I don't know how people are so smart here. You people are really so incredibly clever and driven. I've found myself in a data analyst job where we do lots of python and linux stuff. That's cool and all but I am such an exhausted and deeply demotivated person. I don't know what to do next with my career. I am largely banking on building strong passive income streams. I don't think I'm in the right job or career - but I don't know what I'd do otherwise. I am not sure I can afford to do an apprenticeship. Maybe I should speak to a psychologist.

I have been working towards building and understanding the shift in search / information retrieval.

To that end, I just did a show HN on a couple of my projects

What if google did not focus on hyper commercialisation? 10 Blue links, but sorted by how they answer your query- https://www.unlob.com

Can we answer questions with lesser hallucinations? A snippet cited answer engine which only picks links that focus on answering your query - https://www.unzoi.com

I am currently working on and beta testing an app called Malak. It is an opensource version of Visible VC/Carta/Angelist. as a previous founder, toolings to send and manage investors' updates, decks, fundraising and others were ridiculously expensive and now I have built one completely open sourced but I have an hosted cloud version.

Product live at https://malak.vc OSS source code at https://github.com/ayinke-llc/malak

Hyper-V as a Service ish?

I have a use case to have a need to provision at will hyper-v instances for others to have control over fully. I've looked into proper things for things like SCVMM and Azure local and really they do suck..

So off to build a set of automation scripts to provision hyper-v inside of hyper-v attached to S2D shares and give students admin access to them and work in teams to build things on their own.

Its going to suck... I've done this exact use case using openstack, incus, proxmox and they all kinda suck...

I need project isolation, I need freedom, I need compliance.

The compliance is where I'm stuck with hyper-v due to the powers to be....

Wish me luck!

I've been "Vibe Coding" this weekend with the vibe of a micromanaging tech lead or PM. Actually, it's not terrible if you just accept that you need to treat the AI like a year 0 engineer who is really good at googling.

I've run the project through cline and roo. Also tried Claude 3.7 and the 1M context Gemni 2.5 pro model. I'd say Gemini is less creative. But it's still good.

I can see how it is a productivity booster. Or at least it gives you the illusion of one. Really I think best part of it is just building out detailed documentation. That's really the killer app for me.

I’ve been building Velty[1] over the past year as a tool to tame my ever-growing YouTube subscriptions. It’s a web app (PWA) that lets you organize your YouTube channels and videos into folders (with sub-folders), and view all the latest videos in one chronological feed with powerful filtering/sorting.

I built it because I was frustrated with how hard it was to manage a large number of channel subscriptions using YouTube’s default interface.

https://velty.app

A reactive computational notebook with an effect system. Kinda like a "factorio for workflow processes." I want to use it to build backend pipelines or AI RAG pipelines. I'd be able to replay network effects for debugging. It is multiplayer and can be easily deployed to a server.

I'd always found web app backends to eventually need something that chained background jobs together. And inevitably, it was something bespoke without a lot of observability. It was always frustrating to maintain. And while building AI RAG pipelines, I've run into the same problems.

Working on a schema migration tool for tortoise-orm (Python async ORM)

https://github.com/tortoise/tortoise-orm/

My side project now is a websockets based dashboard that acts as a todo list for my easily distracted children in the morning. The tv remote is an lg one that can be used as a mouse, and they pop the tasks on the screen. I used chatgpt to generate some kawaii style stickers (think big eyes and sparkes). They love it. The reward is (in the morning at least) however many Blueys they can watch before the predetermined departure time.

A few improvements to go, but from what I hear from other parents (without raising it) is that they'd take advantage of something like this.

I've been working on a decentralized group chat called River[1], which will be the first truly decentralized group chat and the flagship application on Freenet[1], a general purpose platform for decentralized apps.

Just 2 or 3 bugs remaining before people can start playing with both River and Freenet which hopefully means we're days away (touch wood).

[1] https://github.com/freenet/river [2] https://freenet.org/