starting with Mega Man Battle Network 2.
I just finished polishing and verifying the early initialization routines, and have already traced various parts of the game's engine. I was surprised to discover that it was a huge state machine of sorts. I want to focus on reverse engineering the saving system so I can write a save editor, and the music system so I can listen to the music.
Rahulvvsv 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on dotUI.
A framework for developing UI's where the core logic such as routing, events, state management is defined by the user and the llm handles the styling.
This way every user can have their own UI's without losing functionality.
Will post here regarding it in the coming weeks
Rophlock 1 days ago [-]
I'm building a free browser based hub with a variety of apps that I find useful for me.
For now, I have 8 apps and I'd be grateful if any of you could give me your impressions.
I'd be happy too if any of them could be helpful for you.
I’m working on building AI-backed sms phone numbers for lead generation campaigns needing 24/7 or multilingual support. Less friction than downloading apps or interfacing with chat bots, and just as powerful.
jasondigitized 2 days ago [-]
Tell me more. What's a typical use case?
elpakal 2 days ago [-]
Typical use case can be someone's running an existing campaign (ads, billboard, referrals) and we add a dedicated texting number as the 24/7/multilingual layer on top. No new spend, just coverage after hours or in Spanish etc. Can also serve as the primary feature of a new campaign, admittedly a novel approach but I see there being potential to provide a new channel to reach users where they already are (sms) in extremely saturated markets.
The trickest part of this, and maybe you have solved this is procuring phone numbers for clients. Twilio has put up a TON of friction on getting SMS numbers. I know this because we are doing this on behalf of some very large institutions. Love the idea though!
elpakal 1 days ago [-]
Thanks! Curious what kind of friction you’ve encountered. In my experience buying phone numbers is not hard, finding vanity phone numbers (especially in certain area codes) is because it requires keeping an eye on their rolling availability.
I’ve set up a few 10DLC campaigns as well, it’s a little finicky and takes time but something I can do pretty predictably.
agentifysh 1 days ago [-]
do you have any tips on getting 10DLC when you dont live in America? seems like using any virtual office is impossible they require an actual physical address /office
elpakal 18 hours ago [-]
Ah, I do not unfortunately, except maybe exploring a partnership with someone based in the US (not sure though).
ilusion 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on https://artifacts.iofold.com, a way to use artifacts (self contained html + optional assets like image/video/json) easily across agents, with feedback loop and docsend style wttribiti gates.
Have made it agent friendly enough that my teammates' agents can read and drop commennts on specs/storyboards etc, and my agent can close the loop by iterating with a new artifact version.
mamcx 2 days ago [-]
Rebuilding my long ERP-like project to become more like a "business engine" to become a proper ERP backend (so it can cover most business scenarios and is multi-company, branch, currency, etc).
Have now the core done and working on a MVP UI to validate it.
One of the things I always wish to do properly was to model currency and unit of measure in full as core types, plus truly trace everything related to the business transaction from production to beyond the sale.
Looking into a persistent workflow engine like `temporal` now...
P.D: I'm debating if open source or not, in light of the AI-pocalypse...
This is basically my version of "what all could you throw into Postgres?"
My problem with vibe coding/LLM assisted engineering is that it's hard to get the basic stuff that is independent of the application itself, correct, so I just use this and make sure everything I build has some consistency.
You can pop this in and use it as the base for your app and add login, permissions, etc. quite cleanly.
casper14 2 days ago [-]
I like the idea, the API looks really clean
varun_chopra 2 days ago [-]
Thank you!
thot_experiment 2 days ago [-]
I'm using Gemma 31b to build tools for myself to optimize my WoW TBC play to an absurdist level. I'm hoping to have world top 10 parses across the board in a few months, loot gods willing.
This does review aggregation for businesses, and then a bunch of tools to help you gain insights, respond to reviews, and get more reviews. I just hired my first Sales/Marketing person to scale.
I will create coupon codes for anyone interested! Email is in my bio
It’s pretty. Lots of people have anxiety around the big question. A tool like this can really help.
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simquat 2 days ago [-]
Desktop app bundled with an ai model and a local-first agent so nothing leaves your machine.
Last week I interviewed non-technical people about their experience with AI agents. Many couldn't even use them at all. Either they didn't want to share private data with ChatGPT or company policy prohibited it.
For those of you working with sensitive files – contracts, client records, financials, HR docs – I'd love to hear how you handle this today: simone [at] breadboards.io
defrim 2 days ago [-]
A local, static-image wallpaper manager (kinda like Wallpaper Engine but for directories of images)
Made it for myself because windows wallpaper/background management is horrible lol, avail on linux though too
I built my own weather prediction / visualization app: https://wx.rsp.li (on-device temperature lapsing, on device interpolation modes, user-selectable aggregations, etc…). One of these days I should do a writeup.
This month I continue working on to refine my coding agent harness https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode. Recently, I've added back Anthropic Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI GPT 5.6 models family (Sol, Luna, Terra). Fortunately, I've had support from the open source community and VT Code has advanced. I hope you give it a try.
LuD1161 2 days ago [-]
Policy guardrails for Coding Agents.
Never babysit your agents - github.com/lud1161/agentjail
· OS native sandbox (<4ms start-time)
· Policies for AWS, local files, k8s, DBs etc.
· Rego backed policies w/ OPA (CNCF Graduated project)
· Fastest policy evaluator (<3ms)
Please star the repo if you like the work.
ChrisMarshallNY 2 days ago [-]
I continue to work on version 2 of a product that’s been shipping for the last couple of years. I’m not linking to it, because the last thing it needs, is a bunch of folks registering single-use accounts, only to find it doesn’t interest them, but we need to wait a year, to delete the resource hog they registered.
Version 2 is a significant upgrade, and is a bottom-to-top rewrite of both the backend server, and frontend app.
I’ve been using an LLM extensively, and it’s been a huge help. I have, however, also run into its limitations.
seveibar 2 days ago [-]
tscircuit! An open source framework for building circuits, we have a lightening fast autorouter so i spend lots of time debugging complex PCB routing problems
gremlin0 2 days ago [-]
I am working on a fast, local desktop search engine. GlintIndex indexes your files and provides instant full-text search. It is in an early stage of development, and I have not reached the MVP level yet. Contributions, issues, and suggestions are welcome.
I’m building an AI search assistant and autonomous AI agent for real estate, powered by MLS property data via my tool mlsync.io [1].
It’s designed to go beyond static filters to actively research, compare listings, analyze photos, watch listings, setup notifications etc... - basically an "OpenClaw for real estate."
I’m working on a synthetic control arm for a heart valve trial using synthetic patients from both the heart valve registry (in the near future) and a frozen EHR encoder. It’s pretty fun exercise.
murukesh_s 2 days ago [-]
I am building https://nexaflow.com - a customer support AI agent with built-in modules so small businesses need not buy 4-5 services to run a business. We ship with CRM, Ticketing, Appointment/Scheduler, Booking management system (for Small clinics, etc). Nexaflow agents can answer (and take action on) customer queries coming from Whatsapp, Email, Web (widget) and more.
ge96 2 days ago [-]
Nothing, I'm trying to get my passion back, lost it for a couple months now, not sure if it was from the binge drinking
I used to build hardware projects, write code but lately been coasting
Xantier 2 days ago [-]
Still kicking around with https://viberglass.io to assist the whole development team (or smaller companies) to work together on development. Hoping to open source a better multiplayer experience on it over the next few weeks and then it's moving self-hosting options towards other cloud providers.
I got sick of choosing between the efficiency of working in a terminal and the magic powers of using AI (and of copy-pasting between the two). So I created a hybrid: Terminai is a transparent wrapper for any terminal that provides on-demand access to a TUI coding agent of your choice just a hotkey away (with built-in MCP and CLI that gives the AI access to your terminal).
I have ADHD, and my calendar is a graveyard of things that were totally fine right up until they were on fire.
So about to release an iOS app that sends me early notifications about what to actually prepare, or do.
Best examples so far: on my last trip it pinged me the night before with a packing list based on the weather at my destination. Also reminding me to book a table for a dinner planned.
I released my first web game on CrazyGames recently https://mechacraft.io with about 40 CCU and I'm now working on my second one https://nickvanurk.com/voidfall. I'm also available for remote work :)) (discord: jycerian)
This month I've been working on the free desktop version which is available as of today but probably carries a few too many bugs to not be worth promoting just yet.
a_c 1 days ago [-]
3D model construction of climbing gym. There is so much detail a normal climbing video can't show. Wall angle, hip position. I'm hoping to overlay human model, taken from climbing video, onto the 3D wall to make climbing visualization easier.
vmandela 2 days ago [-]
I am vibecoding a elixir/phoenix agent dashboard to manually & closely review the coding agent plans and code patches for my day job. I am at a stage where I can I use portal to work on the portal and my day job.
I have not yet figured out a way to live reload the dashboard itself after a feature addition or a bug fix. :-(
sntran 1 days ago [-]
I'm working on a boring e-commerce site from scratch, with the boring stack of Phoenix Live View, PostgreSQL, HTML and CSS. You know, the boring stuffs.
I just don't use AI building it. It actually brings me joy amidst all these AI news and updates.
bakkerinho 2 days ago [-]
Currently further developing https://www.brickifyme.com, where i added a anon process for generating the images and running some A/B tests.
Also working on https://wk-pool.com to further develop it for not only World Cup predictions, but aiming to compete with Scorito in two years!
ta8903 2 days ago [-]
I had problems waking up and was looking for an alarm clock on Amazon. But I could only find analog clocks with the famously unreliably moments, and digital clocks which were overpriced and looked ugly. This feels like a real gap in the market, so I'm working on making my own alarm clock. It's a simple enough project but includes PCB design and modelling the case, etc, which I don't have experience in.
wesammikhail 2 days ago [-]
I've had an idea for a different type of free & open search engine for the last 15 years. I ended up pursing other ideas instead over the years.
Last month however I decided to go back to the idea and give it a shot. Right now I'm in the process of scraping and building a huge index. The technical challenges have been plenty. But I should be ready to publish an alpha version by end of month or so.
NDlurker 2 days ago [-]
Vibe coded a flashcard web app to help me learn Bangla.
Vibe coded with my brother (he did most of the work) firmware for the X4 e-reader to turn it into a word processor and flashcard app
shandiz 2 days ago [-]
I ran into the same performance issues when reviewing Next.js apps, so I made a tool that scans Next.js sites and tells you what's slow. It's basically a performance tool that works best with Next.js apps, and highlights things like slow LCP, heavy JavaScript, and third-party impact and gives you suggestions and prioritizes them. Here is the link if anyone wants to check it out:
There's competition in the other TCGs, and of course a 2-sided marketplace is one of the hardest things to seed. So this is mostly just a project that I can put any fresh ideas into that I wouldn't be able to at my dayjob.
lisperforlife 2 days ago [-]
I am making it easy to embed coding mode AI agents into SaaS applications. We have a WinterTC compatible custom JS runtime that lets the agents write code to accomplish tasks and a SDK to embed agents into your SaaS apps. We help you write skill files on our coding agent against your API and use our frontend SDK to embed the agent into your app a.la Intercom. See https://uraiai.com/
sifik 2 days ago [-]
recently, i have been pondering around reddit and its api, because i was missing an "idea validator" which will harness the power of reddit and its content, so it gave me the idea to build https://signalseek.cc/
(SignalSeek watches the subreddits your buyers already hang out in, scores what it finds, and tells you if the demand is real enough to build on. When it is, it drafts the replies so you can jump into the conversation right away)
Sharable, real-time synced maps, Google Docs for maps basically.
I think the coolest part is the import feature where you can paste a link to a video or article and it pulls out places and enriches them with images and a description. You can also write your own notes, vote on places to go with friends, and apply colors. Right now I am working on user acquisition and experimenting with different marketing approaches.
tordrt 2 days ago [-]
An "agent orchestrator" (or whatever you want to call it) that supports any cli agent. Trying to optimize for reducing cognitive load for working on different tasks at the same time with agents.
Currently doing final polishes on adding support for making it simple and easy to run agents and review the code remotely over ssh.
Jumping into this "handcrafted with love by a small indie shop" landscape of commercial Mac apps, with Mojave Paint, my Photoshop and Affinity Photo competitor. https://mojavepaint.app
leemorris 2 days ago [-]
Finishing up my masters dissertation comparing approaches to EV charge scheduling.
The core of the whole thing is a generic experimentation framework that allows for easy comparison of approaches along with synthetic charging session generation.
I’m then using the to compare linear optimisation to a reinforcement learning approach, and seeing the effects of modelling power efficiency etc.
We're extending the Web Preview: https://tritium.legal/preview to be embeddable as a WASM bundle for folks on platforms that need a document editor.
hxii 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on adding better Obsidian support to my personal SSG – Hajime [1], in an effort of making it a somewhat solid Obsidian Publish alternative.
The main point is adding relationships between the entries, as that's the bread and butter of Obsidian.
I'm working on a Claude Code governance tool that allows to define deterministic policies for tool call that can be enforced across a fleet and will be in effect even when individual users run with --dangerously-skip-permissions
Building out a housing heatmap of England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland publish housing data differently, working on getting them integrated!
Something very small and simple compared to other ambitious projects here :)
A TUI to control a crazyflie nano drone. This is mostly a rust learning project - but insanely fun because it leads to something flying through my living room.
I am building https://EasyAnalytica.com - single place for all your dashboards. It generates dashboards automatically from data without using ai. It supports getting data from google sheets, api's, url's etc. I have recently added support for gsc as data source and i plan to continue adding more in coming weeks.
rocky007cn 2 days ago [-]
I'm managing my GitHub repository. I created a really great project - better than even Mem0's product. It can make AI companies' products smarter and is also awesome for auditors, lawyers, and so on. But I have no way of letting people know about it
joelm 2 days ago [-]
I want fast answers to questions like:
"Why is Zoom lagging?"
"Is the issue my WiFi?"
"What's going on with the Internet?"
So, I built a local Mac utility that runs in the menubar to give at-a-glance visibility into live network and application issues. It's free (for typical uses), battery-efficient, and gives fast and reliable answers.
Salahmate (https://salahmate.app) - A mobile app that helps Muslims build the habit of praying gently.
joshuakcockrell 2 days ago [-]
I’m working on Envelope. https://envelopebudgeting.com It’s a budgeting app that comes with a built in checking account and debit cards. Because your budget can actually decline card transactions it’s a very effective system for stopping overspending.
I’m currently migrating the codebase to Swift 6 and dealing with the new concurrency system.
ryan_rhobic 1 days ago [-]
I made a sensor-less FOC controller with Fable in Rust as an experiment this past weekend, it actually works... https://rhobic.com/
v4d1mv 2 days ago [-]
Java Server Side Rendering Web Framework -- zero external runtime dependencies outside the web server layer -- https://github.com/vadimv/server-components
The idea is to provide complete Java-centric modern web UI stack for building internal tools and admin panels.
I’m working on SprigEdit. A wysiwyg markdown editor that focuses on a beautiful and pleasant writing experience. Https://sprigedit.com
Perhaps the coolest feature is it is fully native, and yet still runs on web, windows, macOS, iOS, and android due to a shared core and platform native ui layer.
vkaku 2 days ago [-]
I recently decided to build and run my own training free inference engine... and it worked.
I'm doing a personal research project into the technical maturity of ccTLDs. So far I've mostly been working with easily accessible public information, which I'm almost ready to publish, but the next phase is going to be trying to identify markers of stack complexity (provisioning etc) which is going to be tricky.
I'd love to hear from anyone else doing work in this area!
BilalBudhani 2 days ago [-]
I'm building https://supadesk.ai - An AI agent platform to help businesses manage their front-desk.
I launched beta last month with a couple of customers in pilot phase. It has been great learning experiencing building my first AI agent tool and running it in production.
davidpapermill 2 days ago [-]
Nice, which frameworks are you using? What did you learn from customers?
I'd consider a different name to avoid issues with supabase should you take off.
BilalBudhani 2 days ago [-]
Thanks,
My tech stack consists of:
- Ruby on Rails
- Vue.js + Inertia.js
- PostgreSQL
- TailwindCSS with Shadcn Vue UI
the app runs on Hetzner VM deployed via Kamal.
I'm planning to do a detailed blog post on the tech stack soon.
I found initial customers by manual outreach within my network.
I don't see any potential issue with Supabase. Both names are drastically different and we serve different markets. Besides, there are plenty of other products name with "supa" prefix.
davidpapermill 2 days ago [-]
Thanks, would really like to read the blog post.
Are you using any of the major agentic frameworks (Mastra, LangSmith etc)? Or is the AI harness etc entirely custom-built?
BilalBudhani 2 days ago [-]
I'm using RubyLLM which is an incredible framework for building agents.
With all the supply chain attacks on OSS ecosystems targeting developers, PMG is a practical protection using a combination of threat intel, policy and sandbox.
It’s a package firewall on the terminal really. It has been surprisingly effective against most of the recent attacks.
TZubiri 2 days ago [-]
How is this different from your competitors like Socket dev?
Keloran 2 days ago [-]
This month I have mainly been building my fork of tiny-dfr so that my 2019 mbp touchbar isn’t useless when on hyprland/cosmic
Unfortunately due to the way GitHub defaults to creating prs in the parent fork, I have accidentally created a few invalid prs in asahi before I was ready, and now am banned from creating a good upstream one
jdw64 2 days ago [-]
I'm creating my own language using AI.
About half of the C backend I wrote myself, and I'm putting in the syntax I want and the things I want to create.
I'm not sure if it will be finished.
https://github.com/srtdog64/PergyraLang
Built in Swift, SwiftUI for the iOS app and Python for the backend.
oakst 2 days ago [-]
Local voice dictation and text editing for Mac. We'd tried most of the available options but wanted something that runs completely locally, is fast and has a good UX.
In summary, I pull public motion votings and do any kind of processing I want to give people a better insight in how the Dutch parties vote. There's a voting compass that gets a bit busy before elections.
It was a project by Erwin and I would like to continue the work.
I'm looking at the long-term image and have high hopes other countries would enjoy this too
cksmct 2 days ago [-]
I am working on 2 football game websites, one for world cup https://7-0worldcup.org/,and the other for Top 5 leagues https://38-0.one/
Developing game is easy now, but it is really hard for promotion.
A News Platform aggregator collecting sources of information across the internet (socials, newswires, etc.) and trying to push context to humans in a more digestible form. We are also experimenting with defining lineage of information using AI to help people try to piece the puzzle together as information flows in.
degecko 2 days ago [-]
I'm building https://rewindly.app, a tool which records the screen for 15s to 1h (configurable) and allows you to view your recent activity. It's basically instant replay for PC activity.
Still a small plattform for groups of gamers to share their library with each other and suggest and vote on games for a game night.
I'm planning on a group finder feature where you can publicly search for others to play with you, currently it's more angled at existing groups.
https://wrappercheck.com - it is a tool that helps you validate your startup idea with market and competitior anaylsis, market fit, revenue vs expenses etc. I am open to improvements and suggestions
gramTech 2 days ago [-]
During the last 2 month i've been working on an experiment which have as an objective to see how an AI managing a forum and creating its own rule behave in this environment with human interaction: https://gram.lelabs.tech/
ayaros 2 days ago [-]
Rewriting the region drawing code in my LisaGUI project so it does per-word bitwise operations instead of per-pixel calculations. I'm using Claude to help plan and debug it, but I'm being careful to review all its outputs and make sure I fully understand what it's suggesting and why. I don't want to lose all my neurons to this thing...
A game programming language that makes your game multiplayer automatically. This month I’ve been developing the tutorials so it’s easier to learn.
zimver 2 days ago [-]
https://timelinetranslate.com
Translate any video or subtitle file into any other language. Launched yesterday and geared towards video editors with a DaVinci Resolve plugin. Delivers more control and ownership of the editorial process compared to other automated dubbing or subtitling.
dumbmachine 2 days ago [-]
Created a react-doctor style cli to deterministically scan for misconfigurations, missing observability, and security posture.
Now working on extending it so vibe-coders can secure their apps too!
I am building Bloomberry (https://bloomberry.com), an alternative to tools like BuiltWith/Wappalyzer to provide sales signals when companies subscribe or churn from over 1600 B2B tech products. Think backend/backoffice tools like Hubspot CRM, or Netsuite, or Microsoft 365, rather than frontend technologies like Wordpress or React.
knlam 2 days ago [-]
I created a setapp alternative at https://getapps.cafe. 40 local-first apps and counting and yes I use claude code to help building all these apps (and I do read the code). It is so much easier now to start and create small, self contained apps and I do the future is local/privacy by default apps
johnsutor 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on so101-nexus, an open-source sim-to-real stack for the SO-100/SO-101 robot arms where you can record teleop demos, behavior-clone a policy, then fine-tune with RL. The goal is to be very compatible with Gymnasium, MuJoCo, and LeRobot.
This is an open source tool to run background coding agents + dev environment in isolated VMs. So far it has allowed me to migrate a majority of long running coding sessions to my homelab to run remotely. I can also run multiple in parallel without worrying about race conditions or my host machine breaking.
Igor_Wiwi 2 days ago [-]
Adding more and more features to https://mdview.io (the best way to read technical docs). Now I am adding CLI support for the features like publishing, custom slug creation, pdf rendering and more
jvanderbot 2 days ago [-]
Inspired by the Vint Cerf discussions, I'm hoping to renew my interest in space exploration as a hobby sim/ coding project.
Free, open-source and drop-in replacement for Studio-3T. All the featured behind Studio-3T subscription for free in OzenDB.
Released beta version recently. Feel free to check out. Will be glad for feedback)
eignerchris_ 2 days ago [-]
I'm converting an AI-powered Finance app I built for my wife and I into a more feature-rich product: https://www.heyalistair.com
xuejie 2 days ago [-]
Note: this involves blockchain VMs. If that's a dealbreaker, feel free to skip. I get it.
I've spent 8 years working on RISC-V VMs for blockchains, recently also contributing to ZK VMs. Modern blockchain VMs are drastically more powerful, and I'm curious how far we can push them. I started porting real game logic to blockchain VMs, running game loop, physics simulation, collision detection, etc., on blockchain VMs. So far I have:
Source is available for 2 of the 3, I need to clean up the OHOL one.
Some context: CKB-VM [1] is a RISC-V virtual machine I designed for Nervos starting in 2018. Jolt ZK VM [2] is a zero-knowledge virtual machine developed by a16z. Both execute RISC-V code, but due to different design, Jolt ZK VM is a much faster CPU than CKB-VM.
Technically this is a fun challenge. Many techniques I used resemble game development tricks from the 90s on game consoles: fixed point math, banked memory in ROMs, aggressively inlining tricks, etc. I want to push to see where the ceiling is. Right now I'm trying to get a Godot [3] + JoltPhysics [4] game loop running on Jolt ZK VM.
Happy to answer questions about the VM internals, the porting process, or anything in general.
I'm working on leveraging NLP and LLM techniques to create a geometry over the discrete space of Ethereum transaction execution structure. (sorry... it's a bit of a mouthful)
The goal is to find on-chain structural anomalies, as well as seeing if clustering by behavior has emergent semantic properties
motohagiography 1 days ago [-]
I think i know where you're going with it, but what is the Why for the semantic properties? Is it to characterize a given address, predict behavior?
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otter-in-a-suit 2 days ago [-]
Still noodling on https://skaldmaps.com, which lets you compare and rank all US ZIP codes, counties, and census tracts to find good places to move to and/or invest in.
Based on an early prototype that helped me find our current house.
stack_framer 2 days ago [-]
I'm building a family game server that will host web-based games on my local network (although I'm thinking about using something like Cloudflare Tunnel to make it available on the internet).
The first game I'm building is the card game Phase 10, and I'm done with phases 1-7. After that, I'd like to build Carcassonne, and maybe Jeopardy.
Most recently, adding SID support, and adding timing information to the emulated formats that don’t have any tagged song duration (e.g., converting NSF to NSFE). This means playing the songs one by one and watching for repeated sequences of writes to the sound chip registers.
adammfrank 2 days ago [-]
I'm using AI to build a project to teach me SQL.
I use claude code to build the lessons, and then I complete them myself. I've done this for a few topics already, and I think it's one of the most amazing things you can do with LLMs.
Working on https://razzify.in - Learn hacking using CTF challenges and get hired.
https://securepilot.in - Indias first cybersecurity incident management platform for individuals.
EuanReid 2 days ago [-]
A web and mobile app for tracking cellar contents that doesn't feel dated or clunky, and with which I can make assorted dynamically-updating menus for different use cases. I'll probably do a Show HN once it's live.
rogutkuba 2 days ago [-]
Been building a open-source technical interview platform. Trying to keep the existing ideas of async coding assessments + live programming interviews, but want to add features for the new interview formats I see of take-home projects + AI coding agent interviews
I’ve been working on Hype Doc. I built it for myself and hope others find it useful. I decided to build the mobile apps too and that process is way more work than I expected. It’s been fun though to dive into Rails 8 in the process.
I am working on a Leal AI OS for West Africa called Isabilaw.com
At the moment it is launched for Nigeria, as a chatbot for the MVP. - www.isabilaw.com
It will spin off to two product offering that will solve Legal and Compliance issues in West Africa
iceman28 2 days ago [-]
I’m working on https://main-duck.com/ which simplifies converting your code to mcp. I plan to make this easy to integrate into CI so mcps can be updated easily. It’s hosted remotely and I’m very excited about where it’ll go.
reinitctxoffset 2 days ago [-]
Production-worthy formatter for lean4.
Right now it copes with important open source libraries on the model of clang-format's configuration, which is a real trick given the partial elaboration you need (with backtracking). But that works.
mathlib4 is the final boss, I don't currently even have a plan without per-directory quirks files which is probably a nonstarter.
I follow a bunch of gaming rss feeds just to keep up with what’s new in the industry. Figured I’d take those and turn them into a news aggregator to put them all into one place. Threw in some game deals/affiliate to pay the web hosting bills (hasn’t paid for anything yet, lol).
8-prime 2 days ago [-]
I've started building a visualization tool for mobile robots using the VDA5050 communication standard.
There are some solutions already out there but most are either slow, resource intensive, or both. Especially for larger fleets of robots.
I'm using it to learn more about VDA5050, Rust and wgpu.
It's a calculator for what an AI feature costs to serve. Cost per request, cost per month, which part of the bill is eating you (output tokens, usually). No signup, all the math is on the page. Any feedback is welcome.
Abakaranas 2 days ago [-]
Research, trade, and watch crypto markets all-in-one terminal without juggling tabs, feeds, and exchange windows.
I've been working on an OBDII scanner application for my port of Tock to the Microchip SAMV71. The idea is that it will help prove out the CAN peripheral in a real world environment before I start layering other things like UDS on top of it.
phw 2 days ago [-]
I've been building WhyNotLog to answer tricky questions using statistics. Example questions include "what gives my dog allergies?" or "what affects my sleep?".
Available at https://whynotlog.com and promo code HACKERNEWS gives access to the pro plan for six months.
Paradigm2020 2 days ago [-]
Website is not working in vietnam
royosherove 2 days ago [-]
Working on full stack prototyping agents that own their own Aws account (zero deploy friction). Think speed of lovable/ base44 with power of Aws services
Search is currently provided by the Radio Browser API, but I'm now building my own station API with proper metadata and thumbnail coverage. A station discovery page with most played stations is also in the making.
Taking a bit of a detour with self-hosting the language, now that the syntactic surface, standard library, and initial dependency strategy are on a decent footing.
With any luck, by the end of the week, I'll start prepping for a 0.0.1 release.
i_am_rocoe 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on a variation of MTP that recovers PP TPS (back to the same as with MTP disabled), keeping most of MTP's benefits to TG TPS.
