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Posted by david927 1 day ago

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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ccanassa 10 hours ago|
I’ve been reverse-engineering an obscure childhood game called Entomorph:

https://github.com/entomorph/reverse-engineering

I started the project when ChatGPT 4 was first released, using it as a way to explore what LLMs could actually do. I also find working on it very relaxing, there is something cool about uncovering secrets hidden in code for more than twenty years.

ParanoidShroom 1 day ago||
Reverse image search to match dirty XTC tablets to lab reports https://pillscanner.app/

https://kauwenofspauwen.be/en Belgian food hygiene rating from official gov reports

Rick76 23 hours ago||
I've been wanting to learn more embedded type projects, and I've been snacking too often so I've been building a box that will only open on the weekends.

I got all the components, tested it on a breadboard, learned to solder and now I'm working on the 3d Print to enclose everything.

I actually just did a test run to see if my current 3d design would fit my PICO board, and it fit, but not that secure yet.

Im a developer but never worked this close to metal, so I've been so happy with how it's been going so far, making me real proud of myself.

bbkane 23 hours ago||
Great project, hope you enjoy (not) using it!
tleyden5iwx 13 hours ago||
I built Arty: https://github.com/vibemachine-labs/arty

It's an open-source iOS voice agent that uses the OpenAI Realtime API (bring your own key).

Current connectors: Hacker News (check demo in readme!), Google Drive, GitHub, and web search.

I got frustrated with the limitations of the OpenAI Realtime Voice iOS app—for example, it can't even connect to Google Drive.

Arty is self-contained except for the OpenAI model and any third-party services you connect to. Uses local tools—no MCP support yet.

If you'd like additional connectors, feel free to open an issue.

lifty 13 hours ago|
This is super cool. I noticed that you mention that you will add MCP support soon. I was wondering, do you think it would be possible to control MacOS via voice, remotely, through one of the available MCP servers that allow MacOS control. Do you think that would be feasible?
saturatedfat 11 hours ago||
yes but ud ideally want ur own high uptime mac mini
lifty 11 hours ago||
Got it. But you could just use it on your MacBook on those occasions where you want to "talk" to your computer remotely to check on some progress it made on a specific job. My use case would involve switching desktops, activating specific windows, and reading their content and taking some action. But depends more specifically on the MCP that exposes that functionality, and not your app. I was asking because you're probably more familiar on how reliable such an approach might be.
aneeshd16 18 hours ago||
I built a tool to generate a PDF for each row of a Google sheet. For example, you can generate 100 personalized PDFs (like certificates) for 100 students listed in a Google Sheet.

https://sheetstopdf.com/

Once you sign up and connect your Google sheet, it generates a template (using AI) based on your data, which you can edit in a Notion-like editor. You can then generate PDFs for your entire sheet or a for a range of rows.

Some use cases I'm seeing:

* Certificates for students or course completions

* Monthly invoices for all your clients (https://sheetstopdf.com/use-cases/business/invoices)

* Personalized reports with individual client data

* Event tickets or conference badges

* Contracts, offer letters, or any personalized documents

* Really anything where you have rows of data that need to become individual PDFs

Would love to hear what you think or if you have use cases I haven't thought of yet!

tonyedgecombe 18 hours ago|
A modern day mail merge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_merge

prhn 1 day ago||
I just launched a 10-Bit Video Thumbnail Provider for Windows.

Windows does not natively support rendering thumbnails for 10-bit videos, which are commonly produced by cameras like the Sony A7IV.

When I started working on a short film the video clips were piling up on my hard drive. Opening them one by one to find what I was looking for was tedious.

I could not find a reputable solution to this problem, so I started a company and built one. I went through the process of EV Certification to have the installer and executable code signed.

I hope to be in the Microsoft Store soon.

I'm also building other utilities with similar purpose.

https://ruptureware.com/thumbprovider

varun764 7 hours ago||
Working on AI interpretability infrastructure! Starting with hallucination/failure mode detection and causal tracing in transformer-based foundation models. It's non-SAE, domain-agnostic, and works for any kind of tokens or sequence data (e.g. not just English text - biological sequences, physics data, etc). Some of our early tests indicate that this detection setup could broadly work well for any property, but we've mostly validated on hallucinations. If you have access to self-trained or open-weight models, would love to have you try out the alpha version - running it through HuggingFace!
ChrisMarshallNY 11 hours ago||
Ugh. It's time for me to start transitioning my iOS/Watch/Mac programs to be "Liquid Glass-native."

I should be able to do it with my various personal apps, but one app I've written, was done in concert with a professional graphic designer, and he is not happy with LG, so I expect that app to be a pain.

These are my apps: https://littlegreenviper.com/AppDocs/

senotrusov 17 hours ago||
I’ve created a small command-line tool that generates a hash-based, human-readable list of git repositories and data folders. Its purpose is to capture the exact state of all projects and files in a single plain-text file.

I built it because I work across multiple machines and often worry about which projects are on which computer or whether I’ve left any files in unique locations. Now I can diff the summaries between devices to see what’s out of sync, which repositories have uncommitted changes, and which folders have been modified.

I avoid using cloud sync services, and most of my files are already in git anyway. I find that having clear visibility is enough, I just need to know what to commit, push, pull, or sync manually.

I would be glad if it proves useful to someone besides me.

https://github.com/senotrusov/fstate

umrashrf 20 hours ago|
Postbase

Open source, drop-in replacement and self-hosted alternative for Firebase

Using Node.js, Express.js, BetterAuth and PostgreSQL (JSONB)

https://github.com/umrashrf/postbase

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