alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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A mail/spam filter to flag emails whose sender's domain is less than a year old.
Built an AI podcast that reads HN for me. It's funny hearing an AI get excited about tech news. You can totally tell it's AI, but honestly that's part of the charm.
Runs a cron daily, no manual work needed. Had fun building this.
I’m building Proflect — a tool that blends goal-setting, journaling, and feedback to help people grow with more structure and insight. Just launched the landing page at https://proflect.io and would love thoughts on the concept.
working on mock data manager for playwright and react tests https://github.com/SodhanaLibrary/ftmocks-server
a browser extension for writing to the web. Link your browser to an s3 bucket and llm service:
nerdy side project which will hopefully one day become a browser-based game.
python/rust/js
feedback most most welcome!
A drone framework for managing different HW resources, similar to an operating system
Working on: A romance novel (of all things).
Designing: A new social media website.
A contracts management system for the event/entertainment industry.
I am reading blog related to AI . Thinking about to develop new AI agent.
i'm interested in procedural landscape generation, trying to create an algorithm to generate infinite terrain from a heightmap examplar, very fun and tons of research papers to read
In May I posted about Clues by Sam, a logic puzzle inspired by Murdle. It's been growing nicely, new players coming in every week. It's starting to look possible that it'd grow big enough that I could one day become a serious side hustle. So I've put all my "free time" in this for the past two months.
The levels are procedurally generated with heavy curating and additional manual tweaks. I'm also adding a narrative later to each puzzle myself. It's a rare type of puzzle, since few puzzles have means to convey any kind of narrative.
My next big additions will likely be a tutorial, and profile page where you see your results and how they compare to other players. But this being just a side thing, it's progressing really slow...
Since I had so much trouble managing my entire digital information universe [1], I decided to scratch my itch and solve it for myself and maybe others as well. Here are my ideas about my product:
- Manages the entire range of personal (and maybe business) information/content: Documents, Media, Messages (email, instant, etc.), Contacts, Bookmarks, Calendar, etc.
- Tag based, so that the question of where to put and find content is quite a bit easier to answer. Think of a set of flat folders, on one or more devices, within which the files are stored with tags attached. However, there will be some improvements on the usual implementation of tag-based systems out in the wild. Since people find navigating/browsing files more natural than searching, virtual folders will be dynamically generated to provide guided navigation. Also, entire folders can also be treated as atomic and tagged/managed as one object, useful for repositories and projects. And, heuristics (and maybe AI) will be used to automatically tag files when they are imported into the tool, greatly reducing the tedium of adding tags the first time.
- Is file based, so that all information is ultimately physically stored as individual files. This allows information to be more easily managed on a physical level: moved around, backed up, exported/imported, searched, navigated, etc. without the restrictions imposed by the opaque islands of information we have now. So in addition to docs, each email/instant message, contact, scheduled task/event, bookmark, etc. would ultimately be stored as a file, unlocking all the things you can do with files.
- Has a local web-based UI launched from a local agent, so actual file content does not usually need to move across the network and stays local, and the tool is also easily multi-platform, with consistent UI irrespective of platform.
- Provides a cloud web UI as well, that communicates with content devices through the local agent, so that content stored across multiple devices can be managed in one central location, even without direct access to those devices, team/org features can be provided. However, file content still stays local, except when shared.
- Provides tools for exporting data as file from the data islands of various apps and service, and backing up as files to cloud storage services.
My vision is a situation where I am in charge of my own data irrespective of whatever device, app, or service I use, can ensure that it is always available and will not be lost, and that I can easily navigate and search through it all to find whatever I want, no matter how scattered and massive it is.
I welcome your thoughts. What would make this work for you? Would you mostly prefer a cloud UI or a local UI? Are there any technical or market gotchas I should be aware of?
[1] Here are some of my issues with personal information management affordances of current tech, which is driving me to work on a solution:
- Our data is too bound to device and vendor islands. Can't easily move my information across Apple/Google/Whatsapp, etc accounts. Can't easily merge and de-duplicate either. I almost always somehow lose data whenever I have to move to a new phone, etc.
