Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

16 points | by david927 7 hours ago

19 comments

  • purple-leafy 3 hours ago
    A C-based graphics engine/raycasting engine to make 90's games like Wolfenstein3D (1992) - but on a never-before seen scale.

    The scale is RNG worlds like Minecraft. I've never seen that before with a Raycaster.

    Here is my progress so far (I've had a month break)

    https://github.com/con-dog/chunked-z-level-raycaster/blob/ma...

    Not for profit, just for fun and exploration

  • finnigja 6 minutes ago
    I'm building an interactive, web-based Python tutorial site intended to help with learning basic syntax. Originally it was for my kids who wanted to learn to code, but... might be useful to others.

    https://learnpy.dev

    The content needs some work, but I'm pretty happy with the framework / UX. I would love to get any feedback from folks who check it out!

    (The first section is just multi-guess questions as part of the introductory content. Try any other section to get the full in-browser-code-execution experience, which uses client-side Pyodide under the hood.)

  • darklake 2 hours ago
    Continued working with my team to grow my granddaughter who at 15 months handles a spoon and fork to feed herself at each meal; drinks from a cup without assistance; can clean her face and understand everything she is told or asked (though sometimes with a devious smile makes what an adult might consider a poor choice.... She is testing her boundaries like she is supposed to do). I have learned how to and produced 6 different embroidery patterns on various pieces of infant clothing. I combined multiple web based directions to create a Wi-Fi enabled USB (from a raspberry pi W 2) to enable a link from my computer to my embroidery machine. I made cookies and shared them with others creating a lot of joy I'm visiting with my grandson in another state, modeling good parenting and offering help where I can.
  • seanwilson 5 hours ago
    A tool for building WCAG accessible Tailwind-like color palettes for UI/web design. :)

    https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

    > Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together.

    > Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors.

    > See which color pairs contrast as you edit so you can create a palette with built-in WCAG accessibility. This way you can plan in advance which foreground colors (for headings, body text, form fields and so on) should contrast on which background colors, so you can avoid running into surprise low contrast issues later when designing.

  • vira28 5 minutes ago
    A platform for technical founders to accelerate their journey to PMF http://buildrappo.com/founders
  • RandomBacon 10 minutes ago
    I vouched for Geolede (made by a green username) but it still needs more vouching. It looks interesting IMO.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154984

  • id00 12 minutes ago
    Working on my mobile semi-idle MMORPG for parents like myself. With the artstyle of 1980s/syntwave/cassette-futurism. Just finished the website over the weekend: https://afterglow-game.com/
  • japhyr 4 hours ago
    django-simple-deploy, a tool for making your initial Django deployment easier across a variety of platforms. It's plugin-based, so it should cover a growing set of platforms and deployment approaches. I just made the 1.0 release this month.

    https://django-simple-deploy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

  • _bramses 8 minutes ago
    a self organizing scrapbook! focused on zero stress for storage, searching, synthesizing and sharing a personal library

    https://yourcommonbase.com/

    (and some philosophy on the subject :))

    https://www.bramadams.dev/tag/personal-library-science/

  • SubGenius 5 hours ago
    Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix.

    https://matrixbird.com

  • codr7 13 minutes ago
    Embedded Lisp for app scripting:

    https://github.com/codr7/eli

    Typed Relational Database access:

    https://github.com/codr7/tyred

  • csomar 1 hour ago
    A merge conflict resolution tool for git/github. It is very alpha at the moment (https://codeinput.com) but my timeline is to go live on the next 3 months. Feel free to reach out if this of interest.
  • sshsinderdunkel 5 minutes ago
    A tool to interact with news using ML and AI. Kinda like an rss reader but with less focus on organizing news at the feed level.
  • rozenmd 5 hours ago
    OnlineOrNot as always, coming up to 4 years in operation (https://onlineornot.com)

    Currently working on adding webhook notifications for status pages.

    • nugzbunny 4 hours ago
      Some of your screenshots are cut off on mobile (iPhone/safari/portrait)
      • rozenmd 4 hours ago
        Hey thanks for letting me know!
  • javierluraschi 6 hours ago
    Working on hal9.ai -- Long term, a Roblox for AI; short term, a Python customizable ChatGPT that is enterprise ready. Think of ChatGPT without the LLM and support for writing your own RAG.

    https://github.com/hal9ai/hal9

  • gumshoe30 4 hours ago
    Geolede - An interactive world news map.

    https://geolede.com

  • some_furry 7 minutes ago
    Key Transparency for the Fediverse (so that we can build E2EE for DMs atop it)

    https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...

  • gom_jabbar 5 hours ago
    Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical.

    https://retrochronic.com/

    • csomar 1 hour ago
      Is the style/CSS custom made or is it a library/framework?