Posted by david927 3/30/2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
A lot planned, not much built. Just started so follow along if it sounds useful! Also see my prior thoughts on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41286912
Sqratch - https://github.com/jkcorrea/sqratch
https://github.com/Melvillian/navi
Checkout out the README; it gives you a straightforward idea of how Navi works. Currently only works for Notion, but the idea is to make any notetaking tool (Obsidian, Evernote, Google docs, etc...) be ingestable by Navi.
Next steps are to make an SRS plugin, and to make a HTMX-based website so it's useable beyond just the CLI.
[0] jacobin.org
The 8.5 inch racking system was inspired by Jeff Geerling's video about 10 inch rack, but shrunk even further to allow me to fit it on my 3D printer bed (8.6 inch square). I currently have parts for the top and bottom of the rack, as well as 1U and 2U expansions that you can slot together to make the rack as tall as you want. I'm also thinking about making a side attachment system so you can clip fans onto the side or similar. Once I have a working rack with several units in it, I'll probably end up publishing the parts and a writeup about it
I'm writing bigger CLIs with it now and I want to tab through their subcommands and flags, as well as allow customization - suggest values for the current flag based on previous flags' values.
It's been a lot of work (9 months of quite limited side project time)- I had to rearchitect significant parts of the parsing to keep more state around, and learn how I want to approach communication with zsh, but I just need to add some tests and an option or two more and it'll be good enough for most CLIs I wrote.
Oddly enough, I'm procrastinating actually finishing it. I've really enjoyed the "grind" for this feature, and I'm also taking the time to clean up the API if I think of better versions. Being able to noodle around with no pressure (except internal) to deliver keeps the joy in programming going for me.
But, after this is done and integrated into my CLIs, I plan to take a left turn and try to add really good OTEL tracing and visualization to my CLIs- I think I can outut OTEL traces to log files and then embed logdy.dev subcommands for really nice searching and visualization.
I'm doing it for my personal use, but maybe someone will find it useful too ;)
It’s been handy for big purchases I’m ok waiting for and stocking up on recurring non-perishable essentials when they go on sale. It also lets me know when something has come back in stock.
Suggestions by this platform wouldn't interfere with treatment protocol straight away; it wouldn't ask the patient to stop medicines their doctor has prescribed, or itself prescribe scheduled drugs.
It will suggest complementary interventions. Case in point: anxiety, depression, brain degeneration & other related diseases - there's Rhonda Patrick's protocol of HIIT exercises to breach the blood-brain barrier & deliver positive effects; there's Dr Chris Palmer's method of looking at metabolism & mental health jointly & benefits of a keto diet to solve such issues.
Likewise, there can suggestions from Yoga-Pranayama where deep breathing can solve insomnia & hence other diseases downstream such as hypertension in many cases.
After being on such complementary protocols, the patient's suffering will be reduced, but also the body will heal enough to an extent that their local doctor could reduce/stop medication.
The tech is in the platform, combing through wisdom of all such complementary protocols for a start. If it gains traction, we could start involving experts have system route some queries specifically to them.
I have experience building the ML-LLM part. Anyone wants to join me and build the full stack part?
I finally cracked ansible/docker-compose provisioning on Ubuntu and plan to expand that out to support Debian also. The groundwork is there. I can finally see an official release in the distant horizon, I just need to put those quality of life features in now, like the ability to delete your own account, change your email address, notifications on comments and all that stuff.
- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...
- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
If yes, do you think it's already mature enough to give it a spin?
I would recommend it for everything you said except for this part. Everything posted is publicly visible by design. I'm afraid I have no intention of changing that. You're free to fork it if you want though.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brynet_openbsd-activity-73074...