- Hard to own your data on many services: Discord, Slack, etc. Can't easily export, search
- Hard to have a 360 overview and handle on all your data assets and query them in consistent manner
- Files as a unit of information storage and management is very ergonomic; we shouldn't allow that concept to be buried by vendors for their own gain.
A Rheumatology tracking app.
I’m working on a name generation tool that uses 83 structured naming methods. Examples: React (Verb-based), Vue (Obsolete English), Facebook (Compound), Netflix (Portmanteau), Lyft (Creative Misspelling), Alexa (Personal First Name), etc.
I wasn’t happy with the slop generated by the overly general name generators or my own prompting/brainstorming. I went on a tangent and read the top (5) books on naming from Amazon. From there I was able to create very specific and detailed prompts which started producing consistently good names, the odd great one, and a small amount of crud.
Eventually this escalated from a large spreadsheet of detailed prompts to a side project.
Please give it a try, I’d be happy for any feedback on this early version. (I recommend the options tabs for some granular tweaking)
(The name was inspired digital music samplers where there is a lot of rapid experimentation and tweaking similar to this app)
I’m helping my dad build a dock and a walking path for his new lake.
Our staining our log home project has evolved into a replacing some logs project after demolishing the sketchy balcony that came with the house and discovering a bunch of rot.
Frankly, I'm astonished that it hadn't collapsed out from under me when I was shoveling snow off of it this past winter. Behind the ledger that tied the balcony to the house was a mess of pressure treated lumber scabbed into a cavity in the logs formed by rot, none of it well-fastened or fastened into truly sound wood.
A book about how to vibe code with Aider and openrouter.
This might be a bit off-topic, but I've been working on my drum sounds. I was pretty unhappy that snares + kickdrum ended up being really loud, so I'd turn down the drum sounds, so the hihat and cymbals also went down and couldn't compete with the guitars... Ended up splitting the drums into a bus per function, so I could control and possibly compress or effect the snare and kick separately.
Now I have wonderful crashes and hihats cutting through the guitars and bass, without the snare and kick overpowering everything. This also taught me some insights about balancing relative volume levels and/or lowering dominating buses against each other and compensating upwards on some upstream bus as necessary, which I think also improved the balance of the entire rhythm section.
Except, now I'm kind of unhappy with my kickdrum sound. Some of the bands I listen to and saw at the festival I just was on have some amazing, epic kick drum sounds. It's like a giant mountain troll hammering into the gates of a castle and - on the right PA - kicks you right in the gut, literally. We had a good laugh a few days that some dudes jacket moved with the kickdrum. My kickdrum currently sounds more like wet cardboard flopping against a wall though.
Besides that, I'm however looking at moving some of my notes on audio engineering on linux onto a blog to end up with something like Protondb at a smaller scale, as well as some of the steps and things to do to get audio plugins working on linux, what audio plugins work well, which I could not get to work. I am just realizing, I need to learn quite a bit more about wine, architectures and such to write good articles and ideas about this. But maybe that's my perfectionism speaking.
If you're reading this and are yelling "But what is the magic?", the magic is largely called yabridge. Many simpler plugins just work with that. It may not be up for professional audio engineering, but it certainly is up for home recording and dabbling around.
last six months has been turning my notes app into cursor for notes... https://grugnotes.com
The same thing I was working on last month!
Not sure yet but I want to build some Atlassian Forge apps.
Send Postcards online by circling houses on a Google Map:
I'm currently adding support for letters in addition to Postcards
Im building invoicebloom.io for digital invoicing!
The arena where prompt engineers compete to share, discover, and surface the best prompts out there.
A slide-in truck camper. It's been nearly a year and I still don't have the floor done. Truly an epic lesson in perfectionism, yak shaving, and saving time by starting with the right materials and design. I've learned a ton, but mostly in things I'll never use again. Eh, I shouldn't say that... the amount I've learned about solar power alone I'll probably use in the future to lower electric bills. But nobody really needs to know how to select weather-resistant non-foaming polystyrene-and-polycarbonate-compatible structural adhesives from an SDS, or how to build your own triple-glazed pressure-relief windows, or how to find plywood that doesn't suck. If I knew how taxing and time-consuming this project would be, I would've bought a used camper (and a bigger truck..)
www.findtap.com | The OS for Water www.podsnacks.org | An AI News Org www.waldo.community | A Privacy focused social network
A mesh network library similar to Meshtastic. It just does simple flooding, because it's meant for low packet rates over reasonably fast transports, but it has a few cool features, some of which might or might not be working at the moment.