Will propose a patch back to llama.cpp or provide it as a fork.
gojkoa 2 days ago [-]
combining idea banks/feature request boards with popular product management surveys, with the idea to help people discover better signals from the noise of user feedback, and then follow up with interested users for in-depth research. We used to do this combining several tools for a SaaS product that we sold last year, and I thought it would be useful to build a unified service so everything is in a single tool. An early version (useful but not fully polished) is live at https://www.votito.com
pavo-etc 2 days ago [-]
An alternate web client for Jira that doesn't take a 1GB of ram and slow as molasses.
Taper - A minimalist, journal-inspired race planner for athletes. Everything you need for race day—notes, gear, nutrition, logistics and strategy—in one workspace.
https://gotaper.app
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alexgandy 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on https://gaffer.sh in my spare-time. It's been a fun way to learn how to (semi?) effectively work with LLMs and AI coding tools.
saranshjyt 2 days ago [-]
I made an e-commerce tool for textiles designers to source inventory and produce real garments and handwoven products from artisans in Italy and India. Check it out jaalyantra.com
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adam_th 2 days ago [-]
Job application tracker that gives you role details at a glance, emails you practice interview questions and helps with cover letters
https://rolerecall.com
radku 2 days ago [-]
I've built a voice app for controlling Claude code / Codex sessions and having a lot of fun with it.
I can start a remote tmux session from my laptop, close the lid, grab my airpods and continue on the same sessions while in a gym or a bicycle.
Planning to open source it soon.
jrflo 2 days ago [-]
Scrolless, a Safari extension that keeps all the human parts of social media (search, DMs, stories, posts from friends) while removing all the algorithmic garbage designed to suck up your attention.
I am working on Spreadsheet Preview, embed and preview Excel files in any website/web app. Just like PDF.js for pdf files. Check it out at https://spreadsheetpreview.com
jesseandringa 2 days ago [-]
Working on a instagram alternative. Trying to figure out how to grow a user base, when my companies goals are 'non-addictive', 'good for you', ad free social media.
pianopatrick 2 days ago [-]
This month I worked on my own AI agent written in POSIX shell. It's been surprisingly useful for debugging command line problems on an old laptop running linux, like fixing an apt problem.
An acoustic analyzer for a sink basin in a hackerspace. It will allow for automatic detection of dishes/cups left in the sink without cameras and can be handled by an rp2040. So far looks like it has very low false positives but can only successfully detect certain materials or large masses.
welanes 2 days ago [-]
I released Humm[1] last week. Realtime speech-to-text with a focus on privacy. No backend, no telemetry - just a fast, nicely designed app wrapping local stt models.
I'm doing a learning project(strictly no AI): writing a recursive dns resolver from scratch. It's been fun reading the DNS RFCs, implementing the wire protocol, and writing code by hand.
kriz9 2 days ago [-]
I frequently found myself needing to convert video files and everything is either paid, needs login, full of ads, or uploads your files. So I built my own tool that has none of that.
A daemon-focused CLI driven music player for GNU/Linux.
I recently got it working with playerctl by exposing it to dbus using zbus, great fun.
https://git.2137697.xyz/salmon/rsplayer
I am working on a reddit lead generator that pings you when someone wants a product like yours in real time, and It does so only when the intent is high.
Was using this only for my self, but i think it might be interesting for other people as well.
Are you using the reddit api or scraping new reddit posts/replies?
backend_dev82 2 days ago [-]
Scraping. I applied for the token but never heard back. Reddit doesn't want new devs working on it.
justAnotherHero 2 days ago [-]
Had the same experience with upwork, feels like the door has closed on easy api access to big site data, ironically funneling people's money to proxies and other scrape helpers instead of their own api.
backend_dev82 2 days ago [-]
Yeah, perhaps its due to noone wants LLMs trained on their data for free. I don't know, at least for reddit there are still ways to get the data for free.
boogieknite 2 days ago [-]
An AR ArcGIS Map viewer in Apple Vision Pro.
A Pre-listing checklist tool for Apple Vision Pro.
A custom widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder for applying relationships to unrelated, unowned data.
maxibenner 2 days ago [-]
Working on a n extensible OSS tool to turn public Instagram accounts into rss feeds so I can quit Instagram for good https://rss.numbersoffice.com.
bradleybeddoes 2 days ago [-]
A competitive word guessing game, play against family/colleagues etc, it tracks your solves and some other fun metrics. Totally free, no ads or other crap. No login needed to play.
nice and fun project, maybe run ads on the site, how to monitize?
bradleybeddoes 2 days ago [-]
No monetisation needed. It's for people to enjoy and to be a real world project I can use to do agent experiments with from code through to devops type stuff.
Have fun!
catuscubitus 2 days ago [-]
https://gymify.it to seamlessly integrate exercise into daily life. Let me know if you have any feedback :)
Took ages understanding how to route edges to not overlap labels.
kidnoodle 2 days ago [-]
I’ve been playing around with using llms to recommend me books I can get from my local library based on the model’s latent knowledge of books it has ‘read’ and a conversation with it about books I’ve liked.
stuartd 2 days ago [-]
Photos Wallpaper - recreates the functionality from older Mac OS versions to rotate photos from your library as wallpaper, changing on a schedule.
Written by Codex with me driving product direction, reviewing, testing, occasionally scolding, and handling the release process.
Accepted onto the Mac App Store last week.
kilowatt 2 days ago [-]
A platformer game where you can become 1 dimensional and follow surfaces as a line: https://myth-game.pages.dev
Space - Jump / E - Attack
Curious if it works on your browser.
nazcan 2 days ago [-]
I tried it on Firefox, but see it failed because it doesn't have WebGPU (on linux). Same thing on Chromium actually:
main.js:145 Myth browser startup failed Error: WebGPU adapter was not available.
at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9)
at async main.js:61:3
(anonymous) @ main.js:145
main.js:146 Error: WebGPU adapter was not available.
at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9)
at async main.js:61:3
marshall2016 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on an open source e-card app that help people celebrate life moments together: https://cardjoy.app
ichiriac 2 days ago [-]
Working on Morpheus, an experiment to improve tool usage over small llm like Qwen 30b by introducing JEPA (https://github.com/ichiriac/morpheus)
nha1 2 days ago [-]
I _just_ published https://klar.im/ a local-first AI spam filter for Apple Mail on mac.
It is build using a model that can classify messages (ham/spam/marketing), packaged for Apple Mail but could be used in other places.
apt-cacher-ultra: To help reduce the impact of future DDoSes of Ubuntu. Just released 1.0 yesterday after working on it a couple months.
As that DDoS was going on I realized that some of our dev and staging processes were impacted by it, and that apt-cacher-ng was doing nothing to help us.
apt-cacher-ultra snapshots the repo meta-data after verifying it, and only promotes it if the metadata all checks out. Additionally, it can optionally keep a list of "hot" packages, and can include those in the snapshot calculation.
Additionally, apt-cacher-ng would regularly choke and require some handholding. I'm hoping -ultra resolves that as well.
A minimal, immutable Unix-based OS with built-in attestation and runtime integrity for deploying server applications in microVMs - https://www.gingercybersecurity.com/
tha_infra_guy 2 days ago [-]
Still working on https://compears.shop we’ve added some new features to help people shop in the EU for cheap. I’m hoping we get to expand this to more EU countries
I struggle with terminology so I made a little Gnome utility for easier LLM-based terminology lookups from a highlighted word/term + contextual screenshot. So far it's working pretty well, kinda like a better version of the Mac OS or Kindle ones.
Dashron 2 days ago [-]
When I switched from engineering to product, I tried a bunch of different user insight tools. They all had their strengths and weaknesses, but they always felt... off. They gathered feedback well but it wasn't easy to answer the questions I was asking, and it was a huge chore to keep it organized.
You hook up your user feedback source (via widget or API) and it will organize everything by content category (e.g. billing) or target (e.g. a specific page, API endpoint, CLI command etc).
Categorization isn't rigid, InputBuffer does its best to put feedback where it belongs and gives you a clear triage flow if you want the added control.
Once organized you can learn more via a quick analytics dashboard or by interrogating the data directly, chatting with InputBuffer to gain a stronger understanding of your product, with clear citations to all feedback.
I have had success on both small and large amounts of input, on traditional SaaS platforms, developer tools, open source projects and more.
Next up: automatically gathering user input from other platforms (like GitHub issues), and more research tools.
jsemrau 2 days ago [-]
Code World Models in Simultaneous Move settings like Capital Markets. DeepMind's CWM approach relies on standard MCTS/IS-MCTS, which assumes a single active player at each node.
This doesn't work in simultaneous-move settings like Orbit Wars (or order-book markets), converging to an exploitable pure strategy rather than a Nash equilibrium.
LeCun's JEPA, by contrast, is a learned neural world model, which lacks the determinism, speed, and debuggability of a code-based simulator. Thus, it can drift or predict illegal states, and you can't inspect why it made a prediction the way you can trace a Python function.
TL;DR: The benefit is better auditability and easier RL-like training.
The SM-MCTS extension fixes the first problem (decoupled UCB per player approximates Nash equilibrium instead of a pure strategy) while keeping the second advantage intact (a deterministic, inspectable code simulator).
i make the microsoft word but less sucks, and there is scientific calculator integrated and also ai on it too, available on linux (stable) and windous (unstable).
hank2000 2 days ago [-]
We just launched https://www.dplyd.io which will do AI in a box. Small deployments of local models for law firms, healthcare, defense, etc…
There are many like it. This one is ours.
digitaltrees 2 days ago [-]
I think I am your target customer. I own a national health care franchise and want private AI. What is unclear to me from your site that I view as a gating item is do you source, install and configure the hardware or deploy your platform on ours. Or both?
Exploring highly interactive instrument (piano) practice to see if AI can help students practice better. Full duplex voice agent alongside your practice session. Also exploring live AI jamming partner to practice playing with others.
smashah 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on pirate.kred - a Tip Jar DNS for pirates to directly and easily pay creators/authors.
I am working on a local first LLM frontend that saves all chats directly to your hard drive and ships in a single index.html file artifact that you can self host.
No code to show yet. I'm taking the time it requires.
gsaines 2 days ago [-]
I’m hacking on an app that helps immigration lawyers spend less time chasing client documents: https://casedaemon.com/
We just launched a couple weeks ago and we’d love any feedback or suggestions!
delgaudm 2 days ago [-]
A FOSS TUI for Obsidian-like markdown Vaults, using interactiong metaphors of old DOS software. Especially inspired by Wordperfect 6 and Norton Commander.
ChicagoDave 2 days ago [-]
Shipped version 2.2 of my Interactive Fiction platform Sharpee with Phrase Algebra.
Designing a new DSL (Chord) that compiles to Sharpee (Typescript).
I am building a solitaire solver for Zachtronic Solitaire. Especially the last one. It should allow you to take a pic of the screen and tell you if it's solvable and what the next moves could be.
DataRunner 2 days ago [-]
Took a shot at recreating yahoo pool. Then just started adding more games to it: https://neonparlor.com
Avicebron 2 days ago [-]
I've been playing around with https://openworm.org/index.html a lot recently...getting back into artificial life "research" more broadly.
It's a coding harness that eschews autonomy and instead works like a pair programming partner, with distinct "driver" and "navigator" modes. I've only spent 3 weekends on it so far, so it's a long way from finished. But I am at least using opair to work on opair now, which is nice.
I didn't really want to write a harness, I just got frustrated enough that nobody else was writing the harness I actually want to use. I'll probably be the only person that uses this, but I'm fine with that.
Quitschquat 2 days ago [-]
A powershell-like objects-over-text UNIX shell in Lisp. I’m afraid it’s another agentic turd I produced, but I’m polishing this turd a lot more than the others.
admtal 2 days ago [-]
A really cool iOS and Android screen recorder.
You can put your face on the screen in real time, record, stream, even annotate live, add text, draw, show touch indicators.
Been pushing through SideProjectors - https://www.sideprojectors.com - if your projects don't work out, feel free to submit it for sale :)
arkokoley 2 days ago [-]
I have been working on a AI native browser = WebMCP is first class and the in-app agent uses it to do tasks.. not the same as a slapped on chat sidebar. also MCP actions are lightning fast.. so i use it via my Hermes agent.
I am taking my limited time before next job hunt and using coding agents to create a wego board strategy game inspired by Escape From Tarkov, Advanced Wars, and PhantomBrigade.
gghootch 2 days ago [-]
Mobile app that turns any recipe into 2-player mode, so you can cook together. Kind of like overcooked IRL.
I have always wanted a web browser with tmux/iterm2 style tabs/panes, as well as the ability to save the window configuration and tab contents to a file that can be checked in to projects and loaded.
Load all of your project's documentation links, local development browser tools (database viewers, etc.) into a set of views that can be source controlled with the project. Don't force people to use their daily driver browsers for this, or hack side-by-side views together with their OS window managers. Zen and friends have split panes, but it's not the robust tab/panel system that I wanted.
There is a simple tab widget system, which so far has:
- Viewport manager: basically 1:1 with what is in Chrome devtools
- Session manager: create and manage browser sessions as a first-class entity, and attach/detach tabs to these sessions. Includes a simple "incognito" toggle as well.
- System light/dark override: stop flipping this on/off for your whole OS to test "system" light/dark mode (tedious)
- Reload trigger: pick a target tab. if that tab reloads, so does this one.
- Log file viewer: if the tab source is a local file, change the tab's view to a structured log file parser with search/filter, play/pause, etc.
- Screenshot/Video capture: not built yet. pretty self explanatory.
Great keyboard controls are a hard requirement for me. It's a little tricky since content in web views can capture this too, so I have a global "nav mode toggle" you enter to move around between panes and the tabs within them. Actively figuring out the correct UX, but I am liking what I have so far.
Toying with the idea of a "tab link" which allows you to store a set of "source" tabs in a view, but create "links" in other views, where the navigation is synced across all instances. Useful if you want to have, say, the Tailwind docs open to a specific page, but have that page shared across different views. For example, if you want to have one view specifically for mobile view work and another for desktop view work, and not have to manually navigate to the same Tailwind docs page in both views.
I'm honestly just using it as I work on another real project, and adding features as I think "hey wouldn't this be nice?" Which is a pretty fun and satisfying process. I don't have it published yet, because I'm not entirely sure if it's worth sharing at the moment, but I feel like I'll discover that along the way here and go from there. Maybe someone here will chime in :P
Here's what I _wish_ someone was working on, I'd build it myself but I'm too busy with other projects. A browser extension that's not a popup blocker but a popup minimizer. So any popup (newsletter, cookie notification, even social signin) gets sucked down into a Windows 95 style taskbar. You can restore them easily but they get out of your main browsing flow. Maybe start as a fork of one of the popup blockers?
A platform to automate generation, distribution and management of verifiable E-Certificates for event organizers.
bergie 1 days ago [-]
Doing a JavaScript port of Reticulum. We'll need it soon for a boat project
stfurkan 2 days ago [-]
aidekin: an open-source, client-side AI assistant you drop onto any website. Your visitors get a private voice and text assistant that runs entirely on their own device via WebGPU
World's first LLMORPG. You craft a prompt and it goes to live in wafertown and interact with other players (I mean prompts), you can change your prompt once per day, then next day you get news about what you did there!
Super early, everything is manual rn, I'm automating stuff including sign ups, if you want to join shoot me an email!
building https://wellbody.me - we take your body health goal and build out a progression system that considers fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, mobility, and recovery -> and break it down into just 3 actions daily.
csomar 2 days ago [-]
https://codeinput.com - currently working on a zapier alternative based on web assembly workers.
maxaw 2 days ago [-]
Looking to experience life outside of software, but I don't know exactly what. In short, current filters are:
high total customer face to face time//
high face to face time per customer//
probably not in sales
as these are too abstract to map cleanly to traditional job board filters I’m scraping indeed and using deepseek to classify jobs according to this criteria, with an aim to discover really good jobs and then put a lot of effort into each of those jobs, like reaching out to hiring teams directly etc. works alright but worried coverage is an issue.
ps- can any one recommend a service or product that does this already? i should be able to set a city and then write my own filters like "this job involves dressing up like a crocodile" or "this job requires ballet dancer experience" and have each job posted in my city get assessed. maybe i get an email each day of matched and not matched jobs. i have tried to search myself but given there is so so so much slop in this space i find it very hard going. and most products do this just very poorly...
dvh 2 days ago [-]
After 2 months of work I finally finished calibration of first 2 channels of my automatic test equipment and now I can finally measure diode curves.
Joel_Mckay 2 days ago [-]
>What are you working on?
Dealing with UHD camera data, and synced feed switching issues (SDI has so many lame issues.)
>Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
A resilient solution to 99.998% of e-mail spam.
wjgilmore 2 days ago [-]
I continue working on SecurityBot.dev, having lately made significant improvements to the broken link monitor.
7stems.net: a Spanish verb conjugator and method for learning Spanish verb conjugation, where irregular verbs are just verbs with more than one stem. Also just self-published a book.
nghnam 2 days ago [-]
I am working on https://apxy.dev - network debugging tool for AI agent
yobfountain 2 days ago [-]
I am working on an agentic-driven news aggregator focused on AI Filmmaking and generative media. https://genbuzz.news
This month https://thingstohave.app, my calm and flexible wishlist app, reached a state I can call "feature complete". This iteration took two years of occasional work, so it's a big milestone for me. (I've posted updates on this app in previous threads)
Since the last update, I released everything that had been in testing since April, like gallery view, custom avatars, birthdays and, most importantly – autofill from link.
Now I'm preparing for a big launch – working on the landing page, SEO and onboarding experience. Here's what I've done so far:
1. I updated the landing page to actually tell users about the app and look presentable. I already see a big improvement in conversion
2. I added SEO crap to the landing page. This is painful for me, but sadly that's how Google Search works (it doesn't). It's paying off, too
3. I overhauled the onboarding experience, to make it smoother for new users
Two more features are still in testing; I plan to ship them before the release, but currently i'm not completely happy about them.
marktolson 2 days ago [-]
https://runnit.io - automated work management and ops for creative teams
Super interesting. May I ask - are people using this? What are their use cases? What do they govern?
uriee 2 days ago [-]
As a kibbutznik myself i built it to govern every possible community for all flavor and size with the inspiration of my experience in a tight democratic way of living ,I have given a lot of thought into it but it remained just an idea, i am a developer and my marketing skills are none existing and time is limited so no one use it. glad you liked it :)
minikomi 2 days ago [-]
A clojure / fennel dsl for generating pure data patches, looking to make a small drum machine in love2d and being able to live update the internal patches would be fun.
opening back a cultural center in Italy we had 26 years ago, with the very good help of Claude Code.
gonxman 2 days ago [-]
building a 90s style point and click 2d game called AshNOak that generates varied stories with 3 characters. Story beats are managed using opensource LLMs. still a WIP.
I have been able to revamp my recruitment product with AI. Once the deterministic parts are done, I will add AI capabilities to it. I even made an AI generated interactive demo. https://www.hiretale.com/#interactive-demo
If any HR/Recruiters are in this thread (a long shot), please share feedback in exchange of free trial.
ViktorEE 2 days ago [-]
Still on my KiCad browser product. We'll launch a private beta next week, and the open product in a few weeks.
alexkearns 2 days ago [-]
An interactive timeline showcasing all the books I have read (or at least, the books I can remember reading)
tdrz 2 days ago [-]
PGlite - Postgres in wasm
Loads of useful things in the pipeline: multi connection support, native library, extensions and many more ideas.
I'm working on a Mac OS memory app for AI. Not quite ready to share the link, but just wanted to put the periscope above the water.
dthedavid 2 days ago [-]
I can't believe iMovie doesn't have text overlays so I'm building a replacement at cut.donkeyuse.com
It's opensource and more modern.
onesandofgrain 2 days ago [-]
I was working on sharemygit.com
However, LLM coding has made coding less rewarding so… Im thinking about starting a new hobby as coding for fun has become prompting.
grahamburger 2 days ago [-]
I've been thinking about doing valet storage. Anyone had any experience? I think there's some untapped potential in the 'burbs.
sherlock-holmes 2 days ago [-]
building https://shellular.dev, an app that let's you use your dev env from anywhere - your agents (Claude Code, Codex. OpenCode, Pi etc.), persistent terminals, local repos and code editor, in-app browser to remotely access localhost:<any-port> and js console for debugging.
joshuawertheim 2 days ago [-]
I've been working on an LLM "harness" called Logbook[0] for fun with Codex.
The core idea was that I've always been a lousy notetaker, even going back to my school days years ago. I'm great at one-off and one-liner notes and occasionally more in-depth notes, but tend to not flesh them out fully enough to make them worth re-visiting.
This has been a struggle even as an engineer sitting in meetings or trying to absorb new information when starting a new job and ramping up.
Logbook is meant to use an interaction paradigm we as engineers are using very often these days: it's a terminal UI in the vein of Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.
It's targeted at the entry of free-flowing thoughts but you can also write longer notes by launching your default shell editor from within the tool.
Each note is saved as markdown with some metadata and that metadata is then saved to a local SQLite DB.
For the LLM side, the tool extracts useful metadata from those notes and then performs some local ranking/categorization. It then has the ability to send a note or some metadata to a provider of your choosing (it's straightforward to use OpenAI or something more broad and customizable like OpenRouter) for further enrichment or filtering.
A couple examples of the currently implemented slash-commands: `/related` can be used to find related notes; say you've been scribbling down notes about OAuth or MCP servers and want to gather up the most relevant notes to one of those topics. Or you can use a `/gaps` command that'll help you find things you've taken notes about but without properly defining or providing context around them (i.e. you mention ID-JAG for OAuth but never actually say what ID-JAG is, this command will tell you this so you have a chance to review what you previously wrote and can then define exactly what that keyword is about).
It's still very much a work in progress. It's not meant to be a full-fledged note-taking app a la Obsidian or anything like that. I've just always preferred taking notes in markdown or plain text and this is a great way to continue doing that while also making enrichment of the notes pretty simple.
You may ask "why not just use agent memories?" I don't really like the idea of tightly coupling notes with codebases or agents and I don't find the current UX very intuitive at least for the way I prefer to take notes.
For the life of me, I could never get electronics. I used to love the idea of me coming up with electronic circuit designs, but the arcane art of electronics never really clicked for me because I just couldn't intuitively grasp the maths no matter which book I read (AoE, I'm looking at you). But then it hit me, I don't need maths, I just need a formal language to represent the circuits. So over the past few weeks, I worked on a code your own spice (the electronic simulator). So now, for the first time in history, I finally understand how circuits work and how they are designed. And I did this all by coding circuits in python and making my own functional spice (which used to seem impossible at one point, it's surprising how easy it is though).
wifinyc 2 days ago [-]
I building WiFiNYC.app — exploring open data through maps and interactive web applications.
To investigate the use of LLMs to weed out low value posts and comments, mostly. If a lot of submitted content is by agents, then let them play but figure out how to not overload the humans. Also, how to enable assisted discussion without walls of text.
dmotz 2 days ago [-]
Trying to make it effortless to build p2p apps without any setup:
Im working on a project to prevent Claude code from reading any secrets key
fatih-erikli-cg 2 days ago [-]
In my 20 something experience of software development, it is totally ok if you don't work on anything so I don't work on something. If there is a possibility that your work will be something useful plus you will benefit from that, you definitely have enough time to do that in couple of coffee tea drinking times. Europe show off by their sidewalks and street signs. Computer is a little too lux for a human.
argilium 2 days ago [-]
I’m working on Ovio (https://ovio.au), a record-keeping app for Australian freelancers/sole traders/small businesses.
The current version is deliberately narrow: send receipts by email/whatsapp; import bank transactions from CSV; and Ovio extracts the details and auto reconciles. From there you can check a BAS/GST-style summary and export organised records for an accountant.
It's been quite fun building this as this solves my exact problem, but trying to find an audience for a product is a completely different game
agents have their own email and phone number and get a logged in browser instances on demand.
ChaosOp 2 days ago [-]
Working on Gaming Couch, a web-based local multiplayer party game platform. It's like a lovechild of Jackbox and Mario Party: https://gamingcouch.com
Just before the weekend I shipped a new mini-game called Pop It: Desert Island (https://gamingcouch.com/blog/pop-it-desert-island-launch). Launch went well: ~3,800 players from 56 countries over the weekend, and it immediately became the most played game on the platform.
It's a battle royale with an ocean/beach themed world, taking inspiration from Roblox, Mario Kart and others. The whole game is built in JavaScript (three.js for the 3D world) using a JS SDK I've been working on. It doubled as a test drive of the same SDK I want to launch for third-party developers, so anyone can build and ship a simple, fun multiplayer party game for the platform, ideally in a single weekend.
If you're a game dev, or aspiring to be one, and want to develop and ship your own party game check out this page https://gamingcouch.com/developers
The TL;DR of Gaming Couch:
- Free Early Access with +20 competitive mini-games.
- Players use their phones as controllers (gamepads work too).
- Completely web-based, no downloads or installs needed.
- Every game supports up to 8 players and is action-based, with quick ~1 minute rounds to keep a good pace. No language-based trivia or asynchronous (turn based) games.
johnobrien1010 2 days ago [-]
Working on a SaaS application that helps academic researchers conduct systematic literature reviews
It really is useful.. If you add your favorite places... it will give you pretty good suggestions using the ai wrapper when you travel and it is good at giving joint recommendations for you and your friends.
ignatif 2 days ago [-]
i'm working on a mobile app to control coding agents (claude code / codex / opencode / crush) from your phone
I've found Astro to be an amazing framework for simple, performant websites. It stays really close to basic HTML and CSS while adding useful features such as scoped components, layouts, and easy Markdown blog integration.
So I have been using it to build websites. But many things keep repeating with every website I build, so I began working on this project to create a base that I can use for every new web project.
When it is far enough along, I will use it for the landing page of the app I'm working on: a customizable solution for self-tracking including habits, health and journaling, or whatever else you need: https://dailyselftrack.com/
After more than 400 days of traveling around Korea, Macau, Mainland China, Japan and Australia, I'm now returning to Germany / Europe looking for work. I wrote about that in my monthly mail-letter: https://bryanhogan.com/follow
franze 2 days ago [-]
an ai first virtual computer as an mac app with mcp support
think ai is yolo sudo admin within the sandboxed linux
and internally/external you can control the whole computer via mcp, too
fur-tea-laser 2 days ago [-]
suprasole - a pty proxy for enabling deterministic and ergonomic extensions/middleware for harnesses in an agnostic way... also working towards building an automation/scripting layer on top of harnesses via suprasole...
arikrahman 2 days ago [-]
A project made with jank and also my dotfiles.
ratelimitsteve 13 hours ago [-]
PARTTS - post-apocalyptic real time transport simulator
basically logistics and fleet management for a trucking company that does cargo and passengers, set in a zombie outbreak with events that can happen during a job that affect the outcome. This all happens in real-time, the length of a job is calculated based on the distance between the departure and destination points and soon drivers needing rest will be a factor. I'm a big fan of microgames/timed games where rather than sitting down for a play session the gameplay loop involves just occasionally checking up on the status of some things that are happening in the background
notorandit 2 days ago [-]
RV64 toy/hobby kernel. No compatibility aim but rather at efficiency and speed.
bluetrolliage 2 days ago [-]
Working on a platform to create agents using prebuilt tools. Using it to learn more
dhavalt 2 days ago [-]
Working on a desktop application for llm evaluations.
sanj001 2 days ago [-]
I'm building Voxoria (https://voxoria.ai), it tracks whether B2B brands get mentioned when people ask ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini instead of Googling.
Ask the same engine the same question twice and you get different answers, different citations, sometimes a different opinion of your brand, so figuring out how best to present this has been a fun product problem to solve.
It also tries not to be yet another dashboard: instead of just analytics, an agent turns the findings into a ranked list of "ship this fix" todo items.
akutlay 2 days ago [-]
Curious, how fast the AI providers re-index a page after you make a change? Do you see the results in the next model update, or do they try to use more realtime data by making their agent fetching the website every time?
sanj001 2 days ago [-]
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k2xl 2 days ago [-]
Chess67.com - Website for real life OTB chess clubs, events and tournaments.
