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

Posted by david927 3/30/2025

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

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prakashn27 3/31/2025|

Working on “AI automations for Jira” to help Jira admins create automation scripts using AI.

- secure and complaint as it runs on Atlassian

- easy to create automation as AI does the heavy lifting of creating the automation scripts for Jira

- unlimited which was a major limitation in native Atlassian offering.

https://ai-automation.123x.dev/

seawlf 4/4/2025||

I'm building a new terminal multiplexer called cy: https://cfoust.github.io/cy/index.html

It records your sessions and is configurable with Janet, a Lisp. I'm having a lot of fun with it! (It's also the only thing I ever seem to post about on HN, heh)

coreyp_1 3/30/2025||

I'm trying to make my own GUI library in cross-platform C, based on Vulcan. Because evidently I'm a glutton for punishment.

I'm only a couple of weeks in. But it's giving me a break from my programming language that I was working on. (It's a template language, also written in C, also cross-platform, that has a jit compiler with a bytecode fallback.)

lwouis 3/31/2025||

If anyone is interested, i'm looking for someone to take over a port of Windows alt+tab window switching for the Mac.

The app is very mature, yet it could still be improved in interesting ways.

https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/1179

PotatoNinja 3/31/2025|

Happy user for many years!

Wishing you good luck with finding a maintainer.

sakisv 3/30/2025||

I want to SaaS-ify my scraping process. It's gotten to a point that it works nice and reliably for me, now I need to wrap it in a good DX package and call it version 0.1.

(The main drive behind this was not to sell it, but to have a UI for when a website changes its layout and I'm on holidays and don't have access to my terminal and/or my yubikeys)

attilakun 3/30/2025||

I was trying to reproduce the NeuralSVG paper but it's hard. In the process I had to learn about diffusion and flow matching.

andupotorac 4/8/2025|

Regardless if this or other paper is what you end up implementing, I wanted to say kudos for doing the right thing - having the right approach. Building stuff that's just now possible - in AI, from research papers - and productizing it, is how you get ahead of everyone else.

attilakun 4/15/2025||

Thank you. I got something (but not the full method) working. However, I ended up abandoning this approach because I realized that the SDS process is too slow. It'd take at least 10 mins to generate a single SVG.

neal_ 3/31/2025||

Im building retro style text editor with Open GL shaders, its a work in progress. I have ported st.c to imgui and have mostly working terminal emulator, now im working on LSP adapters and extending language support. https://github.com/nealmick/ned

PaulRobinson 3/31/2025||

I'm thinking a lot about RSS/Atom, how great email is to read content, and the intersection of these ideas with the W3C WebMonetization spec.

I think there's an opportunity to do novel things in this space, and LLMs might help in terms of providing summaries that people actually want.

I'm building this for me, but I think it could be useful for other people, too.

hallman76 3/31/2025||

TIL that there is a W3C WebMonetization spec - thanks for sharing.

Taking a look, it seems quite underwhelming[0] :( Lack of monetization on the web gave us the ad-driven content model that LLMs are now hovering up.

Have there been any other proposals for monetization?

[0] https://webmonetization.org/specification/

spiderfarmer 3/31/2025||

Make a combination of RSS/Atom and the MCP protocol.

ghoshbishakh 3/31/2025||

I am working on supporting wildcard custom domains for https://pinggy.io

What we found is that we can issue certificates for a wildcard domain even without asking the user to setup TXT records. If one CNAME record is set, we can set the TXT records on our domain to validate the wildcard domain.

Very excited about it.

thomasjb 3/31/2025|

I'm putting about an evening a week into Advent of Code 2015, in C, to try to learn a bunch of stuff that I won't unless I push myself: https://git.thomasballantine.com/thomasballantine/Advent_of_...

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