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Posted by david927 18 hours 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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unpack3101 3 hours ago|
We are building https://ceogenerator.com/ to help investors, founders and product teams validate product–market fit in minutes, not months. We also offer Generative Engine Optimization + Competition monitoring.

We are looking for an angel! Please reach out at hello@ceogenerator.com

sandruso 3 hours ago||
Untrusted code execution paired with AI to make explorative data analysis more simple [0]. I've spent a lot of time with web development in the past. This is breath of fresh air honestly.

[0] https://flaprix.com

deepdarkforest 16 hours ago||
I'm working on Flavia, an ultra-low latency voice AI data analyst that can join your meetings. You can throw in data(csv's, postgres db's, bigquery, posthog analytics for now) and you just talk and ask questions. Using cerebras(2000 tokens per second) and very low latency sandboxes on the fly, you can get back charts/tables/analysis in under 1 second. (excluding time of the actual SQL query if you are doing bigquery).

She can also join your google meet or teams meetings, share her screen and then everyone in the meeting can ask questions and see live results. Currently being used by product managers and executives for mainly analytics and data science use cases.

We plan to open-source it soon if there is demand. Very fast voice+actions is the future imo

https://www.tryflavia.com/

vessenes 16 hours ago||
This sounds amazing. A demo video would help me finish sign up - I can’t try it without hooking it up to real data, and I don’t want to for a test.
deepdarkforest 14 hours ago||
Great feedback thanks! We have added a synthetic e-commerce dataset as an example when you sign up so you can test it without your data first. Will also add a demo video ASAP.
ilaksh 14 hours ago||
What kind of plan do you have with Cerebras? It seems like something like that would need one of the $1500/month plans at least if there were more than a handful of customers.
deepdarkforest 4 hours ago||
They introduced pay as you go recently. The limits on that is similar to the plans, 1 million tokens per minute, so if you stack a few keys and do a simple load balancing with redis, can cover a decent amount of traffic with no upfront cost. Eventually we would have to go enterprise though yes!
c0nrad 2 hours ago||
Building a cheaper DMARC service with no ssotax. https://dmarcdefender.io
realusername 2 hours ago||
I'm currently working on porting Android 16 to a Galaxy S5.

Why? For learning and fun.

The next step is to debug kernel logs with uart.

santah 3 hours ago||
20 years and counting, working on https://next-episode.net (it's a TV/Movies tracking website and community).

I've dedicated this week to some maintenance tasks that are long overdue (mainly modernization of the code and the database), kinda delaying the inevitable (which is to work on harder tasks in my todo - like adding features to the mobile apps).

jjude 13 hours ago||
Over the years, I've read countless books. I started documenting one idea that shaped my thinking from each of these books. This idea may or may not be the core theme of the book.

Hope to document 100 ideas. Wish me luck.

https://www.jjude.com/100-ideas-from-books/

sponaugle 16 hours ago||
A 68030 based computer - https://github.com/jeffsponaugle/roscoe

It has been a super fun experience so far - I'm using CPLDs instead of an FPGA which makes the logic a bit more era period. I have a working system now with the math coprocessor, SRAM, DRAM, and other device support.

I am just about ready to get the VGA card I designed produced so I can work on debugging the design.

While this is fundamentally a system that ss less powerful than my apple watch, it is just fun to work on. Going back to very first principles debugging, building tools, and of course getting to exercise an old logic analyzer!

alienonwings 3 hours ago||
Working on a low cost, miniature Bluetooth tracker. The inspiration was my parents keep losing (forget) their spectacles in the house. I wanted to build something that is very easy and simple to use and it was important to keep it small. SO the form factor is something like an airtag but 10x smaller which can be just stuck on to the spectacles and forget that it exists. Next step, obviously is to build a simple app that shows the location of this tracker with a range based on the Bluetooth signal strength.
abound 16 hours ago|
I'm building a small rural ISP and web hosting service, as a way to learn about low-level networking stuff. I've got an ASN + IP space, and am working out the details with a colo, local fiber provider, and some upstreams. Right now I'm configuring the hardware itself (server, router, switch, etc) and learning all the bits and bobs (Proxmox, BGP, OPNsense, IXPs, etc)
Loughla 16 hours ago|
All I can say is good luck. We spun up a co-op isp to take advantage of fiber grants for rural areas about a decade ago.

Maybe it was because of the grants, but it was a fucking nightmare getting off the ground even though we had nearly 90% of the population in three counties on board for the co-op. The red tape and regulations (in our state at least) made it clear that government runs for urban and suburban interests and actively undermines rural needs. I'm talking government in bed with large providers who had exclusive rights to run "high-speed" Internet to our towns and farms, even though they had never and were never planning on anything above dsl for most people and cable for the ones in town.

If I was more charismatic (and wasn't 1000% sure there were pictures of me doing drugs when I was in college), I would consider a run for state office, because it's a shit show for small towns here.

And that's the story of a) when we got sued by a large provider that I hope goes out of business and burns to the ground, and b) the last time I volunteered on a large project and why I will never take the lead on anything bigger than the Lion's Club pancake breakfast now.

abound 13 hours ago|||
Oof, thanks for sharing and the well wishes.

I'm funding this myself, and my current approach (hopefully!) avoids most of the red tape. I'm leasing fiber from a local ISP for the colo <-> my home connection, and once I have myself as a successful "customer" of my own ISP, I'll start doing the last mile build out, which is where I expect the red tape to begin.

But I haven't decided if I'll do fiber or wireless, and if I go wireless, I might be able to avoid pole agreements entirely by just working directly with my neighbors. The problem is that our area is pretty heavily wooded, so I'm not sure if I can place antennas high enough to cover a reasonable swatch of the area.

jermaustin1 13 hours ago|||
> If I was more charismatic (and wasn't 1000% sure there were pictures of me doing drugs when I was in college), I would consider a run for state office, because it's a shit show for small towns here.

Loads of politicians have come back from worse! Don't let that hold you back.

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