_ashtonian 2 days ago [-]
a golang io_uring implementation and a pinned run to completion framework to go with it, and a MQTT broker consuming it.
tytrdev 2 days ago [-]
Myself
shomp 2 days ago [-]
Which aspects
officialchicken 2 days ago [-]
Compulsion to respond to random posts
shomp 1 days ago [-]
Be selective where you invest your ~finite energy :)
IPL 2 days ago [-]
Trying to rebuild the brakes on my Impreza. It is not going well.
selimthegrim 1 days ago [-]
Please do tell. I might have to do this soon.
tomfunk 2 days ago [-]
still working on my local-first, byok personal finance tool. feels like a lot of sanding at this point.
rawadgh 2 days ago [-]
- a GUI (in python) for my "ancient" 3D printer to draw circuits on copper plates
- the gcode scripts are almost done !!
- a "customizable" mobile app (Android) for my business
- a yet another static site generator (yaml, jinja2)
- a microcontroller for a hardware project (arduino)
- enhancements and reports for a desktop application (python)
asaddhamani 2 days ago [-]
I’ve been building a shared memory layer across all AI tools
www.memoryplugin.com
saulpw 2 days ago [-]
A nondescript transcript-based collaborative audio editor.
romx-cell 2 days ago [-]
imagina.xplaya.com a site for my wife's stationary store in México. Customers ask for organizing images inside a printed page, I create a PDF for that
tshapedrob 2 days ago [-]
A new model for assisted memorization, based on asynchronous interactions (using iPhone notifications): https://banyanflashcards.com
__MatrixMan__ 2 days ago [-]
A... database? for apps on a pocket switched network.
genekrapivin 2 days ago [-]
I'm working on Hiring Method (https://hiring-method.com). After ~2 years of development and two exhausting pivots, v1 is finally live.
I see a lot of new (and, to be frank, a lot of mature ones) HR tools are just wrapping Chatgpt around resumes (almost like "OK, now match this resume against this job posting and tell me if applicant fits"), which introduces a massive bias/inference problem.
I decided to build the exact opposite – a deterministic, math-driven fitness engine. It extracts structured scorecards from both CVs and job requirements and mathematically matches them, so you can actually review the exact reasoning behind why a candidate scored a, say, 85%. This fitness value is specified at every interview step – as applicant goes through an interview process their scorecard is updated at all steps.
If anyone here builds in the HR space, I’d love your feedback.
tayo42 2 days ago [-]
If tools like this are popular then it sounds like it'll be impossible to switch domains.
genekrapivin 2 days ago [-]
Let me disagree and explain myself.
When an HR is using Hiring Method, they are getting a fitness score for all applicants.
In case a backend engineer is seeking frontend roles – yes, the fitness will be low – but it will neither be zero nor will anyone be rejected anyhow automatically. HR will have an option to compare applicants visually and in detailed mode at all times.
I am building Hiring Method to augment people, not to remove them from decision making process.
tayo42 2 days ago [-]
Im sure you have the best intentions. I already struggle with being pigeonholed into roles. The line about using AI wrappers to determine a fit stuck out to me.
genekrapivin 2 days ago [-]
I understand you perfectly. I’ve also worked on the employer side (as a hiring manager, working closely with recruiters) and have witnessed a huge number of instances of unfairness, manifesting in all sorts of ways. And, believe me, as the number of applicants grows, the situation doesn’t get any better. I’m trying to bring a little transparency to the process.
deanalyzer 2 days ago [-]
Yes, and what's scary is that I can easily imagine HR departments loving these tools and using them at scale.
drdolitre 2 days ago [-]
needed seating planner for my wedding, so created something that suits my needs
Using UEFI SecureBoot + vTPM for cloud root-of-trust, a stack to prove what's released on github/gitlab is what's actually running on GCP/EC2 (and soon Azure & AliYun).
I was annoyed that so many companies in the Web3 space would do the on-chain theater of verified contracts and "audits" then 99% of their infra would be deployed on EC2 (or god forbid Vercel) in full un-ironic "Trust Me Bro" mode.
It's a different trust model from SGX/TDX, more pragmatic and hopefully easier/cheaper. Currently polishing off "Docker to verifiable cloud VM" stuff, and then gVisor support next.
Grosvenor 2 days ago [-]
I'm learning to break 4-rotor Enigma encrypts.
yitchelle 2 days ago [-]
I am building an newsletter for Short Science Fiction, using news stories of the day as inspiration. Purposely limiting the length to 3 chapters.
Currently removing the paywall from all my stories. If I have missed one, let me know.
3. a coding agent that is cheaper, faster, more predictable, and dramatically more capable out of the box — because 584 of its 606 tools never touch a model at all. Repo : https://github.com/corporatepiyush/yantra-coding-agent
user- 2 days ago [-]
Roleready.me
planning on postin ga show hn this week.
999900000999 2 days ago [-]
Music!
Hoping to put out a project by end of year
aleda145 2 days ago [-]
Got another daughter last week!
There were a lot of complications post delivery, and I want to make some sort of interactive story about it. We'll see how it goes
I tend to print a lot of stuff to read while disconnected. This is a tool to help squeeze as much content onto a printed page as possible instead of printing 4 or more pages per sheet.
A good use of Claude slop I'd argue. Currently trying to figure out how to set up the site so that an LLM tasked with printing content through it can figure out how to use it in the best way.
ares623 1 days ago [-]
Recently got a typewriter and I'm practicing on "long form" writing. Basically an offline blog.
I continue to take photos with film, developing and scanning at home.
remy__ 2 days ago [-]
I was kind of disappointed at our HOA management system so I made my own: https://hoamy.app
Started of manually, later stages I used AI for implementing similar pages, and then for reviewing my own code.
(It was also an excuse to work with Nuxt / Nuxt UI as I loved the development of those projects and wanted to implement something with it.)
Muromec 2 days ago [-]
I'm having fun writing another agent harness nobody uses for real (not even me). As a side effect, I got an actor library in typescript to do it: https://github.com/muromec/posipaki .
After some time I figured the best use of AI is to produce even more AI-related slop and spend my occasional 2 dollars on the deep seek model to do it.
Models are fun when given a stable identity and made aware of it.
jim_lawless 2 days ago [-]
I've stood up a message board to try to recapture the fun of running an 80's/90's BBS. You can look around at :
If you want to join in and post, you'll need a code for the registration process. The code ...
yc2026
...should work for a while.
stonecharioteer 1 days ago [-]
The best damned ebook reader you'll ever use. Ready anywhere, ask anything.
We have been building https://merrilin.ai for 6 months now. Open to public access right now.
jamestimmins 2 days ago [-]
Telemetry tooling for local Claude/Codex usage so I can analyze old sessions and fill tooling gaps, make sure I'm using the right models for various tasks, update my processes, etc.
I've also replaced Linear with a local sqlite-backed tool, added tooling to speed up code nav, and am building "no-slop", a tool for enforcing architectural guidelines on vibe-coded projects.
motohagiography 1 days ago [-]
This thread was so long I vibecoded a clustering similarity graph of it to navigate with voronoi territories, should be available for the next little bit.
I had some ideas for improvements to brutalist.report but it got out of hand:
<Http://punditron.com/>
A slop machine, what's that??
*my feeling are very hurt that this link won't hotlink
therobots927 2 days ago [-]
I’m working on AgentOrgy, a distributed platform that randomly pairs agents to “tag-team” a problem. Each team’s output is voted on by all agents. The winning results is returned at each stage of th loop.
Super excited to see how many tokens this will manage to burn per minute!!
nodesocket 2 days ago [-]
Replacement for Quickbooks Self Employed (which is awful). Integrates Plaid and allows you to categorize business spending by official IRS categories and business income. Graphs of business spending, income, profit by month, quarter, and year. Export to CSV for easy entry into schedule C at tax time.
Future feature is estimating quarterly taxes and showing approximately how much should be paid each quarter if any and due dates.
A free, local-first desktop app for worldbuilding and running tabletop RPGs like D&D.
I've spent more than a year on this, first a website, and then migrating it to a desktop app.
dspnc 2 days ago [-]
who's working on the atproto facebook?!?!?
syl5x 2 days ago [-]
working on my own AI harness https://github.com/syrull/pluto tldr I dont trust anything nowadays, I wanted to know what requests I am doing to where and basically implement features that I use daily without the clutter of the other harnesses, still very raw but I am using it exclusively. Not a product or anything just something for myself.
MaxLeiter 2 days ago [-]
I (and Claude, codex, etc) have compiled/ran wayland, X11, GNOME, KDE, and Ladybird natively on a jailbroken iPad. Hoping to release more details soon but I have a slop wiki here:
If you want to give it a try, email me and I'll comp your first two months and help you get started.
coolThingsFirst 2 days ago [-]
Recently ive gotten into Unity. Have made games before but always avoided engines. This time im taking a deeper dive and want to learn at least the basics of a animations, lightening, movement and lay around with interesting combat variations.
C# is fine since i already know java.
butvacuum 2 days ago [-]
a gibbet
tibzejoker 15 minutes ago [-]
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syngrog66 1 days ago [-]
EV charging. latency optimization tooling. a tech book. a realtime Roguelike action-adventure game. ssh fun/leveraging
jhogendorn 2 days ago [-]
Lots of things.
- Got https://beachcomber.sh pretty much stable. Next stage is to propose to various upstreams its worth integrating.
- Custom firmware for some ikea symfonisk dials because the oem firmware on them has some pretty bad bugs. Added features like hold and turn. Getting nice smooth dial behaviour over zigbee etc is surprisingly tricky
- Built a skill evaluator tool that runs a skill through test suites and then tweaks the skill context and runs again. Its been pretty effective to be honest, almost all skills you do the first version is laughable compared to the one you get after this automated self improvement.
- A robust tmux bridge interface for claude to hook into, and then a director layer on top of that for agent orchestration tooling
- a stenographer skill that on the fly ripgrep and builds a rag on your on disk conversation history as a form of memory. Pretty effective.
- I have just started a tool that brokers woodpecker ci to openbao/vault to give a gitlab like integration for controlled secrets injection for ci.
- Been beating my head against a camera tool for a while now, finally making headway. Many ptz cameras dont support fov move, which nvrs need for ml object detection and tracking. They just have a super clunky continuous move and stop. So my tool characterises the camera with cv tools and calibrates movement curves to produce a data file that can be used by my onvif proxy to emulate the more advanced move commands.
- Various helper tools for fusion, like csv based parameterised export, and compliant magnet insert generators.
- A pipeline that consumes my content backlog, ie instagram saves, reddit saves, hn faves, etc and analyses them with local models and various algorithms steps to categorise and intuit why it was saved and what the key information is and what category it fits into for future reference etc.
- A map of my city that shows live river height data with flood map overlays, contour data, predicted overland flow etc. flooding is a regular concern but theres no great resource to know whats going on. I have about 60gb of public datasets it works with.
- A package manager for kicad library symbols and footprints, datasheets
- skills for kicad so claude can reasonably interpret the schematic and advise on problems, check against datasheets etc. surprisingly effective.
- A gcode controlled expansion board for the Carvera Air that gives you 8+8 channels of control for extraction, air assist, vacuum table, timelapse camera, etc. you only have 1 pwm pin so the protocol encodes over that.
- A novel exploration interface for vitamins that renders them in a network graph, showing relationships. When you select one it rearranges around it into a kind of valance orbit style so you can explore chains of effect. Turns out, lots and lots of things relate to magnesium.
- A comprehensive usb c pd board with 4s battery management. 3a or 8a depending on version. Trying to do proper pd in is nontrivial so this is a drop in solve.
- A new brain pcb for Kinesis Advantage Pro keyboards to give modern firmware, bluetooth etc.
- Repacked my rack UPS battery with LiFePo cells, and built an induction/resistive series battery balancer pcb for it.
- Playing around with a new debug header/connector concept thats tiny footprint and zero cost to add.
The hard part is getting things over the line, publishing and seeing if theres interest. A thing can be largely done but theres a lot of detail work polishing it up so its public ready.
agent3bood 2 days ago [-]
Yet another social app, but this is just an excuse to to build backend as a service using spring boot and full stack Kotlin.
It's a calendar workspace that treats events as structured data rather than just blocks of time.
I built it because I was planning in Google Calendar, then manually reconstructing what actually happened in another tool during my weekly review.
Velprium adds properties such as status, tags, ratings, and notes to events, then uses them for diary and weekly review views.
It's built with Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase/Postgres, and the Google Calendar API. The trickiest parts so far have been recurring events and reliable two-way sync without polluting the original Google Calendar data.
I'm currently trying to figure out whether the clearest initial use case is "turn your calendar into a weekly review" or the broader idea of a time-based database.
It's a hardware first AI inferencing platform built with 18 years of hosting infrastructure experience behind it. Always being updated.
It works best if you're able to join with at least four people you don't speak with as much as you'd like. I have a couple dozen connections on the app now, and it feels like magic to me. Would love feedback from both introverts and extroverts who still like phone calls, or wish they had more of them:
iOS TestFlight access here -> https://trybeacon.chat/
Android also in beta here -> https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/afe3c44d8443c4c0
I sometimes send beacons on morning commutes. Way too early for normal social calls but will sometimes catch people a few timezones east on a lunch break or something.
Why did that go away with modern messaging? WhatsApp and signal don't have it. Sms? Not sure. I think Facebook messenger does.
I can remember this was an important feature that everyone actively used.
I believe it can help
Earlier this year, a colleague encouraged me to experiment with Claude Code. So now I have a little game project. :) Being unfamiliar with genAI, I chose something modest so that I'd more likely be able to push it to a fairly polished state.
Tentatively called Vestiges, it's a single player 2D roguelite strategy game with meta progression, some narrative, and a card minigame (the latter inspired by work I did on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II). It's set in the near future. You are using software (the game) to navigate a person's digitized mind, reading their memories.
I hope to have a playable demo within the next month or so.
I've had a strangely asymmetric experience where frontier models are failing apparently basic tasks like making changes to a Pong clone without breaking it, while the same models are successfully designing and implementing multiplayer servers with rollback netcode!
I think it has to do with what they can and cannot verify (i.e. they can't actually play pong to see if they broke it), but I'm not sure.
(Also happy to hear anyone else's experiences on this matter!)
First, some background: At the start, I used Sonnet, but after a couple weeks, I'd switched to mostly Opus. I've used Fable when available. For any significant new feature or work, I use /brainstorming (superpowers plug-in). For Vestiges, I haven't written any design documentation per se. I'll start off a /brainstorming with a hefty prompt, maybe 5-15 lines. Throughout the brainstorming steps, I'll think of additional ideas/details about the feature, etc. I'll just add the change/addition to my answer to whatever question it had asked and it seems to handle that fine.
Sometimes I catch things in the subsequent design review process and it handles new guidance well there, too. Typically, I've left some details underspecified and Claude fills in the gaps -- often quite well, but I have to pay attention. The details that it decides later in the process (the implementation steps) are often solid, but when they're not, it's easy to iteratively fix later. Most of the time when Claude asks for clarity on a detail, its recommended option is what I wanted.
It's been rare for Claude to do something that just didn't work (but it has happened occasionally). I have found that it's not good at imagining the player's perspective; it doesn't consider the player's cognitive load for UX considerations, for example. That seems to be consistent with your observation about what they can and cannot verify. A recent instance was when I added a tutorial (which was much more scripted than regular gameplay, providing a more specific experience); I ultimately had to get very directly involved to get to the quality I wanted.
Vestiges doesn't have any gameplay involving timing like Pong does. I could imagine that sort of gameplay being harder for it to get right.
(I hope that covers some of what you were seeking!)
quackwave.com
Hasn't really been stress tested yet (this is the first time I'm mentioning it publicly), but it's been fun playing with friends & family and iterating.
Party game platform, think "jackbox but no host screen" - just need a web browser open on phone/tablet/PC.
Your comment matches my experience: it has to do what can and cannot be verified. As an example, it was much easier to have AI write a large e2e test using Playwright (then add test cases and expand) than to assume it'll correctly fix bugs without guidelines like this. Also, the human loop is still important in things like screenshot verification - but the frontier models are getting even better here so I'm not sure for how much longer this will be true. The ratio of test code to production code is a bit over 2:1 right now.
Nevertheless, several thousand lines of test code were added, and all tests pass!
I found this particularly amusing because, I've been obsessed with correctness and verification lately, thinking about rewriting the game in Rust, and adding formal verification to the game.
What I realized here is that, this wouldn't have helped at all. The AI would have just written the wrong code in Rust, and then written a mathematical proof that the wrong code is correct...
Telling AI to "do TDD" is a shortcut that gets me over 80% there by itself in aggregate with little effort. The last 20% is painful. More painful than the usual "last 20%" in game design and development. I think this is part of the human vs. LLM gap.
If you revert the code to before the feature was implemented, then called out the way not to do it (the failed version you're describing) - what would happen? Maybe that "80% there" turns into "90% there", or maybe it's a bit better. Or maybe a bit worse. Working with LLMs vs. humans, does the gap shrink further if you gave other people the same requirements you gave the LLM? I think it depends on who you're working with - other people have their own opinions and don't necessarily just do exactly what they're told without taking their experiences into account.
In a way I see it like playing a game of telephone. I have my understanding of the system, I translate it into words, the LLM interprets it and does what it does based on that. For some reason, it feels like this is a telephone game with 3 people: A to B to C where the translation layer of my thoughts into words is an inserted "B". In contrast, if instead I'm expressing my thoughts to another person it's A to B. This extra connection here is lossy in the same way a game of telephone is lossy from player A to player C.
You should consider creating the game on Steam, so you can start building your audience.
(When I began this effort, I was just enjoying feeling productive again and didn't have any real plan to release. But I've been pleased enough with how it's been coming along that I've started seriously thinking about it.)
Fortunately, I personally enjoy writing. Currently, I wouldn't be able to claim that Claude didn't contribute to the writing, but nothing in Vestiges should sound like genAI. (Which is actually a little funny to me since one of the characters is an AI. But the genAI writing style grates on many, including myself, and I'd imagine that 20+ years into the future, such issues will have been solved.)
(I've considered trying to find an artist to work with to have professional 2D art.)
https://windowhints.com/
Last month we reached 200 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 250 now), and last week we launched support for XMR/Monero payments via ProxyStore [2]!
You can also see in our homepage that more independent bloggers and privacy-minded people have written about us!
The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL,into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!
Uruky is paid and you can get a free 2h trial when you signup if you pass a proof-of-work captcha (another suggestion made here on HN, and it uses a local Altcha).
Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications. This month was Caddy [3]!
Feature-wise, for July we’ve already shipped a lot of visible and less visible things. We’re currently looking into increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web, and plan to add a couple of new search providers in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you for your kindness!
[NO-AI]: There is no generative AI product or service, here.
[1]: https://uruky.com
[2]: https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/uruky
[3]: https://caddyserver.com
You also mention not using the source for commercial use or distribution, is that only relevant before it becomes AGPL?
I am also struggling to find how to activate the 2h trial, so have not been able to test it out.
We have an index, it's just not very big, yet. We had a major setback last month with a bug (for less than 24h, the crawler didn't respect robots.txt) and had to delete it entirely, and have been slowly rebuilding it.
You're correct the commercial use is only not allowed before the AGPL comes into play.
You should be able to click on the "top up" link (top or bottom) and see an option for a captcha ("click to prove you're a human"). If you don't, reach out via email (don't share your account number) and I'll give you a voucher for a couple of days.
I've been thinking of making a "small web" indexer so I'm curious about that. I'm seeing even tiny websites being behind CloudFlare, Anubis etc. these days. (And everyone complaining they're getting hammered by mysterious distributed HTTP traffic!)
You can look for Common Crawl or Open Web Index for dataset sizes and how many URLs those include to get a sense of baseline storage costs, and then 2x that for minimum usability.
It's honestly a bit tough to accept that we got a report of abuse and are still dealing with the aftermath of that after having a single crawler go haywire for a few hours (because we play nice and identify ourselves properly), but these... "mysterious" bots that keep hitting all the servers everywhere thousands of times per day just go on like nothing's happening and "no one"'s to blame.
I’ll give it a shot. Always happy to see some competition in the market. And I love the idea of handing out the source after a year.
Is Monero legal in EU? I heard something about them banning private cryptos including Monero a while back but I don't know what the situation is now. (I think it might just be that exchanges are not allowed to offer it anymore?)
With our ProxyStore partnership, they're handling the crypto payments, we only invoice them for fiat and they pay us in fiat!
interesting project, good luck
Also, we do offer an API (check the FAQ), no need for different subscription tiers. Keeping it simple.
> PRIVATE SEARCH YOU CONTROL
> Search without ads or tracking
> Uruky is a private search engine focused on personalization, not an ecosystem. > EU-based. No surveillance capitalism.
Meanwhile, I hope that answers your question? Let me know if you'd like some further clarification.
I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.
I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.
- what paper size are you going to use? Like full broadsheet size or zine size?
- and how many pages of content do you think you'll have, given that size?
- black and white, or color?
- where will you get all your content? Designing puzzles, experiments etc seems like it would take a long time
- do you recommend any printeries?
- anywhere we can follow your progress? I'd be super excited to see a first mockup
FWIW, as a web guy, I'm leaning towards designing my content in HTML + CSS and exporting to PDF at a certain page size, probably using playwright.
It will be in color. Broadsheet (350mmx500mm). 12 pages. Color.
I've been designing puzzles, etc.. myself. Using claude and chatgpt to brainstorm fun games/expirements/etc...
I don't have the site up yet. Waiting to get the first batch so I have some IRL images to add to the site.
https://cricketmedia.com/childrens-magazines
https://rangerrick.org/
I wish there were 1,000s more of those!
I don't have payment setup yet. Just a waitlist :)
The host made an offhand mention that there's probably a bunch of other similar sites that could be created with all the of useful but difficult-to-access government data out there. That sounded interesting, so I thought I'd give it a whirl!
Working on a few of them, including The Waterline (https://the-waterline.com/) for water info for the western US, The Scramble (https://the-scramble.com/) for egg prices, and The Dwell (https://the-dwell.com/) for container ship dwell times.
All pretty fascinating topics to learn about, plus it's been interesting to see how much of the website setup I can fully delegate to Claude. With Cloudflare to buy domains and put the sites up, a Google Service Account with access to Google Search Console and GA4 to create those properties and a Buttondown API key for weekly email sending, it's almost all hands off for me. Though it refuses to take control of the browser and create a new Buttondown account, which I was surprised is a red line.
There are only a few knitting machines that can automatically do everything required to knit a complete garment, and they are large, heavy and extremely expensive. I'm aiming to trade off speed against size and cost to create something akin to a 3D printer for knitwear.
I've been testing out various ideas for six months now, and I think I have a workable concept, but there's still a lot of work to do!
I’ve been on a hunt for a perfect blank t shirt. After trying 10 different models either the fit or the material is not up to my standard.
I wonder how automatable manufacturing of T-Shirts is. Not sure if it is possible to automate sewing on a collar for example. Plus from what I’ve read a tubular t shirt is worse than front and back sewed at the sides cause it tends to stretch and rotate in one direction with time.
Anyway: continuous knitting is more automatable but introduces limitations just like injection moulding does. But the benefit of having a perfect fit might outweigh those limitations.
What’s your take on all of this?
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/100361 is a start, but there are other examples. Rei Kawakubo also did a collection called Square based on a similar concept. Yoji Yamamoto did a couple as well, there were a few moments in Japanese fashion that would work extremely well with a full garment knitter.
These pictures are the top level concepts, but the rest of the collections if you can still find them have more examples.
At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc. There are a lot of beautiful books to look at — and you can use it with Claude code. API keys available: https://SourceLibrary.org/developers.
2. Replicating the design patterns of contemporary AI services
I’ve created a web app, desktop application and API for organizations needing European hardware and data protections. It’s a nice interface on top of Scaleway in France, so low carbon too. See https://makemode.eu
Support, feedback or even participation on these projects is very welcome.
Wow, this is like... exactly(?) what I needed? (and since this is on topic for this discussion... What am I working on? Learning and writing about metaphysics and magic.)
This is wonderful stuff.
The web UI didn't vibe with me too well though. The only thing I saw on the first page was "Your email address or continue with Google". I mean, reading the books apparently do not require my email address or logging in, but I figured out much later only due to the fact that I really wanted to see the contents. (I'd imagine if somebody was only marginally interested they might have been scared away by the "give us your email address" thingy.)
Also, when reading the book contents, the browser back button didn't work for me. Felt a bit clunky for some reason. Couldn't put my finger on any specific issue other than the back button, but somehow didn't feel smooth. (I'm not a web frontend dev, so this is just my personal feeling.)
All that said, this is a wonderful resource.
If you have a minute, check out the Librarian in the menu. Give it your research questions. It’s a pretty powerful research agent!
It is a vast and beautiful collection that I spent hours checking out all sorts of documents, especially the Occult and Alchemy.
SideQuests HQ is a mobile app that turns real life into a series of small, optional quests.
The idea came from noticing that most productivity apps optimize for work, and most social media optimizes for consumption. There aren’t many tools that encourage you to actually do interesting things in the real world.
The app generates challenges across categories like meeting new people, exploring your city, learning something new, creating, or helping someone else. Complete a quest, skip it, or save it for later.You can also add your own quests. There’s no streak anxiety, no leaderboard. The app is just quests designed to make life a little less repetitive.
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sidequests-hq/id6751321255 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inc.sidequests...
Life’s better when you find the way.
Be the friend with the hare brained idea.
It can tell you things like:
- The car that parked nearby last night coincided with "Chad's Galaxy Buds" with MAC address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. The buds also drove by briefly the previous night.
- Alert on sudden cross-specturm interference (e.g. burglars using a cheap jammer to knock out WiFi cameras).
- Alert on known device contact loss (powered off / left premises).
- Review device movement across a campus/neighborhood (using multiple RF pods).
I have a working PoC. It can run on a low-power computer (e.g. RPi) supporting multiple RF sensors (BT/BLE/WiFi). Has a web UI. Can publish events to an external security system. Currently working on an LLM interface to make it easy for a non-technical operator to set policies and ask questions.
Could be sold as an appliance system or a license for a DIY build.
Angel investors are welcome to contact rf-monitor@tuta.com
1. How loud the neighbhorhood is over time periods, eg sat night vs tues morning 2. air quality, enviromental factors, etc. 3. What percentage of vehicles/people/devices are net-new (over a time period) versus recoccuring, as identified by MAC.
I would personally pay in the low hundreds to understand overall loudness levels for a house I am about to buy, although I am fairly sensitive to sound. My wife would probably pay for the new-new people metrics.
IMO, you could charge a per-device report and deploy a unit for a week, much like a home inspector report. It would give you a revenue stream on the buy or sell side, and let you own your devices as you iterate on the sensor package.
Anyways, just my 2c, gl with your PoC.
Can you say exactly what you can detect with this?
When it comes to peripherals (earbuds, dashcams, car audio, etc), it's a totally different story. For user convenience these devices happily broadcast useful names, manufacturer data, etc.
But in common sense terms, the privacy implications will be no different than virtually every outdoor security camera you pass by fifty times a day.
Between NUMA-concerns and the need to use multiple public IPs, I'm coaxed into a pretty exotic setup no matter what I choose to go with. Was pretty finnicky to set up, but it seems to work pretty well all said and done. Systemd is certainly feeling less floaty than docker (and even moreso kubernetes, which was never an option).
I also shaved like 10ms off response times since I no longer need an additional reverse proxy to deal with docker's networking magic, and can point nginx straight to the network namespaced services' IPs.
This in service of sequestering all wide domains (as in having tens of thousands of subdomains) to their separate crawler and index partition, as their (per top-domain) rate limits are part of why crawls take so long for the main crawler. Couldn't do that on docker because its ipvlan management is so jank you need spare IPs to reliably restart services.
