Posted by david927 11/9/2025
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
Knocker, an http knock based access service for your homelab that works at a reverse proxy or firewall level.
It's a more convenient albeit less secure alternative to VPNs like tailscale. It's more convenient because it whitelists the enite network, and it's less secure for that reason.
Items have a prefix and suffix system similar to Diablo 2 so I'm having nostalgic fun building it. None of this gives any advantage to the chess games you play. It's just a pointless cycle of gems, items, and experience to get more gems, items and experience. Seems fun so far.
It is simple but powerful supporting all formatting but also diagrams so you can get Claude to generate beautiful ER, or state-transition diagrams for your documentation. It also supports math notation, file links and has a cool table of contents feature
It's in the app store: ViewMD
https://github.com/s1liconcow/skyshelve - persistent python dictionary on S3. Used this to create a durable execution layer to do some of the analytics for the above.
Got tired of every single weather app and website being littered with ads. Half the time my weather apps don't load the weather maps but the ads work fine, c'mon! So decided to start my own; here's what I have so far...once I iron out the site I'll start on the Android app.
Feedback welcome :)
I have a couple minor suggestions, do with it what you want:
- I'd disable the fade between two visualizations on the live weather radar, it's hard to scroll through quickly now.
- Personally I'm always looking for the hourly and daily forecasts. Currently they are split by the live radar. I'd either move them all above or all below the radar if you want to keep this format