Posted by david927 11/9/2025
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I am also building an app for kids to make their arabic learning fun, rewarding and enjoyable. Do try and share your feedback. TIA
It's a need I have for myself and the teams I run – It offers direct PR's, 360º reviews, recording of wins and lessons (something often overlooked), and aims to be a platform for team and individualised growth, that is accessible to small and large businesses alike.
The goal is to let anyone create task‑specific agents, train with their own data and an embed it into any site.
Training is simple: paste text, upload files (PDF, DOCX, Markdown, CSV), or paste URLs and it will crawl/index them into a per‑agent knowledge base.
I'd love to know what you think.
- Sixty books a year (five books a month)
- Self Chosen Books (no forced reading)
- Two recorded Salon style meetings monthly
- Bespoke software for the group including: shared embedding graph of highlights and annotations, IRC chat with @ for members and books and authors, collective bookshelf
- Six members max
Learn more here if interested!
How?
I'm a prolific reader but outside of short fiction I can manage maybe 4 a month.
How long would technical books take you to complete, say you have to read Effective Java 3rd Edition
As for non fiction, I read "Anarchist Communism" (fairly short) in a week, "Delivered from Distraction" in a month, "Masters of Doom" in about 2 weeks.
It depends on my interest more than anything. I obliterated the entire Robin Hobb "Assassin's" series, 12 books, in just about two months.
The trick is to always keep the book queue filled, so long books that take a while coexist for a while with a number of shorter length ones
https://coolinary.app, simplifying cooking and recipe ideas
https://capi.tax, preparing capital gains tax reports from foreign brokers for German income tax (still closed)
I wanted to visualize all my walks and runs on a single map. I built a native iOS app that fetches Apple Health and Strava workouts and visualizes them. Privacy was a major factor in building the app, so all the data stays on the device. Next version will have a time-lapse video option. Any feedback welcome.
I'm open to any feedback.
Examples:
- YC: https://markets.apistemic.com/companies/y-combinator-goaq9
- uber: https://markets.apistemic.com/companies/uber-com-ojj2j
- Anthropic: https://markets.apistemic.com/companies/anthropicresearch-yx...
Try it for any company here: https://markets.apistemic.com
I want to 3D print a shell that goes over my car fob: I keep leaning on it and setting off the alarm. The shell would make sure the buttons never get pushed.
I want to 3D print a sleeve that keeps the NCAS dongle in my car charger. I really wish there was a dongle that stayed attached with screws or similar.
FWIW: I was playing with an inexpensive (for me) Revo Inspire over the weekend. It feels somewhere between learning an instrument and taking a daguerreotype. There's a lot of room for improvement in the equipment for someone like me who just wants to casually scan something so I can make an attachment part. (I kind of wish there was a box that I could clamp something in, and then have it be about as easy as a flatbed scanner.)
I ended up covering my key fob with blue painter's tape, which kinda-sorta got it to scan. (I tried dry shampoo and drawing on it with marker, but I could never get a big enough area to scan.) When I imported the scanned fob into Tinkercad, it really distorted.
I ended up ordering a set of digital calipers and I'm going to try skipping the 3D scan part and go directly to CAD.
Just published a blog post a few minutes ago: https://alexcbecker.net/blog/prompt-injection-benchmark.html