The site, https://deelmobiliteitdelft.nl, logs the availability of every shared vehicle inside the city boundary. This allows me to do interesting analysis. For example, one operator has been above its vehicle limit 80% of the time. Another has a third of its fleet standing untouched for over three days.
It's the same idea as my previous project (http://parkeergaragesdelft.nl) where we do have live data but nobody keeps a record causing the public debate to run on anecdotes.
Site's in Dutch, charts should speak for themselves.
Did a quick check on Amsterdam: https://gbfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/visualization?url=ht...
This also exceeds the supposed 600 max per service provider. That said I'm not sure I'd have time to maintain a derivative site.
I agree that the follow up with the legislator is what makes this interesting. I'd even suggest making sharing that correspondence on your site a feature. Your outgoing link on the site to the regional press doesn't quite seem to cover that.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7FLQDYD
[2] https://www.chestergrant.com/7-truths-from-veritas-by-cheste...
[3] https://www.chestergrant.com/what-different-cultures-agree-o...
https://oxpower.io/
Joyent did something like this ~11 years go, and I loved using it, but then they where acquired by Samsung and shut down their public (non-enterprise) offering.
This is try 3 at building something as good, and it is working!
Yeah for hand crafted Rust!
Made a talking head with some idle animation and visemes and some broken crt-like effects. The meat of it is only a few hundred kB - i can probably make it even smaller with making the graphics smaller.
A bit of post processing on some narration for extracting mouth shapes and it seems to work quite nice as a low-footprint retro talking head. Im thinking i'll make it some kind of chatbot interface.
Its very much a WIP, please don't be too critical - i am only sharing because it is fun :)
Very fresh and almost calming :)
1) No app, no user account which leads to literally 3-click install
2) Full transparency - you know what you are getting. A lot of other eSIM providers hide details like unlimited plan speed caps etc
3) I connect to the best network available in the country. For example, someone like Airalo would connect to VTC in Vietnam, I offer Viettel which is the undisputed local network king.
And obviously, I am 2-3x cheaper than Airalo and the big players.
[0] https://akariq.com/
I travel fulltime and constantly buy new esims. Normally I just go on esimdb and buy the cheapest one. Then when I get to the location I'm staying at, I chat with folks to figure which network works best there. Normally it's cheaper to get a local plan as well.
You are quite a bit more expensive than the no-name folks I buy from.
[0] https://esimdb.com
I mean obviously it's cheaper to buy local plans. You can't compare local plans to travel eSIMs.
Which locations are you traveling to? Generally, I have the best quality to price ratio for North America, Europe, South East Asia, China and Japan. I saw your comment history and you visited Japan. The cheapest eSIM on eSIMDB in Japan for 5GB shows $2.42 via eSIM DOG [0]. But ... that's for a breakout IP in Hong Kong. That introduces latency on your network. So lets you want to move to a Japan IP, eSIM DOG doesn't have one. Their most expensive option is $7.49 which is a 3x price increase and that comes with a UK breakout IP. Now, contrast that to Akariq where you get 5GB for $4.86 and a Japan IP + NTT Docomo network [1] which has the best coverage and reliability. So yeah, I am generally the cheapest in at least those 4 regions for the quality I provide. I sell the best possible option option in that country and avoid selling junk eSIM plans.
[0] https://esim.dog/jp
[1] https://akariq.com/en/esim/jp/
I guess my usage falls into two categories:
1. I have reliable wifi, and don't need to use mobile data for work
2. I don't have reliable wifi and I have to use mobile data for work.
If I'm in situation 1, then I don't really care too much. The cheapest junk esim works. If I'm in situation 2, I need a large amount of data and need a local plan.
I've saved your site though, never know what situation might come up. I don't know how esimdb chooses who to index, but I would try to get on there (I'm assuming it's free?).
I've spoken to quite a few travelers and they mostly fall into two groups. Those that use airlo or some other big provider or they use esim comparison sites to get the cheapest offer.
eSIMDB is not free, their commission is quite high. So someone is paying somewhere for customer acquisition.
Why not?
And who do you resell?
I plan to make the higher volume data plans cheaper very soon. I'm happy to provide you temporary code to make it cheaper for longer visits you have soonish. Can you e-mail me at `hello@akariq.com`? I don't see an e-mail on your profile.
The one thing I want to add is that cheaper also depends on quality. So for example, if you look at Vietnam - I may not be cheaper than Airalo. But ... a big but, I offer network on Viettel while Airalo does on VTC. So, I am cheaper for what you get for the quality. In addition, I don't route data via HongKong or China to make it cheap. I have in country / region networks for like 87 countries and I keep improving [0]. Very few providers on the market can guarantee that.
[0] https://akariq.com/en/network-quality/
The problem with eSIM is that usually there is no way to judge the quality until you buy one, so people sort by price and choose the cheapest. If your solution offers the best network in the country then I’m interested, because even at x2 or x3 price it doesn’t matter much compared to the other expenses when traveling.
Not sure how you can convince customers outside the hn bubble.
You are right people do go for the easy thing as there's too much decisions to make. I wonder how I can make it even more explicit on my website than it is now.
Please do try my service and leave a review on Trustpilot. I have a few reviews today but far more people have used my service and have been happy with it.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/akariq.com?languages=all
Big bang prototypes have been pretty awful, even after feeding the LLMs huge documents / wishlists / descriptions of how it should work, etc. Part of the experiment was giving LLMs some leeway to make product decisions with a lot of north star guidance, but AFAICT they are really bad at this. I also tried basic bottom-up efforts, which have been better but obviously more tedious. Now I'm trying to find a more scalable bottom-up approach that is more LLM-accelerated
But maybe you should checkout the tools it’s based on, sem - https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem and ultimately treesitter. They at least give a more structured approach to dealing with code than simple text.
doesn’t
> very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it
mean a monorepo is a mistake worth unwinding immediately?
https://backerbase.ai
It was officially Intel-compiler + Windows/Linux only; the port gets it building with gfortran on macOS/arm64, PETSc+MPI solver and all. Fable and GPT-5.6 chewed through the compiler warnings, dependency hell, and portability bugs largely on their own. 30 or so bugs uncovered and fixed along the way, several of them real and platform-independent.
I'm not a C or Fortran dev. Mostly I argued with the agents about benchmarking methodology and told them to re-measure when the numbers looked off. The rest was up to them. Still amazed about this AI thing going on
https://github.com/tdamsma/Delft3D
I told Fable to make a nice plan, and fan out work to opus and sonnet agents. I then enabled remote connections and checked every few hours from my phone and nudged it in the right directions where needed. Have some push back once in a while. And once done I asked it to make a nice commit history and remove all the dead ends.
My goal is to capture the satisfying feeling of sawing & chiselling wood and hammering its parts (jointing) into an usable object.
Now sawing mechanic is done, chiseling shouldn't be a problem. Jointing will be hard.
The techs: Rust, raylib, JoltPhysics. I don't use engines to avoid answering "how to do X in Y" questions while I even don't know how to do X yet. But now I'm considering migrating to bevy to not have to implement (good) shadow, lighting, ... from scratch.
Btw I use no AI except for brainstorming and well-defined & isolated functions. I want to control all my codes instead of begging the LLM model.
I am trying to involve family members' specialties and interests so she can elicit help from each person: entomology, mechanical engineering, etc.
All that for her to discover the Secret Planned Activity the following day (visiting a theme park.)
It's really an excuse to get started with things like hardware, 3D printing, and embedded development - I've never done anything in that world before, and its been really exciting to get into! I've just started, so hopefully I'll have a better update next month.
I had Claude whip up a viewer, which I guess I can actually share. Some real sessions are here, if anyone's interested: https://zork-tmp.taf.codes/
It's a fun problem for thinking about agent/harness engineering generally.
[1] https://github.com/mnky9800n/zork-bench [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15867
We used Meilisearch as the search backend in the beginning but have since replaced it with a quite sophisticated search stack built around Tantivy [2]. We now support crawling and indexing of pages, most common office documents and PDFs, run OCR and feature extraction of images you might have, offer typeahead search with the aim of giving you providing answers as fast as you can type, as well as more classic agentic/conversational ai search.
There have been quite a number of interesting optimization challenges to solve in case anyone is interested. We have search nodes distributed around the globe to provide the lowest possible latency regardless of where the end-user sits.
We are also working on some other smaller side projects, but they aren't quite ready to launch yet.
[0]: https://monocle-search.com
[1]: https://searchcue.com
[2]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy
Longer version: Our usecase isn't entirely aligned with how Meilisearch is meant to be used, I think. For one, we have a very high number of indices (at the time of using Meilisearch we had multiple per site that uses our service) and we wanted to have these replicated to edge nodes we have placed around the globe to keep latency down. In the end I was ending up spending an inordinate amount of time wrangling Meilisearch to get indices up and running across our different edge nodes. And, I am not sure if it was a regression in the last Meilisearch version we used, or user error, but at some point some index creations would just never get done, and would hold up our entire indexing pipeline. So long story short: the amount of effort needed to orchestrate and keep all the individual Meilisearch nodes up to date and in sync just turned out to be too much hassle.
The system I built afterwards works vastly better because it's actually bespoke and tailored to our use case. I can create the search indices on our crawler nodes entirely in isolation, run all sorts of preprocessing and optimizations once, and then just ship the final search indices to all the nodes that then serve them, and as a result I need wastly less computational resources on those edge nodes too, since no actual indexing work ever needs to be done on them.
It also means (double edges sword of course, because Meilisearch already gives you so much functionality out of the box) that I had to re-implement a whole lot of stuff around relevance tuning, snippet generation, ranking, etc, but as a result I have also been able to build interesting functionality than we didn't get out of the box before. And lastly, since the search index is now served as part of our main search node application things also get really fast, as I have no latency whatsoever to speak of going from app to Meilisearch.
AI to generate lessons, excercises AI text to speech to make pronounciations AI to code cards open sources words dbs.
fun 1 month project. gets like 100ppl daily.
https://domio.md/ - zillow for moldova.
same idea - there isn't really a zillow like website in moldova - mostly classifieds sites. so I figured why not - gonna scrape the internet and put them on the map. we'll see what comes of it.
The original idea was just "Stackoverflow but for AI agents" but I have tweaked it a lot, learning that humans and agents work in very different ways.
There are multiple potential benefits, the most important to me is avoiding token waste. Why are we all burning tokens solving the same issues with frontier models if we can simply share solutions?
Secondary to this, because each solution logs the model which made the initial post AND subsequent edits, it will hopefully become a helpful guide to the specialties of each models, long term. If one model confidently posts solutions but another always finds important security caveats, for example.
Some kind of knowledge-sharing seems inevitable, but the question is what shape and form will that take? We've seen wiki's, discussion forums, AI's posting to GitHub.
I feel like knowledge bases for AI will look somewhat different from our past experience.
How will you encourage sharing of solutions? I don't think "social proof for models" will be enough.
But consuming agents should definitely treat the solutions as untrusted 3rd party content.
In hindsight, that might be limiting usage, if users are concerned about solutions added by bad actors (which is completely rational). When I have some time, I'll look at this more closely.
https://www.skills.sh/push-realm/skills/check-known-solution...
So far I've got the analog front end manufactured and sitting on my desk able to stream 40Msps of data to my computer.
I bought some used ebay convex medical probes with like 360 connections and have started to reverse engineer them.
There's a lot of FPGA work involved and ive got AI helping me out. It's surprisingly been really good at FPGA programming.
- https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/03/cas-me-if-you-can-part-...
- https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/06/cas-me-if-you-can-part-...
- https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/07/cas-me-if-you-can-part-...
Mostly me exploring how to build a Treiber Stack (first in Go, then in C++) -> Figuring out ABA and Use-After-Free in the C++ implementation, and then touching a bit of Hazard Pointers, and ending with a benchmark comparison b/w a mutex and a lock-free version of the stack.
LLMs are a great tool at teaching and explaining. I don't use it to generate code, but it takes away the pain of searching and setting up dependencies, tools, etc. So I can focus only on the concepts and then do the testing.
It is not perfect, but I learned something that I did not know thanks to these techniques. And that too without reading dense and obscure books. I love it.
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paul...
I'm looking for alpha/beta users https://cassava.dev/.
Also, have you considered supporting Windows and Linux?
Excel is cripplingly slow (thought more capable). I don't like using text editors for sheet data; it's simply not as ergonomic to browse a CSV as a text file.
https://laws.sg/ - Singaporean statutes structured specifically for AI agents.
https://mylaw.my/ - Malaysian federal acts formatted for easy agent parsing.
I'm on a mission to make all Southeast Asian laws easily accessible by AI agents!
The idea: Everyone must answer 14 questions, then is getting matched with someone who aligns with you. Once a match is found, both have to answer another set of questions and all answers are revealed immediately. If you don't like any answer, you can quit early and land in the matching pool again. If you like each other, you can both decide to get closer. If one disagrees, you will never be matched again. Also picture reveal is only at the end of the 1on1 session and only if both agree to share it.
I got like ~80 users in about 4-5 days - and it is my personal biggest success any hobby project ever achieved, so I am happy. Especially I get so good feedback.
It's invite only, if anyone would like to join, not sure if there is any DM function here - I am new.
My web app is called https://valuepair.app
I made it specifically to bring back what was amazing about the old internet, and do it as authentically as possible. takes inspiration from old internet messageboards, usenet, bbs, and pubnix hosts. it has sealed mail, boards, an rss reader, built-in media player, custom profiles, a links directory, and quite a bit more.
it's just a little hobby art project for me but i've really appreciated talking to like minded people in a calm space.
It's been fun and I've learned starting a community is a lot harder than it looks. Maybe I'll write a post on what I've learned sometime. TLDR and probably no surprise to most: making the software is the easy part.
The project has been really fun to work on because of the fun systems I've had to think about. I had to figure out the optimal way to store the user's knowledge of the words. For example you don't need to store the singular and plural of a word in Spanish or even every verb tense, you should probably store the lemma and track those modifiers instead. It's also been a fun challenge to tell the LLM the user's Spanish knowledge without specifically sending every lemma/word the user knows.
I have seen some similar projects out there but a lot of don't seem to focus on creating the perfect story for the user and instead have them choose a CEFR level (A1,B2 etc). Which I think defeats the whole point of using the LLM. With computers we have been able to track a user's knowledge granulary but now we can do the exact same thing but for creating.
I'm really excited to see how far I can take this project. I wanna continue to polish it, but also there is so many details I can continue to add the make the ideal language learning reading app. I just launched the beta last Tuesday, so if you are learning Spanish, I would love if you tried it out and gave feedback.
https://readplusone.com
I miss working on language learning tools. My attempts were all in the ~2024 era of LLMs.
You should try working on language learning tools again. The models now are pretty good especially since you don't always need the frontier model to generate good stories. I would love for this project to get solid traction so I could distill my own models that are better at meeting my story creation requirements.
Best of luck on the beta & release!
[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4912940/Cardume/
My goal for this experiment was to encode the optimal cache data structures into meta programming generators such that claude can write high level DSL and generate down to this level of simulations. I am curious if you had such an approach also.
I do use some metaprogramming, but as safety rather than generation: a declarative macro derives the modifier struct, defaults, parsing and wire order from a single list, and feeds hash/save/resync so I can add mechanics at a high level without being able to desync the sim. Also a set of probes help me test for correctness and speed after a change. So seems like I'm taking an iteration speed approach with safeguards, checking after the fact, while yours is optimizing beforehand by trying to encode optimal structs. That's fascinating, it will probably occupy my head for a good portion of the day, thanks again.
It's been received well from producers and olive oil enthusiasts (e.g. looking for specific chemistry, cultivars and similar oils) but I feel like I've been shadow banned from Google - I seem to get more traffic from DuckDuckGo and Bing.
Two wonderful books which initiated me into this topic are
https://archive.org/details/lml-remarkable-curves https://archive.org/details/StraightLinesAndCurves
I learnt a lot from these, and found other books which are detailed explorations. Using interactive applets would make wonderful companions for these explorations.
I am planning to use jsxgraph for the interactive applets.
The core idea is using TradingView style alert system as N8N workflow trigger to run analysis and order executions with live market data monitoring.
I personally tried many "AI trading" tools but none of them handle things the way I expect. Most of them run on a schedule based analysis like every 5 minutes or daily, and almost all of the ones perform analysis through a AI black box with no transparency for how the analysis is performed and what data was referenced.
So I ended up making one myself that trigger analysis at more meaningful moments generated by my technical indicators, and run the analysis that I personally configured with inspectable steps and detailed info for better reviews, then tune the workflow to be more reproducible and reliable.
Currently working on a MCP that let Codex or Claude Code be able to edit indicators and workflows, as well as setting up monitors for me. I originally made a Copilot system for this but it's too expensive since it uses API keys to access AI services, would be much cheaper with subscription backed access via MCP :D
I value transparency a lot when it comes to trading analysis, not sure if anyone else feels the same
The biggest addition in the past month is initial support for ngspice netlist export — you can now take a Circuitscript design and export it to a SPICE netlist for ngspice simulation. This is a step toward closing the loop between describing a circuit and verifying its behavior, all from the same source file.
I have also added bus support, which makes wide parallel connections like data/interface (I2C, SPI, etc.) lines much less tedious to connect up.
Recently I produced and tested a 161-LED charlieplexed array in Circuitscript, using nested for-loops to generate the array instead of copy-pasting every LED and connection by hand. I plan to write a blog post soon to document this design.
As always, the motivation is to describe schematics as code rather than by clicking around graphical CAD tools (KiCad, Allegro, Altium, etc.). I want to spend time on the design itself, with code expressing the intentions clearly and reviewable in text.
Feedback welcome, especially from anyone frustrated with graphical schematic tools! If you have a KiCad design you'd like to convert to Circuitscript, please reach out to me. I'm looking to test the limits of the language and happy to help with the conversion.
Here is the repo where the work was happening: https://github.com/mnikic/hurd-journaling
Beyond that, I've been plugging away on improving the user experience of the OneBusAway iOS app, and plan on launching a major overhaul of the stop page experience later this week: https://bsky.app/profile/onebusaway.bsky.social/post/3mqj4ua...
I also recruited a new Android app maintainer who has been doing amazing work!
If you want to explore our new transit API server, I wrote up a blog post a couple months ago to walk you through the basics: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/setting-up... (data for your location can be found at https://www.transit.land/operators)
You can find all of our OSS work at https://github.com/onebusaway — we have projects written in SvelteKit, Go, Swift, Kotlin, and much more.
I was annoyed by the speed of docker on Mac’s, so I took a journey and decided to rewrite everything about it. DD was original working name and I’m in process of rebranding. But we can run docker on Mac’s with no vm. And its destroying qemu. We have plenty of new features that are comming. Rendering native apps, workspaces, much more.
I wonder if some of the macOS sandboxing features can be used instead of relying solely on the JIT
https://github.com/storytold/artcraft
https://getartcraft.com
$3M annualized run rate (looking for more Rust engineers to join me)
https://imgur.com/a/d9DyiIO
If you intersted can just try here: https://scan.skycang.com
Now I write to learn new things myself and my mode of operation has changed radically: I still manually research and write code but I also ‘flesh out’ my writing and coding experiments using agentic tools. My approach is different because I don’t care at all about work efficiency so I spend a lot of time reading and studying material I generate with AI, and iterating in ways that wouldn’t make sense in a business environment. I still write open content books on whatever currently interests me but I am thinking, after 35 years of being an author, of winding down this activity because I think my readers might be better off doing their own research and coding, and with agentic design, research, and coding tools this gets easier.
BTW, I miss the old way of doing things, and some of what I do now is attempting to make AI less noticeable to me as I work, and using AI to work on my own work environment.
Everyone has different interests and abilities, and if what we might call the current AI hype cycle has any lasting value (open question) it is in letting us as humans ‘go our own way’ and customize tech and our life style to match what we want.
This is my side project turned solo bootstrapped startup that I've been working on over the past 2.5 years. Pastmaps has been solely a US-focused platform since it's initial launch but I'm currently working on launching to the UK and Ireland within the next week. If all goes as planned then I should have a first wave of 30K fully digitized, hi-res, and fully georeferenced 1800s ordnance maps available soon to help folks discover the history all around them.
I'm likely going to need to start building out my own global LiDAR dataset next though. My coverage for the US is quite stellar thanks to the data provided by the USGS' 3DEP program but I'm way out of touch with what's available and possible in the EU. It's gonna be a challenge but I'm excited to dive in.
I used it to get better perspectives on the history and place names in Connecticut, from the Dutch and Siwanoy to modern times.
There's a browser extension that reads the content of the article on the page (only when you activate it, using least privilege browser APIs for content scripts) and then narrates the article for you. You get a custom podcast RSS URL that works in (almost) any podcast player, and then you can take articles with you to catch up while driving, walking the dog, etc. All the typical podcast audio controls you're used to like speed settings, skipping, and no new apps to download or learn.
It has genuinely been a big benefit and allowed me to keep up with articles I'd never normally have time to read, plus it allows me to reduce my screen time. My wife also uses and loves it. There have been some interesting bugs in the narration like originally pronouncing "24/7" as "twenty-four sevenths" but I am working through different strategies to get more accurate narration from arbitrary long-form text.
With apologies for the ".AI" domain, it was a bit of an impulse buy: https://earcast.ai/
I built it because I wanted to spend less time drawing boxes in CAD and more time building them. Still early and I'd love feedback from other woodworkers.
Bed frames might be a nice category to add as well :)
I have wanted to build some custom bookshelves for an oddly shaped room I have. Any plans on adding bookshelves that aren't rectangular?
For now rectilinear has made things simpler; but on this kick now with 3d-printed jigs also derived from the spec. I already have a dog-hole system worked out and in-place with this idea. Could be interesting to extend to curves - becomes approachable/repeatable.
The "new" idea we are working on is a feed that ends. Every mainstream app is engineered with infinite scroll. Narro is finite by design. You open it, you see what the people you follow actually posted, you reach the end, and you're done.
Then the next time you open the app you're still only getting new content from the profiles you followed. It ends up creating a totally different user habit.
https://narro.info
I wanted to have a place to see the effect of changing macroeconomic factors, e.g. interest rate, inflation, unemployment, etc. It's designed to show economic relationships for non-experts.
Source code: https://github.com/tagawa/what-if-economics/tree/gh-pages
I never got to design a good representation of the entire ecosystem to simulate (external pressure, debt, military and technological advancements, international soft power, etc.).
"Technological advancement" could just be a decrease in the amount of thermodynamic waste created by an economy (or a particular company) as it converts oil/uranium and calories into useful work.
There's another layer of thermodynamics where wealth acts like heat. Moving jobs from a rich (hot) country to a poor (cold) one is like attaching a thermal conductor. Eventually, the two countries reach equal temperature and it's no longer possible to extract useful work (profit) from the heat transfer. AI is probably like an infinitely cold heat sink that can absorb all the heat you pour into it until your heat source reaches absolute zero.
I have been working on a set of tools and standard formulas that can be applied to these cases and demonstrate a more accurate view of a team's or department's overall ROI. The plan is to open-source the bulk of it, but provide a hosted service for folks who don't want to manage it themselves.
I've noticed that juniors and new hires often fall into an impostor-syndrome trap when reading an unfamiliar codebase or reviewing a senior peer's PR. Documentation helps, but it usually runs into the curse of knowledge: it's written by someone who's spent so much time in the code that they've lost sight of what it's like to be new to it.
I've always liked the rubber-ducking process, and mob programming too, so I'm trying to combine both into a modern AI-enhanced form:
- "Duckies" with distinct personalities (really, skills) that each specialize in a particular kind of problem
- "Teachable moments" (working title): small bubbles that surface something novel, tangential, or foundational as you work
- Skill-level detection and a routing model, so the app doesn't overwhelm or annoy you with explanations you don't need
Each duck also runs on a tiered memory model, rather than one flat context window. There's a core memory, essentially the duck's resume, defining what it's actually skilled at. Above that sits a longer-term memory for company standards and code style, and a separate long-term memory scoped to the project itself. Short-term memory then covers whatever task or feature is currently in flight. The idea is that a duck should reason more like a team member with a real employment history than a chatbot that forgets everything between sessions.
It's called Duckies AI (https://www.duckiesai.com). It’s very rough, working locally, but not in a state I’m ready to ship yet. I'm hoping to ship an alpha soon. Turns out there are a LOT of table-stakes features an IDE needs.
https://openaltfinder.com - To help people discover selfhost-able open source projects.
Been maintaining this for almost a year, and it’s been fun. Keeps me up to date with new OSS.
https://getpinnd.com - A small social network for map makers to created shared lists of places.
Was just a spur of the moment, and ended up building it in little than a week.
This is a common issue for all of us in Viet Nam though, not sure if there's anything you can do your side. I'll figure out how to get my submission through later :)
[0] https://github.com/simstudioai/sim
I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.
Canine basically wraps a Kubernetes cluster -- gives you a heroku like interface to deploy applications to. At some point, if you get big enough that canine is no longer powerful enough, you can just "eject" canine from kubernetes, and continue using kubernetes directly, without having to do any migrations.
Just passed about 2000 developers, at this point most of my work is resolving bug fixes, adding helper text everywhere to make things cleaner, and supporting setups I've never encountered like homelabs with changing IP's
It might be the thing you use to power this system, but the benefits of Heroku were precisely that it didn't need you to think about the guts of a system like Kubernetes.
The magic was in the incredibly concise API, and the fact that it "just worked".
The thing that inspired me was realizing that all of the current platforms that make it easy to host apps today are built on top of Kubernetes anyways -- they just hide it all from you. I'm hoping Canine gives people an option to self host on their own Kubernetes, and with sensible defaults, get basically as easy to use of an experience.
At its core, it uses quadtrees, and has affordances for arbitrary topologies. Check out the planet and donut-world demos!!!!
- https://hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/examples/torus - https://hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/examples/cube-sphere - https://hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/examples/raycast-character-c... (a little slow to load~)
If you're a parent to an autistic child(like me), I'd love to talk to you about this.
If you know anyone who has an autistic child, It would be super helpful if you could tell them about this game.
Thanks!
We are patent pending, and submit our application to YC in two weeks.
Check us out. And if you are building fully autonomous companies/enterprises, we are looking for design partners to deploy our Enterprise level enforcement.
https://vantio.ai
-Zach
https://stainedglassatlas.com/
It's inspired by a post I saw a couple of years ago: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-developer-portfol.... I thought the concept was neat at the time, but never got around to building my own until last month.
More generally, I'm working on setting up a personal website/blog. Did some research and after considering Jekyll, Hugo, and Eleventy/11ty, I'm going with the third. I've been looking for a new role for the past while but haven't had much success, so I'm trying to market myself this way. I've been interested in creating a website/blog for a long time (not that I expect to be a prolific blogger) and this search has given me the motivation to finally get it done.
Website is in mantainence mode but you can access it here -> https://anitroves.com/
I started them with ebitengine (Golang) but got somewhat frustrated with its web builds, and so built my own thing for small games that I want to work great on mobile or native PC, but also on web. I call it NanoGame, the host is written in Rust and the games are AssemblyScript. I've ported a number of other small games I had written to it as well, but haven't released any.
Two of the games I released a couple days ago were actually the ebitengine versions, but have partial ports to my framework, and the third I released the version using my stuff.
https://scramblequest.app - ebitengine, word search game where you slay monsters with the words, has a long campaign as well as a daily challenge and unlimited play
https://wordpeek.app - ebitengine, another word search game, this one reveals pieces of a picture and your goal is to guess the picture
https://playsilhouette.app - my own framework, this is a simple matching/hidden object(ish) game, more for kids
I also made a little umbrella site for them at https://playthese.wtf
I know Go UI frameworks have a long history of not quite getting there. The bet I am making is that WASM is now fast enough, the tooling is mature enough, and the fine grained signal model avoids the VDOM overhead that held earlier attempts back. Would love an honest critique of whether the framework actually solves the problem and whether it's usable for other's development experience.
https://github.com/yogisalomo/goowee
Are you using the built in WASM target? I've been told Tiny Go's WASM build target is worth investigating but haven't tried.
