Posted by david927 3/30/2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
It includes rolling correlation charts, hierarchical clustering, and a terminal-style interface with high data density. It uses a 2D windowing/virtualization approach to render only visible matrix cells to the DOM. It's early WIP. The landing page is particularly bad.
It's still very heavy in development but the gist is: Say you have a cool idea for something small you want to automate or run - instead of thinking about hosting, workers, lambdas and what not, you just open microfn, open the editor (or the function generator), write your function, hit save - done! All the complexity is tucked away on microfn, and your place of use just has to authenticate with microfn and nothing else. We run it for you and keep you productive.
Now you can use that function from anywhere: From the terminal, periodically with a cron, add it to an AI agent as skill, use it through an MCP (not released yet), through Siri shortcuts, share it with your friends and so on.
Say you want to have an agent or function that gets the weather and sends it through Telegram: You can either quickly generate 2 functions through the AI function generator that get the weather ("I want a function that gets the weather for Tokyo") and another one for sending a message on telegram, or you can use what's already available (such as https://microfn.dev/david/getweathertokyo). Equipping them to an agent works like in a video game - each function is a new "skill" or "tool" the agent can use, and if someone else already has some cool skills, you can fork them without needint to re-implement everything from scratch.
So like a toolbox full of small composable hammers and tools that can be used across different scenarios and places, to be plugged into existing workflows, automation or to even be used in autonomous agents and through MCP.
Again, super heavy in development and not really a 1.0 yet, more like an early alpha, but wanted to share here anyway. Feedback greatly appreciated!
It's mostly feature complete at this point, but there are still some rough edges.
Notion's API is far from complete, and updates are few and far between. This has led me to work around some of its limitations in creative ways. For example, there is still no way to create top-level pages in Notion, which makes restores impossible. Instead, I ask customers to create a top-level page themselves and write backups there.
Personally, the hardest part of working on a project for an extended period is not getting burnt out repeteadly. Sometimes it helps to work on something else, and other times you just need to step away from the game entirely for a while
I also had a recent blog post [2] do fairly well on HN, and now I'm kinda thinking about a new design for version 2 of that project because I can't help it I guess.
[1] https://victorpoughon.github.io/torchlensmaker/
[2] https://victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-making-artificial-sunlight-...
Just shipped the first phase of v2 which lets you navigate Nix store objects.
Give it a spin here: https://v2.mynixos.com/nix/store/16s8kjwv6zz7xyv3hjr890n7v0d...
(Adjust settings in the upper right corner menu to control what is streamed).
More info here and in FAQ on front page: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/mynixos-v2-release-updates/622...
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It's quite a mess as we have to aggregate multiple data sources that come with their own timing and sequence issues - plus we are seeing massive adoption so resource usage will be interesting for v2.
The plus side is that building massively parallel and redundant services in Elixir is, if not actually fun, at least more feasible than in other environments.
The goal is make it easier for organizations to work with external parties that affect finances (customers, investors, vendors, etc.).
The idea was born out of personal frustration that I've faced in a variety of leadership roles in organizations, that lead to wasted effort, slower decision making, bad decisions made with equally unhygienic data.
I've solved this successfully in the past form of internal tools and a data governance layer (data warehouse with much more authority).
Exporting book highlights from a Kobo was slow and inconvenient; you’d need to connect the device to your computer via USB and run a script, or upload the onboard sqlite database to a website to extract book highlights. With Highlights.Email, you tap a button on-device and in a few seconds have a nicely formatted email with all your book highlights!
So, I’m just scratching my own itch mainly while learning how to build and launch something to the world. There’s two parts to this service: Rust program that runs on-device and a SveltKit app (w/ a Supabase backend) for auth and sending emails.