The MQTT routing backend is fully automatic. If two nodes are connected to the same MQTT server, or within range of gateways that are, they communicate.
The web client communicates directly with MQTT, meaning you can chat and set registers on devices without having hardware.
Video and art generator netwrck dot com
Fundraising for a giant robot factory.
Currently trying diffrent languages to impent a unibomber quote generator
It has been about 4 weeks that I am only vibe coding. I am building https://github.com/brainless/SmartCrawler and it has been an interesting journey. Being an engineer I always find it easy to stay focused on development and not so much on users, marketing, story telling.
Now I am getting a lot more time to focus on creating content about my journey and sharing it. Test coverage is still pretty bad but I do not feel the generated product is worse than it would have been if I coded it with or without LLM assistance. Right now, I barely see generated code.
I've been working on semantic search for Mac for the last few weeks.
It's called SmartSearch - uses SentenceTransformers for embeddings and FAISS for fast similarity search. Best of all, it runs locally on your computer.
Why? I absolutely despise Mac's search. I want to be able to search within documents, images, pdf etc.
Github: https://github.com/neberej/smart-search/
Demo: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aed054e0-a91f-459...
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I am working on a budgeting app!
Features:
- Local. No internet connection needed.
- Manual. Every transaction is added by the user.
- One-off or arbitrarily recurring transactions.
- No lock-in. Check out your data any time.
- Arbitrary metrics to track performance.
- Hosting on the cloud for mobile access.
I've been using Google sheets + forms for the last 8 years to track my finances. It's worked well, except for minor inconveniences. This app is my answer to my own problems.
A tool to map warm intro paths to people in your extended network (ie 2nd degree). For finding paths to VCs, sales prospects, candidates, etc. Would love any feedback! www.draftboard.com
A rust port to linux of JiTouch
I'm annoyed by LLM inference speed and latency. I want my disillusionment before dinner. I'm running some experiments of RAG-analogue approaches with post-attention cache encoding, and then thinking about how distributed caches could operate to reduce the computational latency, and how interesting it is that the key-value relationship mental narrative shifts into social dynamics. There's so many fun ways to approach the topic.
A standalone BitTorrent DHT client https://github.com/delusionallogic/dht
It's pretty simple so far. I'm focused ok getting the basics right and robust, such that I can start playing around without disrupting the real network. I don't have any specific goals, I'm just sort of messing about.
One question that dropped into my lap today was who just announced 2k new Infohashes over the span of 10 minutes. That'll keep me busy for a while.
creating a small app for Mac OS 9 with the vibe coding and Retro68
polynomial commitment based zero knowledge proof system
A cute medicine reminder app called Pill Buddy. The mascot gets increasingly annoying if you haven't taken your meds.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pill-buddy-meds-tracker/id6742...
Right now I am adding mobile UI to the gethly.com platform. Which is very boring. But once that is done, I am quite excited about the next feature for the platform - paywall as a service. It's nothing new, but it is something I am looking forward to implement.
Herding cats.
I'm working on a dynamic ARM assembler for Rust. dynasm is too restrictive: it uses static register names, and iced-x86 is x86/x64 only.
It allows to define
add x1, x2, w3, sxth 2
add x2, x3, x4, lsr 8
as
...
add(X1, X2, X3).extend(ExtendMode::SXTH, 2), // yes, it is X3, not W3.
add(X2, X3, X4).shift(ShiftMode::LSR, 8),
...
Still haven't published the repo as I can't pick a cool name...
im trying to get enough context into an llm to autogenerate scaffolding for our intern to fill out the right details.
coming up with intern projects is roght difficult nowadays
An Atari 7800 emulator. The world needs another 7800 emulator I think.
working on local first, bloat free MLOps tool https://github.com/Vishal-Padia/tracely
it's still wip