I'm currently using the built-in WASM target but Tiny Go is one of the items that I have on v1.0 road map. Will give it a shot and see if it actually helps with the size without affecting any performance.
It uses DuckDB to expose a sql query interface in the website itself because I wanted to give the freedom to just do something interesting with the data.
My friend John had an idea which I really liked so I added "john mode" which shows what he was suggesting :-D
I think that Hackernews might like it but honestly, I have probably just made it out for myself and also as something to just share casually with folks on hackernews and other websites and hopefully I am able to help people and myself in some way with this website.
Open to some feedback as usual (for mostly all my projects really) and thanks for reading and have a good day dear reader and hey perhaps give my website a try!
https://idlequest.net
Considering how difficult it can be to get certain versions of the game running nowadays, it's nice to have another option to explore the world! I tried and tried to get EQ1999 running on different Linux distributions (Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS) but just couldn't. Only version that worked is the official Steam client.
Scrolling in to use first-person, or clicking the view button to toggle it, might make your life easier in small spaces. This was true in original EQ, too.
[1] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Anna-Analog-Computer
I recently created a benchmark and it looks like GoModel is the fastest and most lightweight open-source (self-hosted) AI gateway on the market. I tried to make it as fair and honest as possible and you can reproduce the benchmark yourself.
https://enterpilot.io/blog/benchmarking-ai-gateways-gomodel-...
General thesis here on my blog: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/i-spent-the-last-month...
I hope to start a golf architecture consulting company with the model, with a target of helping smaller courses improve the strategic interest of their at the lowest cost possible.
Ability to measure strategic changes articulated here: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/measure-2000-times-cut...
Not exactly a huge market, but this model should help clubs identify why boring holes are boring, and why interesting holes are interesting, and should be a very inexpensive way to try out permutations of changes without paying an architect hundreds of thousands of dollars without actually knowing whether the design will work.
Currently building an expanded golf shot dispersion pattern model, based on multiple variables, from dataset available to the public.
I launched in April, and I've been steadily updating it as time allows. Really happy with how far it's come. Here are the notable privacy-by-design features I've led with:
https://mediaden.caApart from that, I recently started getting interested in the AT protocol ecosystem, so I built a directory [2] for discovering ATProto alternatives to mainstream/centralized products.
[1]: https://personalfinancespython.com
[2]: https://atprotoalternatives.com
Essentially, this Tetris variant adds one change: a single 1x1 square that once placed, every turn it "grows up" by one. That is, once you place it, it will be a 1x1 square. Once you place the next piece, it will be a 2x1 piece. Then after the next piece it will be a 3x1 tall piece. It gets out of control if you don't manage it, but is actually a pretty fun addition. Maybe I'll make a post when it's finally hosted.
Aggregator for new posts in build threads from 277 old-school DIY forums.
Build threads of people building cars, 4x4s, motorcycles, boats, airplanes, hot rods, musical instruments, etc.
Good luck with your build and perhaps I might get interested in future too as I did once have a thought that having a custom car to me would reflect more cool-ness than an expensive one. I am really interested by small cars, perhaps retro. I imagine my favourite car to be somewhat like the car that Ryan gosling drives in La La Land.
but a cool project nonetheless, certainly thinking about it inspires a bit of car enthusiasm within me even though I am not that much of a car fan so much right now so a really cool project if it can help more people feel this spirit. good luck :-D
I have a question but how does building new (retro-inspired?) cars go about in terms of pricing. I feel like they might be too costly to get custom-built and that If I really ever in my life go about doing this, I would prefer DIY but I still imagine that it might be too expensive or hard to make a car. Are there any go-to cars which are easy/recommended within this space and how does it compare off economically and what are the technical expertise that you require with this type of stuff?
Once again, I wish ya good luck in the project and would love to hear your answers for some of the questions I have!
You're right that getting a car custom-built is where the costs add up quickly; easily north of $50K. Most of the cost is labor, which is $0 if you do it yourself. Some of the projects are much easier than others. If you want to fall down a rabbit hole, look in the kit car and hot rod categories; lots of affordable and small builds in there. The Buick Riviera in La La Land is more of a resto-mod cruiser project, but the small/retro itch is exactly what the kit car category scratches. The first step is to find a forum where people are building the car you like, and start following related build threads. That's the majority of my social media intake these days.
Speaking of which, I had made something at https://mirror.forum which revolved around forums and their ability to create communities on open source discord alternatives and it was always intended to revolve around forums/communities.
Feel free to check out my website for understanding what I might be talking about but I would be really interested in perhaps having the list of forums on my website so that people can search them through.
Do you have a list of forum websites that you used for your website or any resources pointing to that, I really like what you are doing and after thinking for sometime I think that it could be cool if I could use my application to point out to original OG forums as well. I would be curious to know what you think!
Overall it acts like a 'Choose your own adventure' book, but you learn while doing it. Currently supports Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Runs on a 4060 16GB card.
I’ve used it to build a grocery store list, credit card perk tracker, address book, mini-golf scorecard app, and a bunch more. It’s really helped having all of the “platform” stuff handled for me so I can just focus on the app.
Ok, so, how many of us see something like this, and instantly just want to do it ourselves in our own way? I've seen at least 5 different versions of a "self-hosting platform" make their way on HN, sometimes more than once, but every time I really look at them, they just don't fit quite right, and often end up abandoned a while later. I've tried to make my own, and never have gotten anywhere worth sharing, and the couple times I've tried what others have made, I haven't been able to do what I want.
I mean the idea is really good. Make it easy to host apps for yourself and your family. But it seems like we're all more interested in building the platform than actually picking one, or two, platforms and turning them into something sustainable...
Anyway, what would it take for you to actually use something like this that someone else built?
Or am I just dealing with a bad case of not-invented-here?
No buzzwords. No "AI." Just what it does.
Notable projects/prototypes:
https://filipkunc.com/posts/meshmaker - 3D modeling app ported via Claude to WebGL2
https://filipkunc.com/posts/text-rendering - Wrapper over Slug and Harfbuzz in browser
https://filipkunc.com/posts/gemini-game-art - custom art using Gemini for Heroes 2 (fheroes2 engine fork)
2. My take on an agent framework ... append only log + content hypergraph in Elixir, tools that regularly pull data from other services into Postgres—built as a kind of 'exoskeleton' around claude/codex so it's not competing with fast-moving tools.
Thinking about category theoretic models of computation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03817
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Some things I want other people to build:
- Indexing for Github
- All-in-one social media ingestion libraries for agents
- GOFAI-inspired knowledge / semantic / research graph stuff—I want to point agents at rules/structures for writing connected, verifiable statements
* TimeTracker (https://time-tracker.hosgeldin.click/) because I needed a privacy friendly freelancing tool that I needed personally.
* A simple exercise tracker that my wife requested from me (https://daily-menu.hosgeldin.click/) - later I will build a menstruation tracker that is connected to the Daily Menu.
* My magnum opus, "MyApps" (https://myapps.ideasofhakki.com/) - This is no less than an OS running in your browser, equipped with whatever "Apps" written in it. I am building it with GunDB and Svelte and foundationally it will be a web of apps running completely in your device (i.e. offline first), with privacy and data security built-in.
* Cram school management SIS for Turkish education system (https://edusis.hosgeldin.click/)
I am building an agentic access management platform, where you can simply say "Hey, could you give James access to WorkOS until today?" from any LLM surface (Claude Code, ChatGPT), the platform goes ahead and checks what kind of access SHOULD James have given his department, and role (Product, PM? Viewer; Engineering, SDE-1? Developer; Engineering, SDE-3? Admin) and provides it within an hour. I could speak a lot more about custom policies, roles etc but that's the direction I am taking my product. Working towards a simple phase 1 to deploy at my company.
and bidirectional markdown sync for all those apple tools
https://original.me/
Tools like this exist, but every one I tried is uploading the session details somewhere in their cloud and try to monetize this.
So I built the version I wanted: free, open source, and local. There is no account, no backend, no telemetry. Sessions live in IndexedDB in your browser and exported as a zip.
What it records:
* Clicks, typing, page changes, network requests and responses, console errors screenshots, video with sound
* Your voice, transcribed and placed next to what you were doing at the time
* Annotations: Arrows and boxes you draw on the page's screenshot
Note: Passwords, auth headers, and tokens are masked at capture time
All events are lined up in a timeline with timestamps
At export you pick a detail level with a live token estimate, so a long session still fits your model's context window.
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Repo: https://github.com/mohsen1/session-recorder-chrome-extension
diffy makes reviewing GitHub PRs easier, especially the large ones where GitHub starts freezing and memory usage spikes. I'm using Pierre's Diffs and Trees for rendering the diff and file-tree. Under 2MB, you get 50+ themes, split/side-by-side view, comments, review flow, syntax highlighting for 100+ languages and much more.
It was my first time launching a tool publicly, so it's been a great experience. The feedback so far has been incredibly helpful, and I'm using it to keep improving the product.
https://diffy-website.vercel.app/
I worked at a startup [2] building in the space for a few years and it reignited my childhood love for collecting and trading, and turned me on to the software side of the industry.
We're in a little golden age of DIY collecting tools now, but most hobbyists and sellers don't have a design background and get stuck recreating the same primitives (badly).
I spent a lot of time thinking about them, so I'm packaging them up and offering them for free. This first release has the basics (cards, grids, stacks, filters, value charts, detail pages), with more coming soon.
[1]: https://cardspark.dev
[2]: https://rarecandy.com
Triply periodic minimal surfaces are the golden standard in thermal management, acoustics, and even medical applications. But minimality itself doesn't contribute much to practicality. We use them because they are simply studied better than the non-minimal surfaces.
So I'm studying the non-minimals. They are much more governable, what I link to is a demo of a surface builder with two levels of control. Next, they are conjugatable including conjugations with different period of self (that will be the following paper), they generalize nicely to non-periodic or partially periodic surfaces, and they work in other space configurations. E. g. I'm now playing with bi-periodic curves that cover the 2D space with self-replicating hexagons.
If all that I'm experimenting on today in 2D will turn out well in 3D too, we'll have a whole new direction in implicit modeling.
I wanted a middle ground between web apps and Terminal UI that allows for things like raster images, vector graphics, simple audio support and file transfer; to let me move more apps and workflows from web apps to a lighter experience.
I have an old laptop that I love and is very nice to use, but since it has only 2 GB of RAM, using multiple web apps is out of the question. I live on the terminal and SSH, but it has its own limitations, like spotty support for images, no audio at all, and ReGis (for vector graphics) support is not available in a lot of terminals.
I've recently finished implementing both client and server libraries for multiple languages (with the help of AI), and right now I'm in the process of fully testing and squashing all bugs and inconsistencies. Next, I will port a couple of applications as a proof of concept.
I plan to publish the source code very soon to receive feedback.
https://pentaton.app/blog/2026-07-12-introducing-pentaton-lp...
Part of my job is to approve / reject MCP servers based on how secure they are and whether they are suitable for use in an enterprise environment. I was tired of my team being called the bottleneck to AI adoption, so I set out to automate the whole process.
I periodically collect the MCP servers and every new version from the Official MCP registry and assign them a score based on 29 distinct criteria like runtime guardrails (e.g. destructive tools, over broad permissions, rug pulls), SAST scans and transport & trust model.
As a result of this exercise, I found that 1 in every 10 MCP servers is pretty much unusable (score 40/100 or below). 18% of the popular MCP servers with 1000+ GitHub stars contain one or more security issues. 184 servers to date have changed their tool definitions after publication, which may indicate a "rug pull" attack.
I built this for security minded people who also want to be at the forefront of AI adoption and for security teams who are tired to be called the bottleneck.
Browsing the index is completely free, you only have to request an API key if you want automated, programmatic lookups for any workflow.
Feedback is always welcome!
The main reason is because I wanted a privacy-preserving way to access my email without using ChatGPT or Claude or another hosted email connector. Also, this supports connecting multiple accounts, even multiple accounts from different email providers, with a unified API. And you can use it with any AI agent, even one you build yourself.
It supports Gmail API and IMAP/SMTP right now, with Outlook / Microsoft Graph coming soon.
You should be able to customize the permissions per API key as well, so if there's a case where you want to write or send something just one time then you can just swap in the API key and do that and swap back if you want to.
There will also be a dashboard (in addition to the CLI) so that you can easily audit everything that has happened in the system.
It can be tried for free: https://www.runautoflow.com
I'm hosting my own docs on it at: https://www.docs.runautoflow.com
Started in response to challenges I encountered at my last job in setting up and maintaining a full set of user guides for our SaaS product. Target users are SaaS founders, product manager, developers, indiehackers etc.
StudyEngine is a webapp I'm using while doing my masters in comp sci. I upload lecture notes, textbooks, papers, etc. It then extracts topics and tracks my mastery of them over time. It uses an LLM to generate questions and flash cards. It loops in some newer learning science ideas. It tests recognition first(multiple choice), and then once a level of mastery is matched, it switches to recall. Working on adding RAG to it, so I can surface where in the source material something can be reviewed when going over quiz results. Currently just for me an some friends. If can get a good eval set up, I might work on optimizing cost and seeing if it could be opened up.
NomNominees is simple webapp that tracks James Beard, Great American Beer Festival, Festival of Barrel Aged Beers, and other awards. I use it when I'm traveling to find places to check out. Even just a cluster on a map shows me neighborhoods I might want to check out.
https://studyengine.app
https://www.nomnominees.com
docstube generates documentation from your codebase, fact-checks every claim against the source, writes it for the people actually reading it, and keeps it in sync as your code changes. What sets it apart from other such tools is its advanced verification engine (validates both deterministically and using AI agents). So you can actually trust the outcome.
It's currently in private alpha, and not ready for testing. Public launch is planned for first half of 08/2026.
I went on sabbatical to fulfill my dream project - consolidating years of training logs. I'm enjoying the technical challenges involved - digitizing paper hand written logs / visual models, navigating the maze of athletic metrics with their crazy trademarked names and multidimensional models. Having fun building AI coaches: agents ranging in character from Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday to the coach from my teenage years, utilizing ICL model-based predictions, ... and more.
The best part is the rush of memories while ingesting my own history - photos and recordings I completely forgot, as well as navigating data shared by friends.
This month has Strava & LeCol everesting challenge - signed up and added support that suits my needs to MyTraL. Good times.
I know what motivates me: seeing progress. The feedback loop of "do X, see Y gain" is what keeps me going.
So I started building an integrated dashboard that can aggregate data from multiple systems:
- My digital scale
- Apple Watch (sleep + running performance)
- Beastmaker Motherboard, which is an electronic board that you attach a hangboard to and it shows you various stats like how much force you're applying
The idea is that every morning I'll open the dashboard and be able to see exactly how much progress I've made the previous day: weight loss, strength gain, cardio performance.
It's an interesting problem. There's essentially two parts to it: Apple Health, which aggregates data from the scale and the Apple Watch and can POST-export it hourly, and the electronic board, which sends data via BLE in real time. The destination for both of these will probably be an always-on Raspberry Pi 5, but I haven't decided yet. Then I'll have a small server app that can pull the data from the Pi and draw some fancy charts.
The idea is to see trends and try to apply AI for correlating, at the first glance, completely unrelated data layers. Example how I'm thinking about this one: there's somewhat clear correlation that I sleep better when I do above average steps per day. How is my sleep quality affected if, let's say, I did above avg steps with a bad air quality at that time? (i.e. wild fires / pollen season / etc.)
I've built a Go application to ingest those data sources and currently finishing my first import use case - Apple Watch data.
Would be happy to connect and chat about this.
Your library. On your Mac. Links, images, PDFs, sorted by on-device AI. (Apple foundation models) Local. Private. Fast.
One time payment. No subscription. Software is yours forever. As it should be.
https://bookmarker.cc/
Can you let me know how it goes with the trial?
Tracks temp, humidity, wind speed, and precip chance and you set the parameters.
Notifications are currently email and web push. SMS is too expensive to run as a free service. I think the next direction is probably an app, as web push support in iOS is not great.
This is my second iteration because the first version felt like a simplistic fit and improvement over their existing vendor provided app.
I have now designed a domain model based on my understanding and observations. I have a day job so I can't spend a lot of time in sync with the team. I have created a web app where the NGO management can test scenarios (by recording voice), and the AI (Claude Agent SDK) runs it past the domain model. In case, there is a gap, they can persist the scenario. After every iteration, I read through the scenarios and assimilate them into the domain model.
It helps me to automatically save a tab that's not been used in a while so it auto-closes it but saves it as well as having the ability to snooze a tab like how you'd do it in gmail.
Everything is locally stored with 100% privacy in mind.
And vim like navigation is natively done.
Today, Gisti ingests customer feedback from every channel your customers already use, synthesizes it into a prioritized, evidence-backed list of opportunities, and lets product teams interact with an AI agent to explore, validate, and act on each one. We are building Gisti with a philosophy of complete automation for specific workflows.
We are looking for Design Partners, please hit me up at shubham@gisti.ai. I will be in SF late August if you prefer in-person meetings.
Please ping me / email me if you are interested in a demo / demo account for deeper analysis.
It's been fun dealing with memory and C's weird design in this age of agentic coding.
Most of these projects come directly from problems I run into.
One example is cloud cost management. There are plenty of dashboards that show where your cloud bill goes, but I haven't found one that actively points out the small, easy-to-miss services that quietly charge you month after month. Each charge is tiny, so nobody notices, but over a long period they add up.
Since I work in the data infrastructure space, I also built a tool that helps people install and configure databases. Setting up a database still involves a surprising amount of manual work, and I wanted something that made it much more straightforward.
Another project comes from my appreciation for GitHub Actions. I like the workflow, but much of our code isn't hosted on GitHub, and our deployment environments are all different. So I started building an offline CI/CD system. It can package code, copy artifacts, deploy them, run validation, and execute AI-generated deployment scripts. As long as your code lives in a Git repository and the target machine is reachable over the network, it works regardless of where the Git server is hosted.
All of these tools run on top of a backend platform I call *MotherBoard*, which provides the common pieces: authentication and SSO, metering and billing, products, subscription plans, and other shared services.
I've noticed that almost everything I build starts with a problem I personally encounter. In the past, I'd think, "That would be nice to have," and stop there because building it would take too much time. Now the implementation cost is low enough that I can actually build it. And if it turns out other people have the same problem, maybe it'll make a little money too.
1) I recently published my latest milestone here: jakedecamp.com
I'm building it because I have an analogue delay and an an analogue tremolo which each take tap tempo input I want to be able to slave them simultaneously to my DAW (Reaper). I could only find one product (Disaster Area Designs micro.clock) which seems to readily do what I want, and it is hard to find and expensive.
The software side has been pretty easy for me, now I am just troubleshooting the Arduino -> relay connection as currently it is not behaving.
I'll probably sling the code and other docs on Github at some point :)
Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?
https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
Basically, I built the scrobbler of my dreams. I love it to bits! I'm a professional software engineer for ~27 years by now but I only now got around to building that thing. :)
If you're in the hobby, the issue is that keeping track of paint and color combinations is annoying and is very mind numbing since wet paint color differs from dry point colors, how colors combine due to transparency of the layers, and different companies have different binders/pigments.
Currently have the paint combination setup and trying to get minifigure gaussian splatting setup from an image (Used to work in gaussian splatting for a while and actually figured out how to improve vggt to get a better one-shot)
http://paint-production-1f6c.up.railway.app
I wanted to create an all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for an entire universe in one place while crafting stories, novels, movie scripts, TV series, or stage plays.
I also wanted the ability to allow for the limited use of AI in a way that only functions as a sounding board and does not write for the user; Where fiction writers could have access to tools such as a virtual assistant that they can converse with about their stories and world-building, but without it writing anything for them.
There is also an option to use the application without any AI tools at all.
Currently in the early access and bootstrapping phase, the system is meant to help you find which event you can go next and also plan your whole season, organize your calendar, link up with your friends, track your progress as a rider, and see where you stand on the global rankings and between your buddies.
There are more ideas than time to implement them as this is purely a hobby project, but doing my best as I go along. Planning to start advertising it a little bit in relevant groups in the coming weeks.
Automated network port change detection. Scan17 provides a solution to the question:
So your CTO decides to outsource firewall management - and the vendor carelessly leaves a network port open, exposing your production database. How does your team find out before an attacker?
Think of it as nmap port scan diff-ing. If a network port goes from closed to open you get an email or webhook alert. There is a REST API for automated workflows and privately hosted engines will be supported for some plans. There is a wait-list form on the website if you want to stay in the loop.
If you work in infosec / cyber security and are interested in being an early product designer / beta tester, let's chat! See my profile for how to get in touch.
https://github.com/aklos/scryer
It's still pretty experimental, but I think now that AI can feasibly generate code from intent/specs it's worth doing... especially with how much vibe coding is both a blessing and a curse.
Basically, what if we took those markdown specs everyone likes using and systematized them into a model graph, anchored claims to code, then represented that as a wiki? And what if we surfaced a planned change to a codebase as a diff of the definition of that model? You can then properly keep track of what gets implemented and how, because you're no longer reading an essay from the agent as a plan, you see a complete diff of everything it plans to do.
I've been using it myself for work, but it'd be nice to get some feedback from other people's perspectives.
so i built prereview to speed up that review-fix loop. you run it in your repo (or point it at a file, a dir, or a running dev server), click what’s wrong: a diff line, a markdown/html block, a region of an image, a box on a live site — and leave a comment. the comments go to a csv, your agent reads it and fixes things and tells you what it did via a comment or even posts suggestions which you can accept or reject. it ships with a claude code skill, but the handoff to llm is just an open csv protocol, so any llm cli can drive it. stuff that might interest people here: single static go binary, fully offline; it reviews docs/images/live ui as well as code; comments re-anchor when the file changes under them. it’s mit and still early but I use it everyday. Its here: https://github.com/livetemplate/prereview
On-demand, procedural audio programs (w/LLMs). I’m working to make these embeddable in software such as games and health/wellness apps.
Would love to hear how developers might use it.
UDB has full transactions, selectable persistence (in-memory, eventual, strict) and consistency (SI, SSI). A lot of time was spent on performance.
Written in Rust, with 8k line of code and 15k lines of tests, 96% coverage. Formal verification with Lean 4 is in progress (see /formal), also consistency checking with elle/jepsen is in progress.
some examples https://vessel-ops-dashboard-4c3976e79335c1aa.agentry.live/ https://local-goods-shop-54ce3b368e0d41f6.agentry.live/
Rally-X: https://linsomniac.github.io/rally-xy/
Tempest: https://linsomniac.github.io/teapot/
Dig-Dug: https://linsomniac.github.io/digger/
And not an arcade game, but a multi-player throwback to a multiplayer shooter game my team used to play called nSnipes: https://github.com/linsomniac/isnipes
iSnipes does require downloading and running a server, the others you just play on the web.
I started with the idea of replacing my phone with a texting device that can still keep me connected but realized phone has became utilitarian that it is not possible to replace it.
I still have to take my phone when I am outside but when I am home or at work, I now use hammer exclusively to text or to get answers. The most benefit I have got is that I don’t have the urge to open my phone and go on endless scrolling binge.
[1]: https://github.com/TheBestTvarynka/grafily
Next Move Theory is a methodology with a step-by-step algorithm for every product decision. It lays out every tactical and strategic move open to you and helps you choose the best, with the odds on your side. The foundations are open and free. AI skills run it on your product.
Dozens of cases in my home country, zero presence in the US — now I'm working to make founders and PMs in the US aware of it.
https://nextmovetheory.com
maybe this way is better? https://github.com/zamesin/Next-Move-Theory-Canon-and-Skills
It's a little webapp that solved a problem I had when ordering PCBs: I was too cheap to buy the stencil when ordering the PCBs from China, but then I regretted it when I had to paste by hand. Because of this, I did the PCB Designer -> DXF -> CAD -> Add margin -> Add outline -> Print workflow by hand, but that became very tedious, so I built this to automate it.
It runs entirely on your local machine and it is hosted on Cloudflare pages, with the only costs for me being a domain name.
- Set up an in-house alternative to my Ring subscription for the cameras around my house. So far I have it real-time monitoring, complete with AI face recognition and interpretation of events, all on an internal web page. It also sends me alerts via Telegram.
- Set up a blog that I'm using to catalog these experiences with Hermes and AI in general
- Started working with multiple agents to do things when appropriate. My main model right now is glm-5.2 for cloud, and Qwen3.6b-IQ4 (4-bit quantized) running locally. It only takes 18GB of VRAM on my 4090, so I have plenty of overhead. I'm also using Hindsight instead of the MEMORY.md that Hermes natively uses.
- Setup local image generation, with the local Qwen model, using ComfyUI w/Flux.
- All of the above isn't including the numerous smaller jobs (like setting up Telegram, setting up automated cloud backups, troubleshooting Linux issues, etc) that I've been using Hermes for.
Future plans: I'm working on making a game with Godot, learning as I go. I haven't had Hermes do anything for that, and I don't want to really, except I may use local image gen for testing purposes, as I plan to engage an artist for any graphical work in the final product.
I'm doing all of this just a learning experience. It's been really fun so far.
Migrated my beverages app from notion to an actual webapp my wife and I can use: https://stefanludlow.com/beverages/
Built a bunch of slime mold art: https://stefanludlow.com/art/foraging-network
Project I've got in progress is a migration of the old DIKU mud engine from C to Rust and making a Moog Model D synth recreation in rust with a JS wrapper.
I used to work at Native Instruments, and super happy to now work on something for myself instead.
All I wanted was cmd+space fullscreen quake-overlay with low input lag so I made it. It fits my workflow exactly so it might be a bit weird for someone else.
You can test it out here: https://getmot.app/
It's connected to all papers of course, and all kinds of scientific simulators and specialised models. But I'm currently in Shanghai talking to labs to join a CloudLab (and hopefully setting up our own robotic labs), so that AI can actually order real physical experiments that are executed cheaply, efficiently and seamlessly as tool calls.
Through experiments like autoresearch we have seen that AI is already, if not always smarter, at least more systematic than humans at following the scientific method relentlessly (hypothesis-experiment loop). Let's see what we can do by connecting it to the real-world :)
It’s basically snake meets scrabble meets PvP stealing. It’s a novel idea and I think it’s cool it hasn’t really been done before :)
The issue is it’s too complicated, the onboarding is dogwater, and the aesthetic is too complex
So I’ve spent the weekend fixing onboarding, fixing and relaxing the visuals mix and simplifying mechanics.
I’ve also tested LLMs playing the game through a harness I wrote. LLMs get smashed, they can form words and steal, but they lose badly to conventional bots.
I’ll be exposing an LLM leaderboard on my next release (hoping this weekend) with links to game replays for the LLMs.
Would love for people to give it a try, give me some feedback, and say what you’d love to see on the roadmap.
[0] - https://snibble.gg/
Completed games can be “replayed” and replays can fit in a QR code upto 30 minute games. So I think that’s pretty cool
But everyone who has played has had the same feedback lol so that’s what I’ve been changing this weekend :)
Thanks heaps for trying it!
Combat is mostly inspired by Sekiro. Here's a minute of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8NJhd3Ks3k.
Already learned that it gets way too hard too soon, so this week I'm adjusting the training and difficulty curve to avoid frustrating new players.
If you liked Sekiro, have a PC, and want to playtest, please get in touch!
It originated from a project with my son where we created a nesting box out of an old wooden shelf and added a camera on the inside to see what happens. It was taken over by a Screech Owl and it's been fun to see what happens in our backyard at night.
It's called "Hey Hannah" because it was inspired by my friend Hannah asking me for travel tips for her family's first trip to Japan. I had a few texts worth of thoughts I wanted to persist -- and prettify -- so I could share them with others in the future, too.
I personally find saving screenshots of text messages to be an unreasonably effective way of saving information. I can search by text in the Photos mobile app and share directly from there.
