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Posted by david927 2 days 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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boolean 2 days ago|
https://moveline.app/

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.

lajcinf 2 days ago||
Very cool, downloaded and using it right now. Do you have any future plans with this?
boolean 2 days ago||
I'm working on a feature to create fun timelapse videos of all the routes on the map. It should be released next week.

I'm open to any feedback.

dewey 2 days ago||
Strava and Apple Health integration is cool! What was your main differentiator to build it vs something like https://fogofworld.app?
boolean 2 days ago||
Thanks. I wanted to focus on performance (native app), simplicity, and privacy.
bambax 2 days ago||
This month I wrote a small Windows utility to keep a PC "always awake": prevents the PC from going to sleep (using a Windows API that exists just for that) and simulates invisible mouse movements every 60 seconds to keep apps like MS Teams happy, so that the user always appears active.

There is a PowerToy thingy that's similar but it's full of options and command-line flags. My version has no options, it's just a tray utility that can be toggled on (green) or off (orange) with double-click. There are also physical mouse jigglers but they're cumbersome, and many have visible mouse movements, which is extremely annoying (not all of them do this but many do!)

The full install file is just 100Kb, works on all versions of Windows starting with Win7, installs without admin rights. Can't live without it!

I need to make a website for it but I'm procrastinating on that one last step...

vstuart 22 hours ago||
I hand-curate a bespoke ontology related to my personal, independent research interests.

https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/wpi-ontology.pdf

ezeoleaf 2 days ago||
https://github.com/ezeoleaf/mycorust - A mycelium network simulation after I started to get interested in fungi and mycelium. Learnt a lot of Rust and gain more knowledge of performance and resource usage.
jngiam1 2 days ago||
MCP gateway: https://mintmcp.com

There's an agent monitor which intercepts requests either using a LLM proxy or hooks, that gives you full telemetry into the agents + MCPs used. And a MCP gateway that enables centralized deployment and securing of MCP.

_bramses 2 days ago||
I’m starting a book club!

- 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!

https://www.bramadams.dev/sixty-book-club/

komali2 2 days ago|
> five books a month

How?

I'm a prolific reader but outside of short fiction I can manage maybe 4 a month.

mattfrommars 1 day ago|||
I genuinely want to benchmark myself with fellow peers how on long they take to consume text book. I am not that into fiction or short fiction books - I generally loose interest.

How long would technical books take you to complete, say you have to read Effective Java 3rd Edition

komali2 1 day ago||
I haven't read a technical book in a long time. I read "You Don't know JS," which is very very short, in about a week. I read "Cracking the Coding Interview" in 3 weeks.

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.

_bramses 2 days ago|||
Pretty easily doable by reading multiple books at the same time! Averages out to ~50 pages a day.

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

raybb 2 days ago||
I've been writing https://urbanismnow.com weekly for a year. The idea is to bring you the best ideas from around the world to inspire action where you (c)are.

It's been going well for a side project and now I'm thinking of expanding to have a directory of urbanists on a map so you can easily find people involved in the local discourse and how to get involved.

capten 1 day ago||
I've been working on a ttrpg site for the last year with my own IP. The intent is to create an experience that makes an intuitive UI that minimizes tedious tasks.

You need to know "does this guy look hurt"? The enemy HP bar can be set to either an actual percentage, or set to have cracks in the bar to signify a range of damage. Does only person take notes? Personal notes are shareable and there's a section for community notes. Do you have enough perception to notice a hidden door? The UI can be set to go off passive perception and give you those notifications automatically.

It's still in early alpha testing with friends, but it should eliminate general GM pain points to encourage more groups to form.

frontendstrong 2 days ago||
I'm working on a performance review (PR) management platform that doesn't require a steep cost and deep integration into HRMS platforms.

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.

kraddypatties 2 days ago|
We've been tinkering with building realtime talking head models (avatar models, etc.) for a while now, and finally have something that works (well enough)! Operates at ~2x realtime on a 4090, significantly faster than that on enterprise grade GPUs.

You can try it yourself at https://playground.keyframelabs.com/playground/persona-1 and there's a (semi)technical blog post at https://www.keyframelabs.com/blog/persona-1

The main use case we designed for was language learning, particularly having a conversational partner -- generally we've found that adding a face to the voice really helps trigger the fight or flight response, which we've found to be the hardest part of speaking a new language with confidence.

But in building out the system around the model to enable that use case (tool use on a canvas for speaking prompts and images, memory to make conversations less stale, etc.), we think there's potential for other use cases too.

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