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Posted by david927 3/30/2025

Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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dh1011 3/31/2025|
I'm working on a VSCode extension that lets me quickly copy code from a workspace into a structured format for LLMs. This makes it easy to provide context so the LLM can continue developing the codebase.

There are other similar tools out there—mostly web apps or CLI-based—but I found a VSCode extension to be the fastest and most convenient option for VSCode users.

Here’s the extension link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=H337.c2p

I'd love to get any feedback.

paxpelus 3/31/2025||
I am working with a colleague of mine on Handout Generator (https://handouts.cthulhuarchitect.com) which is a website you can use to create fake documents and handouts to be used in different TTRPG, especially investigative ones like Call of Cthulhu.

It is going pretty well, already 17k users signed up. There are many people using it daily which give me the motivation to continue working on this.

I just wish I had more time to spend on this instead of the boring CRUD app I work on for living.

yodaarjun 3/31/2025||
This month I've been working on automating the data collection and processing for my property research website [0]. I'm testing out DuckDB to process geospatial data, and so far the process has been quite pleasant.

As long as you don't need many advanced spatial functions (where PostGIS shines), and you make sure to minimize the use of GDAL to perform operations, it parallelizes processing quite nicely (most queries on large datasets saturate as many cores as you throw at it).

[0] https://wynds.com.au

aedrax 3/31/2025||
I'm working on a tool specifically for viewing log files, it started when I wanted to open logcat files and have filtering but I couldn't really do that with a lightweight tool, Wireshark works well and I found a cool tool called lognote. so I started making my own, and I wanted to display things different ways and make it easy to add features. it's still a work in progress but I'm proud of it so far

https://github.com/aedrax/logdor

deadwanderer 4/1/2025|
You should also be proud of the name!
zh3 3/30/2025||
Low cost monocular headset display for rugged outdoor use (cycling, sailing, err golf). Idea is your phone sends low bandwidth data to the display for handsfree info, so more simple data display than xR.
jordanmorgan10 3/31/2025||
A basketball shot chart. I’m about done with it, but one thing I was happy to have figured - out coaches often want to tag a shot as a particular type. So like a three pointer, mid range, or whatever else it may be. With my shot chart, it automatically tags the shot based on where they added it, which I think is pretty neat.

https://bsky.app/profile/jordanmorgan10.bsky.social/post/3ll...

gavinhoward 3/30/2025||
Designing a new VCS, operating system, and GUI framework because those are the three things I am most worried will be taken over by corporate interests.

I don't know which one I will actually implement, though.

seanwilson 3/31/2025||
I'm still iterating on a WCAG accessible palette creator for web design/UI:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

I use it myself for making branded palettes for projects because it gives you full control over the hue, saturation and lightness curves (instead of these being mostly autogenerated), and it helps you make tint/shades for multiple swatches at a time that go together (rather than a single swatch at a time).

Get in touch if you have any feature requests!

ffsm8 3/31/2025||
I threw together a ratio calculator for Dyson sphere project to get the last two achievements done.

https://wohlben.github.io/factory-fractals/recipes/75?target... It's not really optimized for mobile though, and I actually forgot to give mobile users the recipe picker.

And there seems to be a strange bug only with the rare quartz recipe (it thinks it'll provide 1/4 more items then it does).

cerpins 3/31/2025|
Working on a full on Riichi Mahjong web client because I really like the game and want to make a more serious english client without anime.

Did it also to learn rust, which made it easy to convert the engine code into webassembly and create a hand score calculator for the game :)! https://cerpins.com/mahjong-tool

Plans now are to finish the client, then freshen up the calculator with some QOL and visuals, surely a bug fix might be needed here and there as well.

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