This was my first coding project with AI. I used Cursor and mostly Claude to write it. I had no mobile dev experience, but I did have 10 years of webdev experience, including five with React, so it was a relatively smooth process. I got a great feel for what to let Claude do and how to work around its limitations. For example, I made a secret expanded palette of background colors (and a slightly different secret palette for text), and Claude choked on sorting them by brightness -- so I made a test to check the outputs and then had Claude write a helper function to sort them client side. Good times.
I am officially converted to writing code with, at least, the assistance of LLMs. I'd love it if folks could download the app and give me any feedback they may have. It's open and free in all the ways and I collect no data!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hey-hannah/id6751516377
https://github.com/DecentralizedDan/hey-hannah
https://github.com/malmoos/malmo
I saw the options out there were not fully open source, or had other limitations so I started working on this better one. Based on Debian, apps are docker containers.
I do work to adapt current open source apps, but it's so great to make them available as one click install.
I want to make it easy to run on a cloud VM or an old PC kept in the pantry. There are so many cases for self-hosting now that we need to make it easier to do
Source stores repositories in a database rather than a filesystem [2]. The primary goal is to rely on databases for durability, replication, and distribution, rather than introducing complex distributed filesystem infrastructure into the stack.
[1]: https://github.com/iainjreid/source
[2]: https://git.iainjreid.com/source
As someone who's constantly on the look for new music to discover and being very deliberate about the things I'm listening, I needed a better way to organize the albums I want to listen to, listened and liked. And also I would like to see the discoveries of other folks who I know I like.
Original Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551862
https://talmud.dev/?lang=en
Update: Hopefully this can help those who completely misunderstand the nuance of this ancient text (usually from antisemitism) to better understand what they are reading.
It introduces a new document type called a gnoom: a living document that knows who has read it. When the document changes, read confirmations reset, so you can see who is up to date.
I built it because important decisions kept getting buried in chats and then discussed all over again.
It’s a free beta and doesn’t require an email. Curious if anyone else has this problem. I’d also appreciate any feedback on Gnooma.
Simplest File Renamer - just ported from Electron (130m install) to Tauri (3mb install) - https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer
Simple Image Browser - browse your images in style (on PC, Win, Linux, and tablet /phone) https://github.com/whyboris/Simple-Image-Browser
It came from a frustration that I needed to switch between the browser and the IDE to navigate through the code and leaving comments on Gitlab at the company.
So I thought it could useful to create something and let it be accessible to the public as open source.
link: https://github.com/LuyandaLia/reviewflow
In a nutshell, it accepts draft comments, which can be modified and submitted.
It auto configs the env for Python as it uses FastAPI for calls to Gitlab.
It's my initial attempt. Suggestions, reviews, contributions are invited.
One love
It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the changes into entities and sorts based on what has the most dependencies. This tends to put the most important functions first. Plus I can click through the dependencies for each function and mark things as reviewed as I’m reading them. It’s a big improvement over the GitHub review flow for me at least.
Housecat is the first email inbox that helps you get real work done. Our email connects to the other services you actually use like your Claude, Notion, Slack, CRM and Github and makes it easy to send messages and data between them. So if you need to update the CRM with a new lead, track a Github issue or ask a question of a colleague in Slack, you can do it all from right inside of your inbox. We just launched the email app in private beta.
Check out https://housecat.com/ or join the beta at https://home.housecat.com/welcome
Feedback and thoughts very welcome!
Created a new website and new icon manager: https://clarity.pl.eu.org
Complite - Elventy template/starter
https://complite.jcubic.pl
And a Polish WikiZEIT project:
https://wikizeit.edu.pl
And ALT - LanguageTool for Emacs
https://github.com/jcubic/alt
Adding small tools to help understand specific option strategies, and once executed understand optimal action (exercise early, let it expire, wait)
Personal tools, for my use. No commercial angle in mind.
I've been working on a Ebook reader called WizRead with a friend for 2+ years now, as a side project. The goal is to create a platform where users can read and share their reading stats, goals, ideas, by also providing a modern & friendly UI.
Currently we have only developed a desktop version for macos/windows/linux, but we are willing to conquer the mobile too!
Yes, you can use your own API key as well.
https://jetwriter.ai
Feedbacks are welcome.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
[0] https://tableforge.gg/
Tell us what you're looking for (ex. move-in date, bedrooms, location, rent etc..)
We reach out to buildings that may offer what you're looking for
You get a calendar of tours (in-person or virtual) when buildings confirm they have exactly what you want
We schedule efficiently so you can easily check out buildings and don't have to worry about logistics (ex. how close is building A to C if I walk?)
Currently available in the DMV area but more areas and services (ex. verified moving companies, utilities switch, move-in/out cleaning) coming soon!
1. an extension to my shop (I have a shop! I never thought I would have one of these) for water treatment and food storage.
2. an agentic framework that I started on in January - maelstrom. You can find the current code here: https://github.com/zerohumancompany2/maelstrom-code/tree/ske...
The whole point of this framework is to increase the robustness of agents so that small models (30b class) can function over long time horizons reliably. Other goals include auditability (full agent sessions are stored durably and can be branched/rolled back/restarted from any point, all over-the-wire comms are also durably stored) and reliability (sane fallbacks for common failure cases).
The current iteration (sketch 7 or draft 7 or 8) is specifically a coding agent framework. In the future I'd like to expand the core to handle a variety of tasks.
1. A music recommendation tool based on Last.fm scrobble history.
It's graph-based, no ML or "fancy" techniques, but I've had good results with it so far. It builds recommendations based on a listening window or just recent history. It combines several different recommendation algorithms (including an Auralist-inspired "serendipity" score for novel recommendations, meant to simulate the serendipity of being recommended something novel by a friend), scores and ranks candidates, and takes in feedback that inform subsequent recommendations.
Fun project. Found some good new music with it already. :)
2. A code exploration / indexing tool with CLI and MCP interfaces for exploring concepts and impacts of changes in a codebase.
Essentially, an overwrought "find all uses" that doesn't depend on exact symbol or string matching.
I have a codebase of non-trivial size, but thankfully it's fairly well-structured. This tool indexes the code and bundles modules into "concepts" -- these can be auto-discovered or preconfigured. Dependencies, inheritance trees, symbols and symbol usage are all also indexed.
Then you can ask, "what's the impact of extending the domain model of XYZ" or "I want to remove this property" and it shows where to start, where to look next, and fuzzy edges or dependencies that might need deeper exploration. It surfaces non-obvious connections, too, or things a junior dev (or LLM) might miss, like when a model is mapped to an API DTO, or intermediary states, etc.
It's been useful for a new dev exploring the codebase, because you can ask in terms of business concepts instead of needing to know the exact symbol name in the code. And it's been much more token efficient than grep for exploration subagents. But it's limited to dotnet only.
Also, full disclosure, because this was written entirely for myself, the code behind it is 100% LLM generated. I set the specs and direction but didn't touch code at all, just let agents churn while I did my day job and tested the results later.
For the recommendations:
- Seed selection is performed by building a mix of seed artists from recent listening, lifetime favorites, old obsessions, and underexplored artists.
- Seed weight combines `log(1 + play count)`, track diversity, number of listening months, and a recency decay
- Candidates are generated at the union of artists reached by "similar artist" edges through Last.fm and MusicBrainz-enriched local data (APIs are used to enrich DB initially, then after that it's all offline)
- Discovery excludes known artists, hidden and recently-reviewed artists
- Discovery requires edges with at least two distinct seeds, or one strong seed edge
- Discovery is scored by similarity (Last.fm + tag), feedback, and rediscovery thresholds. Then score is subtracted for excessive knownness within a genre, obviousness, recommendation fatigue, and shallow prior listening. The thresholds are by default but configurable:
- Serendipity is additional score provided when a candidate connects several seeds that are themselves weakly connected, or are in separate connected components. This is a weak implementation of the Auralist serendipity algorithm, and will be improved on.- Finally, diversity reranking; a greey MMR-style reranker.
It's for iPhone, and for the best experience, Apple Watch. It's very early, playable via TestFlight, and I would love feedback! There's a TestFlight link at: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co
https://video-commander.com
Constantly iterating through refinement and features. It's built on Rust + Tauri with a React frontend, in case anyone is curious.
I've created various open-source and commercial tools in the multimedia space over the last 10+ years and wanted to put it all together into something more premium with an IDE-like experience.
I'm looking for design partners, if you're interested would love to chat: https://www.promptster.ai. We also have a hiring product: https://www.promptster.ai/hire.
I noticed none of the apps felt native to the iPhone, and I wanted something that felt on-part with the likes of Flighty, Things 3, and such.
Out of my love for weightlifting I then shipped Plates and have been working on it ever since. It's a completely native iPhone lifting app (SwiftUI/UIKit) and I've gone quite hard on native UI elements such as custom keyboards for plate-loaded exercises and RPE/RIR inputs, native animations, and nice haptic feel. It has no backend servers and no tracking SDKs, yet it still supports things like cross-device sync thanks to Apple's CloudKit. The best part is that it's just a one-time payment.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/plates-weightlifting-log/id675...
Website: https://useplates.com
It's possible to change the weight and distance units there, as well as the effort metric (rpe/rir/none).
I'm an iOS 18 holdout, any chance of a backwards compatible app?
https://fotohordr.app/
Recently Ive been experimenting more with coding from my phone using Claude Code for the Web. Its basically turned Github Actions into my development environment. Its enabled me to fire off a quick prompt in planning mode, go play with my kids, review and approve the plan while Im cooking dinner, then let it go 10 rounds with the AI code reviewer while I put the kids to bed. As a busy parent I feel way more productive than if I had to carve out sit down focus time for a side project.
https://www.healthsharetech.com
Instead of music or long podcasts, you are given something to imagine. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one.
In short → Close your eyes, listen & imagine.
If you're building client-side/frontend apps and want to let your users BYOK, OpenRouter's PKCE flow is great for that.
Otherwise I'm still working on Untether (https://untether.watch) - a suite of digital-minimalism apps that let you stay connected and do quick actions on the watch while keeping your smartphone out of sight (and your hands).
A focused and functional service for event hosts to collect guest photos through a shared link/QR code that leads to an upload page. Think photo gathering for weddings, bachelor/bachelorette parties, corporate events, big birthdays, etc.
There are many of these out there, but I found most unintuitive ("too complicated for Grandma"), too featureful, and/or much too expensive.
A daily puzzle game called Dozenal that I've been making with a friend. We've been increasing our user base over the past couple of months and are still trying to refine the learning curve.
If you like number puzzle games, I would be very keen for you to give it a go and to hear your feedback on it!
Business objects as state machines.
The idea is to reduce the number of moving parts and simplify processing architecture when building apps that need to be transactionally rigorous and scalable.
It stems from the patterns we used to successfully apply in banks, which worked really well. I believe it's an effective way to get shit done in a broad class of systems. You just need to first get your head around it.
https://medium.com/@paul_42036/whats-an-entity-database-11f8...
https://github.com/agtilden/misonos
AI-first, MCP ready to host single HTML page. Connect & publish directly from ChatGPT app.
It lacks monetization, but I have a BMC tip jar LOL
It's going quite well so far with growing MRR each month.
Lately, I've been trying to focus more on marketing, and sales. I might try ads soon as well.
* https://docking.cc
* https://github.com/edumucelli/docking
It has X11 and Wayland support, pre-built packages for all major distributions, almost 60 baked in applets.
For those into Linux and using a dock bar, I am sure you will like it.
I wrote it because I was too lazy to learn how to use KiCad's layout features properly, and thought 'how hard can it be?'. Several months later, I had this.
It's not intended to compete with Altium etc. but it certainly produces compact, valid and fully design-rule-compliant boards with much less work that doing it myself or using one of the low-cost remote labour platforms.
It uses constraint logic programming to solve the hard parts of the problem. Hierarchical decomposition of the circuit design helps reduce combinatorial explosion, which was a show-stopper for early versions of the system. Current indications are that I may be able to scale it further in the longer term to deal with more complex design scenarios and larger boards, without hitting the exponential cliff.
The goal hasn't changed too much, make building decks easier by knowing exactly what you own and where it’s stored. You organize cards into boxes, search your inventory, search friends’ collections, and keep track of trades instead of digging through a similar closet of cards that my daughter and I search for.
The fun part has been the AI. I trained computer vision models that run entirely on the phone to detect and identify Pokémon cards. Training has become the slowest part. For the model that needs to be retrained every new release, I’m up to about 5 hours per epoch on my M4 Mac with 16 GB of RAM.
The Android app is currently in public testing with people from my local Pokémon league. It’s built with React Native, and I’m working on the iPhone version next.
Still lots to build, mostly around product and ux, and because a recent stupid mistake on my part, backups and deployment safeguards.
I've been full time on it for 4 months already and dogfooding: https://beolis.com -- starting to look for feedback, although I would say it's not where I want to be yet, but getting there.
AnswerJournal lets you save AI answers to a personal journal just by saying "save that to my AnswerJournal" mid-conversation.
Each answer gets its own URL, and posts can be public or private. It's a bit like GitHub meets Stack Overflow for the answers AI gives you.
It connects to any MCP-compatible AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc.) through one server URL.
Moving a lot of files from old laptop to new, lots of duplicate videos in scattered directories with different file names.
Point the CLI tool at a directory and up pops a ncurses application that scans from the directory you specify (recursively), hashes all the files to get groups of dupes, and then ranks the dupes into a table (that looks like top) so you can work your way through the dupes and decide which to keep without your hands leaving the keyboard.
It automatically ignores typical developer directories like node_modules so you're not tortured with noise in the result set.
Hit 'p' and a preview pops up so you can double check they are indeed dupes, if it's a media file the preview window autoplays the dupe videos in tiles with zero volume.
Supports a dry run mode, and switches to cover behaviour like sending dupes to trash rather than hard deletion.
- https://smacke.net/ffsubsync -- automagically synchronize subtitles, now purely client-side in your browser thanks to pyodide
- https://ipyflow.github.io/ipyflow/lab/index.html?path=demo.i... -- reactive python jupyter notebooks, again in the browser thanks to pyodide / jupyterlite
- https://smacke.net/pipescript/lab/index.html?path=demo.ipynb -- magritter-like pipe / placeholder syntax for ipython / jupyter, again able to run purely in the browser
- https://smacke.net/pycograd/lab/index.html?path=pycograd_sim... -- pyccolo and pipescript-powered autograd, once again able to run purely in the browser since numpy has a wasm target (notice a theme here :) )
A tool for enforcing code architecture and conventions - https://tajd.github.io/cofferdam/ - these sorts of tools come along every week, but this one is mine and it's v quick to run and extendable.
And then I'm currently working on a game for winning the start of sailing races as that's quite a tactical and fun problem to break down. Will be releasing something there soon!
Any demos available of the web based browser?
It allowed me to explore a serverless deployement (on CF workers) with a toy project, that I wanted to make for myself.
Repo here: https://github.com/ariroffe/hnsubstacks/
https://feedbun.com - a browser extension that decodes food labels and recipes on any website for healthy eating, with science-backed research summaries and recommendations.
https://rizz.farm - a lead gen tool for Reddit that focuses on helping instead of selling, to build long-lasting organic traffic.
https://persumi.com - a blogging platform that turns articles into audio, and to showcase your different interests or "personas".
Took a long break earlier this year to recharge, but now I'm back at it again, mostly working on Feedbun, about to launch it as an early alpha. :)
Our device has an easy traffic light system, and a tailored guide to ventilation based on the shape and size of the room.
You can try this here: https://locksteparcade.com/Client
Games included in the arcade, currently:
- Neon Swarm, a take on the classic lemmings game, with multiplayer versus and coop modes
- Serpents, a snake game (where you eat food, grow a tail and need to avoid this growing tail), with inertial movement and multiplayer
- Spirits, an homage to N++, where you work together to get someone to the exit, while avoiding enemies, figuring out how to open doors, and so on
- Pilots, a multiplayer asteroids battle with homing missiles
Each game solves the network delay problem (the problem of providing immediate feedback to user input and hiding the fact that actual changes to shared state are delayed) differently, and it has been very interesting to work through a bunch of different approaches to this.
If anyone else here is working on multiplayer network games, I'm very interested in setting up a regular "play each other's games" session.
The idea is that regularly playing with other game developers will help develop a kind of 'scene' (where you get a group of people together who make work in public but really aimed at each other, pushing and unblocking one another to become bolder and better at an accelerating rate, as described here: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/scene-creation-engines ).
If you are interested, let me know!
It's essentially a high-quality alternative to the HTML-PDF route so many people take for document generation. It's designed as a tool for AI agents.
Something cool we've released - an MCP server makes it possible for models like Claude to design fully-featured documents. We use this internally and some of our customers now use it to quickly build new templates.
Just launched self-serve a few weeks ago. Continuing to develop the typesetter and language behind it.
Press is the language, docs are open [2].
Would love any feedback from folks that have worked on document generation, or people with experience doing HTML->PDF.
[1] https://papermill.io/
[2] https://docs.papermill.io/
- Each component in a mini app in a heavily locked down container - Components are deployed and built in a web workspace, in the same workspace you can open a terminal and use your favourite coding agent to work on component code (each terminal is itself heavily sandboxes, has rw access only to the edited component code and users home dir) - Everything comes with heavy rbac and minimum permissions - Oh so much more
Explaining this well is hard, much like explaining to someone what Kubernetes or AWS does. This is at a level of what a sophisticated company infrastructure team would run, just as a workspace you can deploy for yourself easily and agents just build within that framework (I’m a cofounder of a infra/compute/datacenter startup and intimately familiar with this kind of complexity)
The main thesis is that Claw-style agents still feel like school projects, and that in the agentic era apps on demand will be more of a thing, and that the current systems weren’t built to deal with a whole new app built every few minutes.
May or may not end up as open source soon
Pendragon sits on top of Roundtable, our proprietary Agentic AI framework which splits data into knowledge domains. The key advantage of this is isolated input domains which prevent context bloat and strictly control access and ensure information isolation.
https://pendragon.foxtrotcommunications.net/
Since my last post in February, I’ve gotten to ~25 paying users, which is cool considering it started as a fun project. Sorta a niche within a niche here.
The market is distributed across a bunch of 3rd-party marketplaces, and there's no 'simple' API that provides genuinely high-quality data for the few marketplaces that matter. It’s a surprisingly complex problem, which is probably why nobody else is bothering :).
It's been a super fun project, and I've been able to learn about collecting & managing a high (to me) scale of data, building an API from the ground-up, and creating my first 'commercial' website.
Website is @ https://cs2.sh/
The API is built w/ Go & Clickhouse, which I've also been super impressed with so far in terms of performance and efficiency.
Web design is inspired/somewhat taken from turbopuffer's site, since I really liked it.
A text-based song format for generating music. I wanted to be able to create a song entirely using text, so I created a TOML-based format for doing so, and gave it most of the features you would find in a DAW. Since the format can be described in a SKILL file, AI can be used to write a song in this format, which can then be converted to audio.
Everyone who plays D&D has experienced the moment where they forget key details about the collective story they’re building. From ‘hey it’s been a month, where are we?’ to ‘wait who was this crazy npc again?’, ai is excellent at transcribing, notetaking and building a knowledge graph of your fantasy world.
I’m still building mostly for myself by adding a ton of features I know my friends would want, but also think there’s some ‘there’ there.
The idea is simple: let Loracle record your sessions on discord or upload the raw audio of your sessions, then get a rich personal wiki and session notes you can interact with.
If you’re mid-campaign you can also upload session notes from plain text and it bootstraps a campaign wiki. Then future audio based sessions have a good base of npcs, quests, characters, etc to build off of.
At this stage I’d love feedback more than anything else. Happy to comp a lot of usage to HNers in return for some reports on how well it’s serving you. Email admin@loracle.app for anything and everything.
If you’re open to the idea of composing code blocks and ideas, plus some generative UI exploration, feel free to join!
Most recently we added support for creating custom dashboards. You can compare return with leading/trailing/rolling charts for investment options and benchmark (create custom dashboards tracking nav and value chart of) your portfolio (or a subset of assets you own) and US stocks, etfs etc. And family dashboard (e.g. you can see networth, cashflows, income, use sheets at family level and more). See https://finbodhi.com/changelog for details.
We also write about related topics:
We wrote about comparing investment options: https://finbodhi.com/docs/blog/compare-charts
Benchmarking your returns: https://finbodhi.com/docs/blog/benchmark-scenarios
Understanding double entry account: https://finbodhi.com/docs/understanding-double-entry
https://play.xor0game.com
The game is basically the XOR operator combined with set-style game mechanics. What makes it better than other set style games, imho, is that there's a mathematical property of "projective sets" that guarantees that there is always at least one valid set on the table.
I'm also writing it in java, which is quite uncommon for this type of software, but I hope it'll be way more stable in the long run (in the sense of security flaws and maintenance) than projects made in python and js.
I'm also working on an update to ShopifySharp, the .NET package I maintain for Shopify's graphql and rest APIs. I need to regenerate the graphql types and the fluent query builders for the July 2026 API version that was just released, and I'm planning on some extra QoL improvements that I've run into while using the package over the last couple of months. I particularly want to add some F# QoL features, since I wrote the package in C# but use F# in all my personal projects. (https://github.com/nozzlegear/shopifysharp)
I’ve been playing around with aligning drone footage to flight paths. I'm really interested in the idea of representing a video as a volume, planning to do something similar with non-drone video too.
I find that nobody really knows how to do this. Machine learning can detect some song attributes well (bpm, ez right?) but it's inconsistent with some things (eg mood, spotify valence)
I prefer to only add metadata that I can rely on: track credits & instruments (when available), lyrics, bpm / "energy" and genre. At least that's what I've got for now. I'm not adding anything unreliable.
So far I'm able to pick a genre, artist or even better, song and it gives me a list of tracks that are similar. I can alter the weights of "era", "instruments", "genre".
So far i haven't run old school NLP on the lyrics but that's the next step. It's likely to be far more informative than "valence"
Anyway, not public, still very alpha but I like it and find it useful.
Oh, and migrating most of my stuff to microvms on https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/pve-microvm/
Recent work is all top-of-funnel. Free no-signup self-assessment and exposure-scan tools that pull in people who don't yet know they have an obligation.
Live demo (no signup): https://demo.cvdportal.com
I spend less time in an editor now, but it's been satisfying being able to take features I've enjoyed from other editors and customise - and it's oriented a bit more towards exploring code than editing. Key-bindings are arranged such that bare letters are for motions, Shift- variants are then used to extend selections, Ctrl- bindings are for buffer mutations, and leader-prefixed bindings are application level (e.g., opening pickers).
https://github.com/joefreeman/aether
https://truetrials.substepgames.com
Previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749027
Tonight is a meeting of a local group growing hemp locally, processing and spinning by hand to make an item of clothing locally and sustainably between us all.
Just spent the weekend at a wing chin gathering with some incredible people. They showed me so much I need at least 2 weeks to think about it all.
Apart from that I’m starting college to study therapy and counselling soon so I'm trying to read up to be a bit prepared.
That's all very well and good, but what of the Caws of Art ?!
A while ago, I realized that most new agent harnesses being built must be hosted on your machine or on a VM--in other words the agent needs a full OS process at all times.
But we do not have good harnesses being built that are multi-tenant, do not use compute while they are paused, but are are still as powerful as, say, Claude Code or Codex, OpenClaw.
So I set out to build one. I realized that the best substrate for these kind of agents are durable workflow engines. I'm currently supporting Temporal. AFAIK much of OAI agent infra is built on Temporal too. My harness is decidedly not just another agent SDK, but rather a battery-included product.
[0] https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/lightspeed
A macOS menu bar app to alert when apps start using too much resources and drain your battery. Helped me diagnose many leaking Chrome tabs and macOS bugged services.
https://crashguard.io
My favorite feature is I built a Stream Deck plugin for it so that I can monitor things from my Stream Deck XL while I'm doing other work, then if a button goes red or whatever I can just click it and it brings up the admin portal and shows me the workflow that failed.
It's still kind of in the alpha state but it does work pretty well.
It's a web-based game for 1-8 players, features a tutorial and bots, plays like a board game, and operates with economy, bluffing, forward-planning, risk-taking, course-correcting mechanics.
Play as an amateur psychic navigating a fictional stock market. Receive premonitions, call in your wizard friend, navigate dividends & earnings releases, and chase the glamorous annual investor awards.
If you try it out, please leave me some feedback :)
It's a way to augment small/overloaded security teams. It can pentest and then generate a pentester-style PDF report for auditors and procurement, triage incoming e-mails from security researchers by then checking whether the vulnerabilities they claim actually exist and are exploitable, hook into GitHub to scan for vulnerabilities and auto-propose fixes or file GitHub issues for you.
It's free for Open Source projects, if anyone here is maintaining one
Me+team have been working on a large scope problem this past year. We're hardening some of our internal tools, and choose this small-scope problem about a month ago. Results have been encouraging so far, though not yet non-sloppy enough to share. We'll release in about a month.
Going into this, I thought I'd be spending most of my time tuning computer vision. Instead, the majority of the time has been handling codec and ffmpeg behaviour edge cases.
Automatically drawing hint lines has been a request from a few people. When I talk to personal trainers or athletes (new or serious) in various sports, I've tested out this concept by asking them what they'd want drawn. Turns out, it's so contextual, opinionated and subjective, I don't think there's a great approach unless I assume we have an unrealistic amount of context.
e.g., one case is kettlebell swings. You might want to see how consistent your swings are in a set, and between sets. To do this well, you'd need to reliably detect the kettlebell swing exercise using some N-way classifier. And then, correct for camera position. And then, center the relevant part of the body (is this shoulder? hips? turns out people have different opinions).
Instead, we're going to use a more generic visualization approach that doesn't try to be opinionated. But, I'm expecting to open-source the visualization front-end so it's tweakable by users.
https://github.com/cgopalan/s3fileviewer
Saw you using DuckDB at internal/handlers/api.go
Wondering if you’d considered letting queries operate at the bucket or key prefix level instead of requiring key to specific file? Or is that already supported?
I’ve liked being able to point DuckDB to a folder following Hive partition scheme, and then querying it just like Spark/Trino would over many files
I agree, it would be more beneficial to query on patterns, but the main use case I saw for this app was non-tech folks wanting to see data in s3. I assume they wouldn't do fancy stuff like querying multiple files. But maybe I should add that functionality. Thanks for the suggestion!
Being unemployed and wanting to make something, I started studying quantitative trading concepts and got into algorithmic trading.
I decided to build out an algorithmic trading platform using the tools I developed for myself.
It's written entirely in Rust but user algorithms are written in TypeScript. It uses a Cloudflare-workers inspired approach to run the user functions.
The server uses under a megabyte of ram to run and user functions also use a negligible amount of memory per invocation.
It's also super fast, with round trip latency of 3ms - well, at least it does when I use the proper server. I'm running it on my low cost server right now so latency is around 50ms.
I know no one will use it, but it's been very fun to make
KEIBIDROP: Makes remote files appear as local (it hides the network latency in order to let you open and edit a peers file without downloading it upfront or re-uploading it fully back).
For version 0.4.0 I am planning multi-user support, using UDP (QUIC) instead of TCP as the networking layer, optimization of live-edit regions of files, and to test it even more for data heavy workflows.
Here is the website: https://keibidrop.com/
And here is the github: https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop/
There are 40+ nodes that can be used to generate and modify images, videos, audio, or vector graphics. Some of them include Crop, Resize, LUT extraction, Levels, Audio Compressor, Ken Burns, Mesh Warp, Recorder, Noise Gate, Compositor and Signal Builder.
It also supports signals for dynamic and time-based configuration values for the nodes. For example, making blur strength change from 30 to 0 gradually in the first 2 seconds of a video.
It uses a WebGPU pipeline for rendering and a homebaked engine for workflow processing.
It is free to use except for the AI nodes and workflow agent. It is not officially released yet, and feedback would be very valuable.
