Ask HN: What are you working on?

33 points by bra-ket ↗ HN
follow-up on similar threads from the past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032699 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700662

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Just launched http://channeltotals.com a couple of months ago (YouTube statistics tool, only has like 1 feature)

Working on http://memes.io here and there for fun, thinking of making a "launch your own meme site" type of thing.

I like your slogan.
http://i.imgur.com/GcQMa0d.jpg

First venture, trying to earn some side money through personal 'tech solutions' style consulting.

Why is the email "learnsoft352@"? Why not something like "learnsoftconsulting@"?
Good thought. LearnSoft@ wasn't available, so I just included the local area code at the end as an alternative. Just finished this mockup today, so it's still rough. Thanks for your input.
If you're advertising tech solutions, then surely you should have something better than a gmail account. Kind of suggests that you don't know how to set up email for your own domain name.
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Is that 90's design style on purpose? That way you can attract older users?
In my "free" time lately writing a book on Software Performance and Scalability. After that will write a sequel to a sci-fi comedy I published earlier this year titled The Dread Space Pirate Richard.

Also want to put more time into 2 experimental/speculative software projects, one that does election processing, the other involving taxes and electronic transactions. Not expecting to make money with either. Mainly for the experience, more career feathers in the hat, and to concretely apply some ideas around architecting for maximum performance and scalability.

My "day job" work is confidential, and therefore a secret between me, myself, I, and my employer. (And whichever employees/contractors of the NSA that the NSA/FISA sees fit to share it with, haha.)

I've spent a lot of time learning and experimenting in the are of performance and scalability. I am curious about your book, willing to share 2-3 paragraphs?
Yes! It's mostly in the outline stage now, gathering test readers and P&S experts for feedback, and only a few pages of actual chapter content have been written. Please send an email to the address in my HN profile, if you're interested in seeing more.
http://getairy.com - alpha, works for American hotels for now. Building it to improve my Ember.js skills.
Ok, I see people are testing it. When you search for a city, you have to then select it from the dropdown, otherwise it won't work (I'll fix it tomorrow).
This weekend;

7min.io

MultiplayerChess.com

github.com/azer/boxcars

github.com/azer/onejs

github.com/azer/shell-jobs

github.com/azer/fox

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Working on becoming a better programmer, as a full time network engineer i've never really put too much effort into learning coding standards. Been the only person that maintains my applications it's fairly easy to be slack on the admin side of things...

Recently I've been doing a lot of coding, and noticed that my version control and testing could do with some improvement, also been playing around with a few frameworks to see if they make my coding any faster, or more efficient.

Once that's done i'll probably look at improving some of my current application code base, then learn another (none web based) language.

http://simplerses.com - A hosted email solution and newsletter delivery tool powered by Amazon SES. Been working on it as a side project for a while. Trying to put more time over the weekends now that I have a few paying customers.
In my spare time, machine learning. I'm working through Bishop's book and testing out a few ideas of my own (a new way to ensemble models and a way for ANN's to communicate).
My largest current project is writing a book about neural networks and deep learning.
Sounds interesting. Are you working with a traditional publishing company?
No, I've published two books previously with traditional companies, and wanted to try something new.
I'm creating a distributed network project based on a combination of recent AI and fractal findings. Can you share some sentences from your book? And where to get it when it's done?
An open source game for the Apple II, written in 6502 assembly language. Original music transcribed from public domain scores (played with the 2-tone Electric Duet software). It's been very mind-opening to have to think about every byte of memory, learn bit twiddling tricks, design efficient data structures to fit game data on a 140KB floppy disk, etc.
Working through Communicating Sequential Processes paper to understand the fundamentals behind core.async. Have a strong understanding of Clojure but need to fill out core.{logic, async, match} as well as the array libraries.
I'm trying to investigate the learning of artificial neural networks by using methods from mathematical logic.
whew! Can you tell me more? I work in a very related field.
Sorry for the delay of this answer.

I'm still at the very beginning with this project and have no interesting results yet :(

There is a model relationship between artificial neural networks and sets of sentences in a formal language. One idea is to track sets of sentences during the training of a network and see if something interesting can be found.

mobile app for animating and visual programming on tablets
http://www.one-tab.com - save up to 95% memory in Google Chrome and reduce tab clutter. It launched on HN a couple months ago, and am currently adding multi-PC sync.
Thank you! I've been using it for almost a month, and I love it.

I currently have more than 2000 tabs in OneTab. They used to all be open and in memory. I can now watch videos without too much lag (I still have 500 open tabs that I should transfer to OneTab).

This sure makes being a hoarder easier.

I started using OneTab after seeing the post on HN, and I gotta admit that it has been really useful. Thanks for making it!
I love one tab. Thank you.