First iteration is ready to fly, just working out the infrastructure at the moment. Hoping to drop this on Show HN soon. If anyone is interested in test driving this prior to launch, I've temporarily added my email to my profile.
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The core is built in Rust, a native CLI is built on top for local experimentation but the most interesting part is the web version: the core is built to WASM and get augmented with many tools in the JS land: - OPFS access (read, list, edit files) - Sandbox Python exec (Pyodide in WASM) - Sandbox DuckDB exec (DuckDB-WASM) - Draw charts - Show images - etc OpenAI Completions compatible API providers are supported.
But if you want a full local and sandboxed execution of the whole agent, the web version bundles also wllama to serve local GGUF models (with WebGPU optional support).
Github repo: https://github.com/rclement/cooper
https://github.com/momja/Exhibit
I've been helping people achieve their reading goals by hosting workshops at libraries and helping adults become more intentional about their reading goals and how to achieve them.
https://github.com/RivoLink/leaf
https://mastrojs.github.io
The best part has been that I think it's significantly improved things for humans too; it's weirdly satisfying to be able to measure improved ergonomics. Also, since a big pitch/theory was that the language should be ideal for agents as a result of the original nice things for humans it was designed for, it's a relief to be able actually measure a concrete lift.
[1] https://trilogydata.dev/ - SQL with types, composable functions of arbitrary complexity, and a native semantic layer.
It creates a CoW copy of your workdir for the agent to play in, and then you pull changes out using git diff/apply semantics.
You control network access, secrets, which files/dirs it has access to.
It's a MASSIVE time saver, and I use it as my daily driver.
https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai
Currently crawling over 1M records/sec. software is still in alpha.
scry.io.
goal is a 10PB NVMe cluster online by November (need funding champions) as a public benefit project, so prosocial researchers and builders and their agents can have low-friction access to running analytical queries over the public internet.
I grew in ideas and attempts over the years, and it finally got along far enough I actually made it available. The progress in LLMs made some things much easier that I conceived in 2020, but other things didn't get better.
https://elephant-project.net/
Now that I made it this far, I had to realize though that it is far from what I had imagined and needs much more work.
Having a hard deadline of Sept 1st, I wasn't sure three months would be enough time. In Newspeak, it took all of three WEEKs to get it to it's current state.
One of the best features is the fact that it's local ONLY. It uses IndexedDB (Newspeak library written by yours truly) to persist the data, meaning zero backend headaches. It also makes it usable by the masses where the Seaside version had many problems in this regard.
Chrome only. No Clod.
https://chalculator.com/primordialsoup.html?snapshot=ChucksF...
Indeed, it is super complex. It's been much harder than we initially expected. We'd thought maybe two years--it wouldn't be fast, but it would be complete. But things like invokedynamic instruction, annotations, etc. have added complexity far beyond what we originally expected. But it's been highly instructive. And it's great fun to see full Java programs execute and watch the instructions fly by as they execute. On average we're presently at about 1/3 the performance of the JDK with the -Xint (interpreter mode) flag set. (Some of that performance penalty is due to using go vs. HotSpot's use of C.) We hope in a year to be able to invite interested folks to try it out with their code.
Hello! I am building and testing a tool that categorizes links as the tagline above suggests into a searchable and viewable human friendly timeline. My goal is to make a nice tool that helps me transform my old link piles to something I can use - and for full transparency maybe earn me some of that token money back eventually?!
https://threadlinelinks.com
Please help me test pasting a slab of old links and see if the categorization works well.
(I used emergence.sh for this project, my first time testing it - nice but pricey)
I am speaking to initial customers and from my initial pain at my day job it was going to be a way to be "Lovable for your existing product" . But it also seems like it might turn into "internal cloud to host dashboards non-technical people are making with Claude".
I'd love to talk to anyone that's in Product or Ops or Sales or Account Management or Customer Success who'd either like to make changes to their existing product without the need for a developer. Or maybe they have thrown something together with Claude and have no idea how to "get it into production".
Have spent the last month giving the UI a bit of a modernisation refresh and simplifying/improving some elements based on early user feedback. There's also been a boat load of performance improvements in the dirarisation and document generation pipeline.
Feel free to download the prerelease version (its unsigned) here - https://downloads.blazingbanana.com/whistle-enterprise/unsta...
Underpinning my current app is an e2ee local-first sync engine, basically it is a traditional client-server sync (encrypted logs + snapshots sequenced with integers). It sends bundles of Loro CRDT operations. I wrapped the client side in WASM to power the web app and the CLI and have started a swift wrapper to port to native iOS. Bundle size is 3MB/1.2MB g-zipped so pretty happy with it. I've realised that web encryption is kind of bs (at least not as "WE CAN NEVER ACCESS YOUR DATA" as some vendors state) if someone else is distributing the app.
Over the last week I have done a lot of performance work & data remodeling - CRDTs are interesting because you can let data fall through the gaps if you're not careful.
https://github.com/slidr-cli/slidr
Makes it easy to use Claude Code or Codex interchangeably across multiple computers. Personal editions are free, I have a hosted commercial cloud (workgroups share AI history) and commercial self-hosted option available.
It has macOS and Linux clients and I released a guide for setting up the source-available, self-hosted cloud option this week: https://contextify.sh/docs/self-hosted/
I am thinking about the other AI cli environments and providing support for those as well.
If you have time to try the app out, I'd appreciate any further feedback.
I myself am the first medical doctor and full stack engineer in the history of my country (250 million), graduated as a doctor at age 25, and we have over 100+ users [all of which are medical/dental students and doctors], 10s of billions of seconds studying smarter, hundreds of millions of questions solved, and more.
Our Super App has subsystems including MedGPT, MedAgent, Spaci (our own take on spaced repetition) and much more.
We're bootstrapped, and continuing to scale. If you are in medical school or know someone who is, please reach out!
https://medangle.com
If interesting in receiving a beta testing unit, let me know!
I went on a side quest to strip out ProseMirror and markdown-it and implement a custom stack instead. I open sourced both the parser and editor (https://saturn9.studio/technology/):
* Markoffset is a fast, plugin-based, incremental Markdown parser: https://github.com/saturn9studio/markoffset
* Scribeframe is a text editor engine: https://github.com/saturn9studio/scribeframe
https://knotend.com
https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/MachinaLayout.JS
Pretty much just SwiftUI-like layout/style in TypeScript with a bunch of utility tools from other languages I like, like Rust's payload enums, table helpers, LINQ-like queries, state management, etc. It's framework neutral so it works with React, React Native, and Vue right now. Everything is just plain TypeScript that compiles to the DOM, so no HTML or CSS needed for most normal web apps, they can all be written in plain .ts or tsx files.
It's called peek-cli: https://github.com/puffinsoft/peek-cli
https://dmschulman.com/shelf/
ChatGPT validates your spirals. We help you prevent them.
We're in the middle of v2 over the next few months based on everything we've learned since launching ~a year ago.
As a habitual side project guy for the longest time, it's so satisfying to finally stick to one thing and go really deep. This thread has been highly motivating.
Also finally closed the first real customer on it recently!
I want to get through a large chunk of the open issues the next few weeks and then spend some time building agentic capabilities for it. I believe a central place to configure database access for your dev team without having to share passwords and with sensible review policies should also help e.g. if claude needs to access production data to validate a premise.
Still have to figure out the right UX though not sure the agent should have the exact same review requirements that a human does. Maybe it needs to be configurable separately
https://www.schuetzler.net/blog/world-cup-tracker/
The audios were all generated locally, essentially looking at the contents of the website, running it through a LLM to generate a script and Kokoro for TTS.
I’ve built it as an app for myself almost a year ago, so I deployed it as a vibe coded website in here: https://audioguide.london/
https://zenexpenses.com
I did some kind of meta thing, because bownI can create apps with llm (like Claude) and expose an mcp on theme (like the notes and todolist apps).
I've been automating many chores that i find myself usually doing with email: managing calendar invites, publishing and sharing calendars, but also want it to act like a proxy to avoid giving away my actual email in different services. It's a work in progress but I love cloudflare ai gateway, been using it to bring some ai into the functionalities. Future things: handling newsletters, more ai free use (?)
If you wanna test it, please ping me so I add your email to allowlist!
Been working on it on and off for 4 years now. I used to lead an ML consultancy and one thing I've learned is that data scientist DO NOT understand reverse proxies, nvidia drivers, docker and can not set up complex environments for their projects, especially ones that would support collaborative work.
It's been really fun to work on this, currently working on Kubernetes support.
I really like Coder, but one thing for the life of me I couldn't figure out is that even with the self-hosted version, why does anything have to go through their infra?
With trailer.dev our explicit goal is to have a fulfilling user experience for the following scenario:
If you want we (the trailer team) can run the server component for you, but that's it.I tried spinning up a coder instance just now again, with docker, and I'm being tunneled through US East Pittsburgh with 117ms of latency for a local dev environment tool :(
Have you tried setting CODER_ACCESS_URL to your own hostnamE/IP? I think that disables the tunnel setup
- BrowserBox just landed WebAuthn (passkeys) - for now just macOS clients: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
- This website is served entirely from a 200Kb binary: https://200kb.freelang.dev
- An open SSH server with a TUI web browser: ssh krnl.duetbrowser.com
- All the government's 300K+ pages of UFO files released so far: https://hypergrid.systems/war.gov-ufo-viewer/microfilm5?fram...
And more
It's a slow business and engineering catalyst that I'm making progress with behind the scenes each day. Suffice to say I'm taking the scenic route!
Currently working on a unified website submission flow for submissions and topic creations (topics are collections of websites) and after that I'll be looking into overhauling the whole site focusing on accessibility and how I can make that a great experience.
I love to cook and this is such a fun combination of using my skills with web technologies and food in such a happy marriage.
https://github.com/thegagne/aep-conformance-test
Did pretty well, only took a day or so. I first had it inventory every MUST, SHOULD, and MAY in the spec, and then let it rip. I did guide it quite a bit to get what I wanted, but at the end I’m pretty happy with it as a first draft.
Helped me learn the spec and will be helpful to hone my dotnet AEP server, and aepbase.
There already existed an aep e2e validator which does a similar thing, but this is more thorough and generates a nice report. It will tell you not just whether your API follows the spec, but also what parts of the spec it does not implement.
Started with just an html page with buttons for shortcuts. Added a few paragraphs and then got tired of writing html. Not many simple wysiwyg desktop html editors surprisingly.
Then discovered Zola, a static site generator that takes md files as content, and adds them to template html files.
Perfect for my little use case. I'm having fun with it :D
Also, in this environment, users can have a full cluster with Kubernetes, Docker, or normal Linux, with a database and all sorts of dependencies.
Please check it out and let me know what you think: https://easyenv.io/
We've had three back to back heatwaves so far this summer in the UK. THREE!
Hopefully it inspires people to make an informed decision to get the best price and starts generating more questions and leads for solar companies.
https://solarable.org
Still a few weeks away from getting everything working but it’s functional already and I have a half dozen regular users who’re my beta testers :)
Most critical infrastructure orgs don’t have the budget to hire consultants, and even if they do, the deliverable is a deck, or a spreadsheet, or a PDF. We want to help any org of any size create a security regimen outside of these stale and disparate docs. For FREE.
Plus we have additional tools that we are building on top of the free software that will help in other areas besides policies and procedures. Like OSINT of any orgs operational and physical footprints.
It's a bookmark plugin with a couple features I felt were missing from existing bookmark plugins. At my job I often have to navigate large codebases that I didn't write, and it's easy to get lost. This plugin should help with that.
Recently, I've added a simple ML model to filter out false positives. In the last month, I found and flagged more than 40 malicious Python packages.
Unlike the LLM approach, my library is not susceptible to prompt injection and deobfuscates Python code. Where LLMs see "obfuscated code, potentially harmful", my library decodes it and sees what's happening inside.
https://github.com/rushter/hexora
It can run adhoc or scheduled queries and send the results to ClickHouse, or store them locally in Parquet files and use DuckDB to browse the results. It can also initiate YARA scans and collect the results. It also supports policy evaluation and alerting.
One of my goals while building it was to use it for device posture checks. Currently, alerts can be integrated with VPNs and proxies to allow or deny requests from devices that fail certain checks, but this requires manually parsing the webhooks. Over the next couple of years, I plan to focus on making those integrations easier and more seamless.
Edit: One major feature I’d like to explore is device identity and attestation using TPMs or secure enclaves. This could allow Checkpost to verify that requests are only coming from enrolled devices.
https://www.overplane.dev/ (Apache-2.0)
1. Analyze data where it resides
2. Connectors and detectors are not a moat
3. MIT license every line of code
4. Fully exploit AI for investigation, maintenance, and self-improvement
MallCop runs on Donuts (e.g. tokens), which I'll happily resell, or you can BYOK and use your inference API of choice.
Obviously this is going to take a bit more work but at least the resource usage will stay low, which I consider quite important. Especially since gamers are a large portion of the user base.
[1] https://autoptt.com/
[2] https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear
If you're an early stage b2b founder, I'd love to hear your feedback about TractionBeast.
[1] https://hyperclast.com/ - fast, self-organizing, self-hostable replacement for Notion
I think "Your Art" tagline is confusing - I thought it was for selling paintings.
My original idea for this was to compile an Ansible-like playbook to a binary. I made a POC for it around 2020, and then it sat on the shelf. More recently I picked it up again following a more Terraform-like model. It compiles IaC to a binary with all dependencies included, standardized CLI options, autogenerated configs, optional visualization in the browser, and lots of other features.
To people who say just use Terraform: I do, a lot. But it still bothers me enough to try building something different.
Always-free résumé (CV) website and PDF from plain text, grounded in the best resume-writing guide and the best designs.
https://www.metanoia-research.com/review-001-the-power-of-th...
Any thoughts or feedback are welcomed.
Goal is to help people move off of relying on Facebook/Instagram groups. And to support people who want to make some beer/coffee money off of their hobbies.
It started out in life as a bunch of post-it notes for friends who were watering my plants while I was on holiday, which evolved into a long text message, a Google Doc, a static site, a simple CMS, then Wattle. The more I look around, it seems like there are lots of use cases, so I'm having trouble with my positioning.
"Digital guidebooks for vacation rentals, home swaps, sitters, carers, and more."
The MVP was released last week :)
When looking at a SaaS idea I always ask myself, "will this add enough value to compete with generic and free tool X?"
If your app is just pictures and text based (with AI search), I wonder if it adds enough value to compete with just a Google Doc that's also text and pictures (which surely also offers AI search). A Google Doc could also use comments to collect questions.
Visiting your home page, I was actually looking for AR (augmented reality) or plain camera powered features. E.g. point at a window sill and say "how do I open this?". Point at the washer controls and say "how do I do a fast wash? How long will it take?".
This could be especially useful for controls/labels in languages that the guest doesn't understand (easy to mistake bleach for detergent in Spanish for example). Maybe auto translation of all textual content and even pictures could be part of your app as well.
For this particular scenario though, I've found that both hosts and guests responded far better to simplicity: a familiar UX (images/text) with a nice UI. Now that AI has become mainstream, adding this to search was also received well. Funnily enough, most of the past six months was spent culling features and streamlining/abstracting choices. The AI actually started out as multimodal and was reduced to text-only over time.
What I've learned from users is that a guidebook is non-critical until it is. When a guest can't figure out how the microwave works, they don't want to download an app, learn a new behaviour, and so on. They just want an answer as quickly as possible - from the host, or from a simple guidebook.
It's not so different from the host's perspective. Their focus is hosting, not creating the perfect resource. I added templates and "AI onboarding" (i.e. write a prompt / dump existing info as unstructured text) which people seemed to like. Turns out blank canvas syndrome is very real here as well. The AI organises existing info, creates placeholders for what's missing, and adds suggestions of what could be included.
When the guidebook fails to answer a question, it's logged so that the host can update it directly from the UI.
Completely agree with translation - it's on the list!
From the screenshot/device mocks on your site, I was under the impression that you were making an app for both host and guests to use. There's no 'browser chrome' visible in those pictures.
Could clarify that your app generates a site, or make that apparent from the screenshots.
https://github.com/Enigma-52/SnapSense
This was solely built after opening the wrong 'Screenshot 2026-06-03 at 6.09.28 PM.png' for the 4th time :|
https://tailstats.com - display data on almost any device (ios,android,macos).I've build this for myself so I don't have to build dashboards or mini-one-purpose-apps and clog menubar/workspace. It also works with AI agents via API and MCP so agents can create interactive cards.
Supports - Postgres - DynamoDB - Clickhouse - Redis
Primary idea is to evolve from SQL client to a Database Client, where users would be able to host queries, share queries and the work remains auditable.
Previously it was an SQL client, a PopSQL alternative. But I am trying to re-work the architecture so that it can support more databases, and services (query-as-service, query-as-reporting-job, etc).
It's mostly "public" data, but incumbent data vendors charge $90k+ for this data because it has to be acquired and aggregated from 3200+ US counties. This is a lot of work if you aren't using LLMs and agents to do much of the work for you.
I'm trying to make quality parcel data more accessible to everyone.
A CSS/TS React component library inspired by BeOS. Been spending the last week cutting my teeth on font issues however
The age of AI has been incredible for the daily game space because you can play around with ideas so much faster and riff to find something that works. On the flip side, there’s a lot more games that just rip off another idea and change some mechanic slightly to make it “new”
It’s an AI-powered mock technical interviewing platform, for system design and coding.
I’m also working now on behavioral mocks, with a coach feature!
I’ve been working on it on and off for a year, but started spending significant time in the last few months.
I know everyone’s burnt out on LLM products, but I think it’s nice for this kind of prep since you can do it on demand and in an environment it’s safe to fail as much as you need without judgement so you can actually learn.
It’s early and free if anyone is interested in trying it out (at least while I can afford to serve it for free)
[0] https://rookhelm.com/
It's like a BuiltWith for Government. I am tracking all UK government spend and building a picture of software and rising/falling trends of various products in the government.
I worked as a government supplier and found it hard to find out what tech/solutions are in place without inside knowledge. My idea is that by opening the data, I can help more suppliers compete and foster innovation.
Fortunately I think I've been bailed out by agentic coding the last couple months from a product perspective but I think the major gains so far have been due to marketing and exploring alternative growth channels. Even so, keeping momentum is never a given and requires constant output from all angles! Onward...
[0] https://www.zigpoll.com
Startups should be able to deploy their own SOC2 compliance ready databases without paying cloud providers to do the deployment for them.
Why pay $1050/month on AWS RDS when a Herzner dedicated server costs $55 a month and offers more resources?
it is relatively new and untested irl, but interesting as gleam is very nice for fhir in some ways:
-fhir choice types imo were originally designed for some kind of object oriented polymorphism, but are nicer as sum types
-cardinality works nicely with Option for 0..1 and List for 0..*, the only ugly part is if you need primitive extensions and suddenly there are a ton of Option fields
-works with whatever http client you need for erlang or js target, meaning can use on server or in browser
hl7v2 is much uglier than fhir but commonly used eg by state immunization registries, so I am considering gleam types that have message/segment structure, but leave each field as String (as opposed to gleam fhir which uses Bool or whatever for primitive types)
after that not sure some kind of gpl toy emr probably a stripped down version of openemr that uses gleam/lustre and a fhir server instead of php, but this is definitely the mysterious step 3 ??? as there are a lot of features and integrations that take a lot of work or use different formats (hl7v2, ccda...)
I lost a lot of weight on GLP-1s, and on top of that my tastes changed. Instead of IPAs, I like cocktails now, and the transition made me feel like my own internal clock was out of whack.
Also, also: these hard seltzers are totally crushable, waayyyy too easy to drink fast. So this app helps with that, too.
- lazyslurm: A TUI tool for managing/viewing slurm / HPC setups. Similar to lazygit or lazydocker (https://github.com/hill/lazyslurm)
https://logdot.io
So I started a new side project: decompilation of my cherished childhood video games. Many Mega Man games, starting with Mega Man Battle Network 2.
I just finished polishing and verifying the early initialization routines, and have already traced various parts of the game's engine. I was surprised to discover that it was a huge state machine of sorts. I want to focus on reverse engineering the saving system so I can write a save editor, and the music system so I can listen to the music.
For now, I have 8 apps and I'd be grateful if any of you could give me your impressions.
I'd be happy too if any of them could be helpful for you.
https://dailypocketapps.com
I work mainly with law firms, there are some potential examples on my website if you're curious: https://fractional-engineer.com/sms-intake.
Happy to chat more.
I’ve set up a few 10DLC campaigns as well, it’s a little finicky and takes time but something I can do pretty predictably.
Have made it agent friendly enough that my teammates' agents can read and drop commennts on specs/storyboards etc, and my agent can close the loop by iterating with a new artifact version.
Have now the core done and working on a MVP UI to validate it.
One of the things I always wish to do properly was to model currency and unit of measure in full as core types, plus truly trace everything related to the business transaction from production to beyond the sale.
Looking into a persistent workflow engine like `temporal` now...
P.D: I'm debating if open source or not, in light of the AI-pocalypse...
This is basically my version of "what all could you throw into Postgres?"
My problem with vibe coding/LLM assisted engineering is that it's hard to get the basic stuff that is independent of the application itself, correct, so I just use this and make sure everything I build has some consistency.
You can pop this in and use it as the base for your app and add login, permissions, etc. quite cleanly.
https://ALovelyQuestion.com
We create a plan for your marriage proposal. I'm working with an event planner to create this!
https://GetSetReply.com
This does review aggregation for businesses, and then a bunch of tools to help you gain insights, respond to reviews, and get more reviews. I just hired my first Sales/Marketing person to scale.
I will create coupon codes for anyone interested! Email is in my bio
Last week I interviewed non-technical people about their experience with AI agents. Many couldn't even use them at all. Either they didn't want to share private data with ChatGPT or company policy prohibited it.
For those of you working with sensitive files – contracts, client records, financials, HR docs – I'd love to hear how you handle this today: simone [at] breadboards.io
https://github.com/DefrimBinakaj/WallMod
Give me feature suggestions!
I also asked Claude to build a photo gallery for me https://places.pascalspoerri.ch (HDR, map support, similar images)
· OS native sandbox (<4ms start-time) · Policies for AWS, local files, k8s, DBs etc. · Rego backed policies w/ OPA (CNCF Graduated project) · Fastest policy evaluator (<3ms)
Please star the repo if you like the work.
Version 2 is a significant upgrade, and is a bottom-to-top rewrite of both the backend server, and frontend app.
I’ve been using an LLM extensively, and it’s been a huge help. I have, however, also run into its limitations.
[1] https://github.com/riccione/glintindex
It’s designed to go beyond static filters to actively research, compare listings, analyze photos, watch listings, setup notifications etc... - basically an "OpenClaw for real estate."
[1]: https://mlsync.io
I used to build hardware projects, write code but lately been coasting
I got sick of choosing between the efficiency of working in a terminal and the magic powers of using AI (and of copy-pasting between the two). So I created a hybrid: Terminai is a transparent wrapper for any terminal that provides on-demand access to a TUI coding agent of your choice just a hotkey away (with built-in MCP and CLI that gives the AI access to your terminal).
One day I will make a game.
So about to release an iOS app that sends me early notifications about what to actually prepare, or do.
Best examples so far: on my last trip it pinged me the night before with a packing list based on the weather at my destination. Also reminding me to book a table for a dinner planned.
It's here for the waiting list: https://heylife.ai
OrcaBot was my Jan+Feb attempt to defeat the lethal trifecta whilst offering all the bells and whistles of a claw like sandbox: https://orcabot.com/blog#breaking-the-lethal-trifecta
This month I've been working on the free desktop version which is available as of today but probably carries a few too many bugs to not be worth promoting just yet.
I have not yet figured out a way to live reload the dashboard itself after a feature addition or a bug fix. :-(
I just don't use AI building it. It actually brings me joy amidst all these AI news and updates.
Also working on https://wk-pool.com to further develop it for not only World Cup predictions, but aiming to compete with Scorito in two years!
Last month however I decided to go back to the idea and give it a shot. Right now I'm in the process of scraping and building a huge index. The technical challenges have been plenty. But I should be ready to publish an alpha version by end of month or so.
Vibe coded with my brother (he did most of the work) firmware for the X4 e-reader to turn it into a word processor and flashcard app
https://www.nextperf.dev/
There's competition in the other TCGs, and of course a 2-sided marketplace is one of the hardest things to seed. So this is mostly just a project that I can put any fresh ideas into that I wouldn't be able to at my dayjob.
(SignalSeek watches the subreddits your buyers already hang out in, scores what it finds, and tells you if the demand is real enough to build on. When it is, it drafts the replies so you can jump into the conversation right away)
But there is so many things to do, more projects i work on this month at https://www.craftengineer.com/projects/
And, as always, working on my main self-hosted analytics platform: https://www.uxwizz.com/
Sharable, real-time synced maps, Google Docs for maps basically.
I think the coolest part is the import feature where you can paste a link to a video or article and it pulls out places and enriches them with images and a description. You can also write your own notes, vote on places to go with friends, and apply colors. Right now I am working on user acquisition and experimenting with different marketing approaches.
Currently doing final polishes on adding support for making it simple and easy to run agents and review the code remotely over ssh.
https://getbaton.dev
The core of the whole thing is a generic experimentation framework that allows for easy comparison of approaches along with synthetic charging session generation.
I’m then using the to compare linear optimisation to a reinforcement learning approach, and seeing the effects of modelling power efficiency etc.
We're extending the Web Preview: https://tritium.legal/preview to be embeddable as a WASM bundle for folks on platforms that need a document editor.
The main point is adding relationships between the entries, as that's the bread and butter of Obsidian.
[1]: https://0xff.nu/hajime/
https://github.com/tenuo-ai/claude-governance
https://housepricedashboard.co.uk
A TUI to control a crazyflie nano drone. This is mostly a rust learning project - but insanely fun because it leads to something flying through my living room.
https://github.com/yannick-cw/crazyflie-commander
"Why is Zoom lagging?"
"Is the issue my WiFi?"
"What's going on with the Internet?"
So, I built a local Mac utility that runs in the menubar to give at-a-glance visibility into live network and application issues. It's free (for typical uses), battery-efficient, and gives fast and reliable answers.
https://breakdown.live/
Salahmate (https://salahmate.app) - A mobile app that helps Muslims build the habit of praying gently.
I’m currently migrating the codebase to Swift 6 and dealing with the new concurrency system.
https://gitlab.com/brlewis/solve-debate
Perhaps the coolest feature is it is fully native, and yet still runs on web, windows, macOS, iOS, and android due to a shared core and platform native ui layer.
It's called TinyToT: https://github.com/guilt/TinyToT
You basically get a LLM without any training/RL here.
See: https://x.com/i/status/2076344798525460581
[1]: https://artifacta.io
[2]: https://docs.artifacta.io/introduction
I'd love to hear from anyone else doing work in this area!
I launched beta last month with a couple of customers in pilot phase. It has been great learning experiencing building my first AI agent tool and running it in production.
I'd consider a different name to avoid issues with supabase should you take off.
My tech stack consists of: - Ruby on Rails - Vue.js + Inertia.js - PostgreSQL - TailwindCSS with Shadcn Vue UI
the app runs on Hetzner VM deployed via Kamal.
I'm planning to do a detailed blog post on the tech stack soon.
I found initial customers by manual outreach within my network.
I don't see any potential issue with Supabase. Both names are drastically different and we serve different markets. Besides, there are plenty of other products name with "supa" prefix.
Are you using any of the major agentic frameworks (Mastra, LangSmith etc)? Or is the AI harness etc entirely custom-built?
This looks really nice. Snippet from site:
chat = Chat.create! model: "claude-sonnet-4"
chat.ask "What's in this file?", with: "report.pdf"
With all the supply chain attacks on OSS ecosystems targeting developers, PMG is a practical protection using a combination of threat intel, policy and sandbox.
It’s a package firewall on the terminal really. It has been surprisingly effective against most of the recent attacks.
https://github.com/keloran/tiny-dfr
Unfortunately due to the way GitHub defaults to creating prs in the parent fork, I have accidentally created a few invalid prs in asahi before I was ready, and now am banned from creating a good upstream one
Built in Swift, SwiftUI for the iOS app and Python for the backend.
https://epilude.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538174
After adding X11, SDL and GDI backends, now I'm working on a native Wayland support (for now, running through the SDL backend works on Weston).
Open Source Invoicing: https://ziglag.com
Better agent-first framework: https://stk.dev
https://www.agenticcodingweekly.com/
In summary, I pull public motion votings and do any kind of processing I want to give people a better insight in how the Dutch parties vote. There's a voting compass that gets a bit busy before elections.
It was a project by Erwin and I would like to continue the work.
I'm looking at the long-term image and have high hopes other countries would enjoy this too
A News Platform aggregator collecting sources of information across the internet (socials, newswires, etc.) and trying to push context to humans in a more digestible form. We are also experimenting with defining lineage of information using AI to help people try to piece the puzzle together as information flows in.
A web framework for Golang that has support for inertia as well as an opinionated set of tools which an agent friendly CLI.
Just released v1.0.0 last week and getting a few QOL features in now!
Compute differences between dates, times, durations and timezones
Underlying CLI and Go library: https://github.com/jftuga/DateTimeMate
https://game-pick.eu
A game programming language that makes your game multiplayer automatically. This month I’ve been developing the tutorials so it’s easier to learn.
All free and open source: https://github.com/DumbMachine/cloud-doctor
https://github.com/johnsutor/so101-nexus
This is an open source tool to run background coding agents + dev environment in isolated VMs. So far it has allowed me to migrate a majority of long running coding sessions to my homelab to run remotely. I can also run multiple in parallel without worrying about race conditions or my host machine breaking.
Free, open-source and drop-in replacement for Studio-3T. All the featured behind Studio-3T subscription for free in OzenDB.
Released beta version recently. Feel free to check out. Will be glad for feedback)
I've spent 8 years working on RISC-V VMs for blockchains, recently also contributing to ZK VMs. Modern blockchain VMs are drastically more powerful, and I'm curious how far we can push them. I started porting real game logic to blockchain VMs, running game loop, physics simulation, collision detection, etc., on blockchain VMs. So far I have:
* Teeworlds to CKB-VM: https://xuejie.space/2026_06_16_teeworlds_on_ckb/
* One Hour One Life to CKB-VM: https://xuejie.space/2026_06_29_porting_one_hour_one_life_ga...
* A small ray tracer to Jolt ZK VM: https://xuejie.space/2026_07_10_cpp_ray_tracer_on_jolt_zk_vm...
Source is available for 2 of the 3, I need to clean up the OHOL one.
Some context: CKB-VM [1] is a RISC-V virtual machine I designed for Nervos starting in 2018. Jolt ZK VM [2] is a zero-knowledge virtual machine developed by a16z. Both execute RISC-V code, but due to different design, Jolt ZK VM is a much faster CPU than CKB-VM.
Technically this is a fun challenge. Many techniques I used resemble game development tricks from the 90s on game consoles: fixed point math, banked memory in ROMs, aggressively inlining tricks, etc. I want to push to see where the ceiling is. Right now I'm trying to get a Godot [3] + JoltPhysics [4] game loop running on Jolt ZK VM.
Happy to answer questions about the VM internals, the porting process, or anything in general.
[1] https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb-vm
[2] https://jolt.a16zcrypto.com/
[3] https://godotengine.org/
[4] https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics
https://www.chaingenius.ai
The goal is to find on-chain structural anomalies, as well as seeing if clustering by behavior has emergent semantic properties
Based on an early prototype that helped me find our current house.
The first game I'm building is the card game Phase 10, and I'm done with phases 1-7. After that, I'd like to build Carcassonne, and maybe Jeopardy.
Most recently, adding SID support, and adding timing information to the emulated formats that don’t have any tagged song duration (e.g., converting NSF to NSFE). This means playing the songs one by one and watching for repeated sequences of writes to the sound chip registers.
https://github.com/adammfrank/sql-practice
https://coderscreen.com/
A curated job board for DevOps, SRE, and Observability (o11y) jobs.
Working to become the specialist jobs board for infrastructure jobs.
It’s an app to track wins and celebrate yourself
https://myhypedoc.com
At the moment it is launched for Nigeria, as a chatbot for the MVP. - www.isabilaw.com
It will spin off to two product offering that will solve Legal and Compliance issues in West Africa
Right now it copes with important open source libraries on the model of clang-format's configuration, which is a real trick given the partial elaboration you need (with backtracking). But that works.
mathlib4 is the final boss, I don't currently even have a plan without per-directory quirks files which is probably a nonstarter.
I follow a bunch of gaming rss feeds just to keep up with what’s new in the industry. Figured I’d take those and turn them into a news aggregator to put them all into one place. Threw in some game deals/affiliate to pay the web hosting bills (hasn’t paid for anything yet, lol).
There are some solutions already out there but most are either slow, resource intensive, or both. Especially for larger fleets of robots. I'm using it to learn more about VDA5050, Rust and wgpu.
It's like lovable but much more affordable. Built on Cloudflare + Hetzner. Still in beta.
It's a calculator for what an AI feature costs to serve. Cost per request, cost per month, which part of the bill is eating you (output tokens, usually). No signup, all the math is on the page. Any feedback is welcome.
Go check it out : https://www.orbicyn.com
Available at https://whynotlog.com and promo code HACKERNEWS gives access to the pro plan for six months.
https://github.com/inceptionstack/lowkey
Search is currently provided by the Radio Browser API, but I'm now building my own station API with proper metadata and thumbnail coverage. A station discovery page with most played stations is also in the making.
Taking a bit of a detour with self-hosting the language, now that the syntactic surface, standard library, and initial dependency strategy are on a decent footing.
With any luck, by the end of the week, I'll start prepping for a 0.0.1 release.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700782
Will propose a patch back to llama.cpp or provide it as a fork.
https://jiracule.zachmanson.com
https://github.com/zachpmanson/jiracule
I can start a remote tmux session from my laptop, close the lid, grab my airpods and continue on the same sessions while in a gym or a bicycle.
Planning to open source it soon.
https://festudio.net/scrolless/
Kudos to you for building this.
I'm on GrapheneOS now, (way better than iOS btw) so I can't try it out but I prefer not to use social media on phones at all.
I quit youtube for a few months, now I'm back on it mildly with dearrow, sponsorblock, unhook and no account.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
A website that tells you how "weird" the weather has been in a specific location
Weird being the percentile difference to the weather since the year 2000
https://andremourao.com/weirdther/
https://github.com/patrickjh/ssa
[1] https://humm.so/
https://clipcut.dev
Was using this only for my self, but i think it might be interesting for other people as well.
https://getintentengine.com
https://wordbattle.fun
Have fun!
https://azriel.im/disposition/
Things I missed in original graphviz dot:
1. predictable / stable layout
2. dark and light mode css (tailwind)
3. interactive through pure css
4. markdown descriptions
Took ages understanding how to route edges to not overlap labels.
Written by Codex with me driving product direction, reviewing, testing, occasionally scolding, and handling the release process.
Accepted onto the Mac App Store last week.
Space - Jump / E - Attack
Curious if it works on your browser.
main.js:145 Myth browser startup failed Error: WebGPU adapter was not available. at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9) at async main.js:61:3 (anonymous) @ main.js:145 main.js:146 Error: WebGPU adapter was not available. at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9) at async main.js:61:3
It is build using a model that can classify messages (ham/spam/marketing), packaged for Apple Mail but could be used in other places.
As that DDoS was going on I realized that some of our dev and staging processes were impacted by it, and that apt-cacher-ng was doing nothing to help us.
apt-cacher-ultra snapshots the repo meta-data after verifying it, and only promotes it if the metadata all checks out. Additionally, it can optionally keep a list of "hot" packages, and can include those in the snapshot calculation.
Additionally, apt-cacher-ng would regularly choke and require some handholding. I'm hoping -ultra resolves that as well.
https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra
Distinctive business essays, written daily. I'm working to help us all see the world more profitably.
So I hacked on https://inputbuffer.io and just opened it to a wider audience.
You hook up your user feedback source (via widget or API) and it will organize everything by content category (e.g. billing) or target (e.g. a specific page, API endpoint, CLI command etc).
Categorization isn't rigid, InputBuffer does its best to put feedback where it belongs and gives you a clear triage flow if you want the added control.
Once organized you can learn more via a quick analytics dashboard or by interrogating the data directly, chatting with InputBuffer to gain a stronger understanding of your product, with clear citations to all feedback.
I have had success on both small and large amounts of input, on traditional SaaS platforms, developer tools, open source projects and more.
Next up: automatically gathering user input from other platforms (like GitHub issues), and more research tools.
This doesn't work in simultaneous-move settings like Orbit Wars (or order-book markets), converging to an exploitable pure strategy rather than a Nash equilibrium.
LeCun's JEPA, by contrast, is a learned neural world model, which lacks the determinism, speed, and debuggability of a code-based simulator. Thus, it can drift or predict illegal states, and you can't inspect why it made a prediction the way you can trace a Python function.
TL;DR: The benefit is better auditability and easier RL-like training. The SM-MCTS extension fixes the first problem (decoupled UCB per player approximates Nash equilibrium instead of a pure strategy) while keeping the second advantage intact (a deterministic, inspectable code simulator).
https://github.com/ternary-ai/ow-code-world-model https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/a-self-improving-code-world-...
Building a typing application that helps you quickly learn and improve your typing.
We believe everyone can type at 80wpm or more. It just takes a good tool and a couple months of consistent practice
i make the microsoft word but less sucks, and there is scientific calculator integrated and also ai on it too, available on linux (stable) and windous (unstable).
There are many like it. This one is ours.
Open to feedback and missing pieces.
I talked more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881942
No code to show yet. I'm taking the time it requires.
We just launched a couple weeks ago and we’d love any feedback or suggestions!
Designing a new DSL (Chord) that compiles to Sharpee (Typescript).
https://sharpee.plover.net/
https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive
[0] https://github.com/adam-s/goldseam
I continue to grow my main product BoltAI[1]
[0]: https://inka.page
[1]: https://boltai.com
It's a coding harness that eschews autonomy and instead works like a pair programming partner, with distinct "driver" and "navigator" modes. I've only spent 3 weekends on it so far, so it's a long way from finished. But I am at least using opair to work on opair now, which is nice.
I didn't really want to write a harness, I just got frustrated enough that nobody else was writing the harness I actually want to use. I'll probably be the only person that uses this, but I'm fine with that.
You can put your face on the screen in real time, record, stream, even annotate live, add text, draw, show touch indicators.
Pretty neat!
https://demoscope.app
https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus
https://narada.koley.in https://gaurav.koley.in/2026/building-browser-for-agents
The point is to increase the signal to noise ratio, by having a community rating system.
https://digger.so/o
https://nommer.ai
Load all of your project's documentation links, local development browser tools (database viewers, etc.) into a set of views that can be source controlled with the project. Don't force people to use their daily driver browsers for this, or hack side-by-side views together with their OS window managers. Zen and friends have split panes, but it's not the robust tab/panel system that I wanted.
There is a simple tab widget system, which so far has:
- Viewport manager: basically 1:1 with what is in Chrome devtools
- Session manager: create and manage browser sessions as a first-class entity, and attach/detach tabs to these sessions. Includes a simple "incognito" toggle as well.
- System light/dark override: stop flipping this on/off for your whole OS to test "system" light/dark mode (tedious)
- Reload trigger: pick a target tab. if that tab reloads, so does this one.
- Log file viewer: if the tab source is a local file, change the tab's view to a structured log file parser with search/filter, play/pause, etc.
- Screenshot/Video capture: not built yet. pretty self explanatory.
Great keyboard controls are a hard requirement for me. It's a little tricky since content in web views can capture this too, so I have a global "nav mode toggle" you enter to move around between panes and the tabs within them. Actively figuring out the correct UX, but I am liking what I have so far.
Toying with the idea of a "tab link" which allows you to store a set of "source" tabs in a view, but create "links" in other views, where the navigation is synced across all instances. Useful if you want to have, say, the Tailwind docs open to a specific page, but have that page shared across different views. For example, if you want to have one view specifically for mobile view work and another for desktop view work, and not have to manually navigate to the same Tailwind docs page in both views.
I'm honestly just using it as I work on another real project, and adding features as I think "hey wouldn't this be nice?" Which is a pretty fun and satisfying process. I don't have it published yet, because I'm not entirely sure if it's worth sharing at the moment, but I feel like I'll discover that along the way here and go from there. Maybe someone here will chime in :P
https://easyinvoicepdf.com https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf
Realize that I'm really bad at marketing. Trying to work on it.
It lets you take a picture of video games and shows price comparisons for the major buy lists.
https://logicaffeine.com/benchmarks
https://sarah-robin.com/grass
A platform to automate generation, distribution and management of verifiable E-Certificates for event organizers.
https://aidekin.com
https://github.com/stfurkan/aidekin
Had the recipe optimized by GPT 5.6, lets see.
A data layer to connect everything with everything
https://httpstate.com
wafertown (few days old!)
World's first LLMORPG. You craft a prompt and it goes to live in wafertown and interact with other players (I mean prompts), you can change your prompt once per day, then next day you get news about what you did there!
Super early, everything is manual rn, I'm automating stuff including sign ups, if you want to join shoot me an email!
https://wafertown.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4069810/VERDURE/
high total customer face to face time// high face to face time per customer// probably not in sales
as these are too abstract to map cleanly to traditional job board filters I’m scraping indeed and using deepseek to classify jobs according to this criteria, with an aim to discover really good jobs and then put a lot of effort into each of those jobs, like reaching out to hiring teams directly etc. works alright but worried coverage is an issue.
ps- can any one recommend a service or product that does this already? i should be able to set a city and then write my own filters like "this job involves dressing up like a crocodile" or "this job requires ballet dancer experience" and have each job posted in my city get assessed. maybe i get an email each day of matched and not matched jobs. i have tried to search myself but given there is so so so much slop in this space i find it very hard going. and most products do this just very poorly...
Dealing with UHD camera data, and synced feed switching issues (SDI has so many lame issues.)
>Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
A resilient solution to 99.998% of e-mail spam.
https://securitybot.dev
Since the last update, I released everything that had been in testing since April, like gallery view, custom avatars, birthdays and, most importantly – autofill from link.
Now I'm preparing for a big launch – working on the landing page, SEO and onboarding experience. Here's what I've done so far:
1. I updated the landing page to actually tell users about the app and look presentable. I already see a big improvement in conversion
2. I added SEO crap to the landing page. This is painful for me, but sadly that's how Google Search works (it doesn't). It's paying off, too
3. I overhauled the onboarding experience, to make it smoother for new users
Two more features are still in testing; I plan to ship them before the release, but currently i'm not completely happy about them.
https://www.givedirection.com/advanced.html
https://github.com/lodenrogue/hith
the other day I also vibe-coded a recreation of digglabs , its shows HN, reddit ect using different visualisations
https://topaztee.com/digglabs
https://wordtrak.com/daily
devtool to validate readme for human and ai use, ships working tutorial from your readme.
If any HR/Recruiters are in this thread (a long shot), please share feedback in exchange of free trial.
Loads of useful things in the pipeline: multi connection support, native library, extensions and many more ideas.
https://www.smolmachines.com
I am building it on top of a new primitive called smolvm: a hybrid that combines isolation of VM with speed and flexibility of containers.
https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
It's opensource and more modern.
However, LLM coding has made coding less rewarding so… Im thinking about starting a new hobby as coding for fun has become prompting.
The core idea was that I've always been a lousy notetaker, even going back to my school days years ago. I'm great at one-off and one-liner notes and occasionally more in-depth notes, but tend to not flesh them out fully enough to make them worth re-visiting.
This has been a struggle even as an engineer sitting in meetings or trying to absorb new information when starting a new job and ramping up.
Logbook is meant to use an interaction paradigm we as engineers are using very often these days: it's a terminal UI in the vein of Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.
It's targeted at the entry of free-flowing thoughts but you can also write longer notes by launching your default shell editor from within the tool.
Each note is saved as markdown with some metadata and that metadata is then saved to a local SQLite DB.
For the LLM side, the tool extracts useful metadata from those notes and then performs some local ranking/categorization. It then has the ability to send a note or some metadata to a provider of your choosing (it's straightforward to use OpenAI or something more broad and customizable like OpenRouter) for further enrichment or filtering.
A couple examples of the currently implemented slash-commands: `/related` can be used to find related notes; say you've been scribbling down notes about OAuth or MCP servers and want to gather up the most relevant notes to one of those topics. Or you can use a `/gaps` command that'll help you find things you've taken notes about but without properly defining or providing context around them (i.e. you mention ID-JAG for OAuth but never actually say what ID-JAG is, this command will tell you this so you have a chance to review what you previously wrote and can then define exactly what that keyword is about).
It's still very much a work in progress. It's not meant to be a full-fledged note-taking app a la Obsidian or anything like that. I've just always preferred taking notes in markdown or plain text and this is a great way to continue doing that while also making enrichment of the notes pretty simple.
You may ask "why not just use agent memories?" I don't really like the idea of tightly coupling notes with codebases or agents and I don't find the current UX very intuitive at least for the way I prefer to take notes.
[0] - https://github.com/joshwertheim/logbook/
https://quantra.io/
https://trystero.dev
https://kiwilang.com
https://github.com/kiwi-array-lang/kiwi
primitives are accelerated on CPU by SIMD
supports GPUs via Apple MLX
https://makespell.com
secure and hide your files in plain sight.
https://raygum.com
https://makespell.com
It's been quite fun building this as this solves my exact problem, but trying to find an audience for a product is a completely different game
agents have their own email and phone number and get a logged in browser instances on demand.
Just before the weekend I shipped a new mini-game called Pop It: Desert Island (https://gamingcouch.com/blog/pop-it-desert-island-launch). Launch went well: ~3,800 players from 56 countries over the weekend, and it immediately became the most played game on the platform.
It's a battle royale with an ocean/beach themed world, taking inspiration from Roblox, Mario Kart and others. The whole game is built in JavaScript (three.js for the 3D world) using a JS SDK I've been working on. It doubled as a test drive of the same SDK I want to launch for third-party developers, so anyone can build and ship a simple, fun multiplayer party game for the platform, ideally in a single weekend.
If you're a game dev, or aspiring to be one, and want to develop and ship your own party game check out this page https://gamingcouch.com/developers
The TL;DR of Gaming Couch:
- Free Early Access with +20 competitive mini-games.
- Players use their phones as controllers (gamepads work too).
- Completely web-based, no downloads or installs needed.
- Every game supports up to 8 players and is action-based, with quick ~1 minute rounds to keep a good pace. No language-based trivia or asynchronous (turn based) games.
it uses https://sprites.dev/ sandboxes to run agents
maroatlas.com
I've found Astro to be an amazing framework for simple, performant websites. It stays really close to basic HTML and CSS while adding useful features such as scoped components, layouts, and easy Markdown blog integration.
So I have been using it to build websites. But many things keep repeating with every website I build, so I began working on this project to create a base that I can use for every new web project.
It references content from my Clean Web Development Guide: http://webdev.bryanhogan.com/
When it is far enough along, I will use it for the landing page of the app I'm working on: a customizable solution for self-tracking including habits, health and journaling, or whatever else you need: https://dailyselftrack.com/
After more than 400 days of traveling around Korea, Macau, Mainland China, Japan and Australia, I'm now returning to Germany / Europe looking for work. I wrote about that in my monthly mail-letter: https://bryanhogan.com/follow
think ai is yolo sudo admin within the sandboxed linux
and internally/external you can control the whole computer via mcp, too
basically logistics and fleet management for a trucking company that does cargo and passengers, set in a zombie outbreak with events that can happen during a job that affect the outcome. This all happens in real-time, the length of a job is calculated based on the distance between the departure and destination points and soon drivers needing rest will be a factor. I'm a big fan of microgames/timed games where rather than sitting down for a play session the gameplay loop involves just occasionally checking up on the status of some things that are happening in the background
Ask the same engine the same question twice and you get different answers, different citations, sometimes a different opinion of your brand, so figuring out how best to present this has been a fun product problem to solve.
It also tries not to be yet another dashboard: instead of just analytics, an agent turns the findings into a ranked list of "ship this fix" todo items.
- a yet another static site generator (yaml, jinja2)
- a microcontroller for a hardware project (arduino)
- enhancements and reports for a desktop application (python)
www.memoryplugin.com
I see a lot of new (and, to be frank, a lot of mature ones) HR tools are just wrapping Chatgpt around resumes (almost like "OK, now match this resume against this job posting and tell me if applicant fits"), which introduces a massive bias/inference problem.
I decided to build the exact opposite – a deterministic, math-driven fitness engine. It extracts structured scorecards from both CVs and job requirements and mathematically matches them, so you can actually review the exact reasoning behind why a candidate scored a, say, 85%. This fitness value is specified at every interview step – as applicant goes through an interview process their scorecard is updated at all steps.
If anyone here builds in the HR space, I’d love your feedback.
When an HR is using Hiring Method, they are getting a fitness score for all applicants.
In case a backend engineer is seeking frontend roles – yes, the fitness will be low – but it will neither be zero nor will anyone be rejected anyhow automatically. HR will have an option to compare applicants visually and in detailed mode at all times.
I am building Hiring Method to augment people, not to remove them from decision making process.
https://easywed.app
https://www.tirreno.com
Using UEFI SecureBoot + vTPM for cloud root-of-trust, a stack to prove what's released on github/gitlab is what's actually running on GCP/EC2 (and soon Azure & AliYun).
I was annoyed that so many companies in the Web3 space would do the on-chain theater of verified contracts and "audits" then 99% of their infra would be deployed on EC2 (or god forbid Vercel) in full un-ironic "Trust Me Bro" mode.
It's a different trust model from SGX/TDX, more pragmatic and hopefully easier/cheaper. Currently polishing off "Docker to verifiable cloud VM" stuff, and then gVisor support next.
Currently removing the paywall from all my stories. If I have missed one, let me know.
https://threechaptersofscifi.substack.com/
https://easywed.app
2.Secure Data Structures, Algorithms, Allocators, Thread Pools and Document parsing in C17. Repo : https://github.com/corporatepiyush/secure-c-lib
3. a coding agent that is cheaper, faster, more predictable, and dramatically more capable out of the box — because 584 of its 606 tools never touch a model at all. Repo : https://github.com/corporatepiyush/yantra-coding-agent
planning on postin ga show hn this week.
Hoping to put out a project by end of year
There were a lot of complications post delivery, and I want to make some sort of interactive story about it. We'll see how it goes
(Everyone is safe and sound)
The code might be slop, but it saves me time extracting information from long-form videos that would require 20-60 minutes of my time otherwise.
Also I get to not feed the algorithm just for the sake of curiosity.
I tend to print a lot of stuff to read while disconnected. This is a tool to help squeeze as much content onto a printed page as possible instead of printing 4 or more pages per sheet.
A good use of Claude slop I'd argue. Currently trying to figure out how to set up the site so that an LLM tasked with printing content through it can figure out how to use it in the best way.
I continue to take photos with film, developing and scanning at home.
Started of manually, later stages I used AI for implementing similar pages, and then for reviewing my own code.
(It was also an excuse to work with Nuxt / Nuxt UI as I loved the development of those projects and wanted to implement something with it.)
After some time I figured the best use of AI is to produce even more AI-related slop and spend my occasional 2 dollars on the deep seek model to do it.
Models are fun when given a stable identity and made aware of it.
https://jims-bbs.com/bbs/
If you want to join in and post, you'll need a code for the registration process. The code ...
yc2026
...should work for a while.
We have been building https://merrilin.ai for 6 months now. Open to public access right now.
I've also replaced Linear with a local sqlite-backed tool, added tooling to speed up code nav, and am building "no-slop", a tool for enforcing architectural guidelines on vibe-coded projects.
https://bejewelled-meerkat-91d099.netlify.app/
<Http://punditron.com/>
A slop machine, what's that??
*my feeling are very hurt that this link won't hotlink
Super excited to see how many tokens this will manage to burn per minute!!
Future feature is estimating quarterly taxes and showing approximately how much should be paid each quarter if any and due dates.
A free, local-first desktop app for worldbuilding and running tabletop RPGs like D&D.
I've spent more than a year on this, first a website, and then migrating it to a desktop app.
https://xios.maxleiter.com
[1]: https://homocodex.com
https://doccharm.com/
If you want to give it a try, email me and I'll comp your first two months and help you get started.
C# is fine since i already know java.
- Got https://beachcomber.sh pretty much stable. Next stage is to propose to various upstreams its worth integrating. - Custom firmware for some ikea symfonisk dials because the oem firmware on them has some pretty bad bugs. Added features like hold and turn. Getting nice smooth dial behaviour over zigbee etc is surprisingly tricky - Built a skill evaluator tool that runs a skill through test suites and then tweaks the skill context and runs again. Its been pretty effective to be honest, almost all skills you do the first version is laughable compared to the one you get after this automated self improvement. - A robust tmux bridge interface for claude to hook into, and then a director layer on top of that for agent orchestration tooling - a stenographer skill that on the fly ripgrep and builds a rag on your on disk conversation history as a form of memory. Pretty effective. - I have just started a tool that brokers woodpecker ci to openbao/vault to give a gitlab like integration for controlled secrets injection for ci. - Been beating my head against a camera tool for a while now, finally making headway. Many ptz cameras dont support fov move, which nvrs need for ml object detection and tracking. They just have a super clunky continuous move and stop. So my tool characterises the camera with cv tools and calibrates movement curves to produce a data file that can be used by my onvif proxy to emulate the more advanced move commands. - Various helper tools for fusion, like csv based parameterised export, and compliant magnet insert generators. - A pipeline that consumes my content backlog, ie instagram saves, reddit saves, hn faves, etc and analyses them with local models and various algorithms steps to categorise and intuit why it was saved and what the key information is and what category it fits into for future reference etc. - A map of my city that shows live river height data with flood map overlays, contour data, predicted overland flow etc. flooding is a regular concern but theres no great resource to know whats going on. I have about 60gb of public datasets it works with. - A package manager for kicad library symbols and footprints, datasheets - skills for kicad so claude can reasonably interpret the schematic and advise on problems, check against datasheets etc. surprisingly effective. - A gcode controlled expansion board for the Carvera Air that gives you 8+8 channels of control for extraction, air assist, vacuum table, timelapse camera, etc. you only have 1 pwm pin so the protocol encodes over that. - A novel exploration interface for vitamins that renders them in a network graph, showing relationships. When you select one it rearranges around it into a kind of valance orbit style so you can explore chains of effect. Turns out, lots and lots of things relate to magnesium. - A comprehensive usb c pd board with 4s battery management. 3a or 8a depending on version. Trying to do proper pd in is nontrivial so this is a drop in solve. - A new brain pcb for Kinesis Advantage Pro keyboards to give modern firmware, bluetooth etc. - Repacked my rack UPS battery with LiFePo cells, and built an induction/resistive series battery balancer pcb for it. - Playing around with a new debug header/connector concept thats tiny footprint and zero cost to add.
The hard part is getting things over the line, publishing and seeing if theres interest. A thing can be largely done but theres a lot of detail work polishing it up so its public ready.
It's a calendar workspace that treats events as structured data rather than just blocks of time.
I built it because I was planning in Google Calendar, then manually reconstructing what actually happened in another tool during my weekly review.
Velprium adds properties such as status, tags, ratings, and notes to events, then uses them for diary and weekly review views.
It's built with Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase/Postgres, and the Google Calendar API. The trickiest parts so far have been recurring events and reliable two-way sync without polluting the original Google Calendar data.
I'm currently trying to figure out whether the clearest initial use case is "turn your calendar into a weekly review" or the broader idea of a time-based database.