Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

LOVE this. Are there any plans to open-source? I'd love to run my own instance.

Also some feedback: the ordering buttons are inexplicably in french despite everything else being in English. Choice of language or defaulting to English would be expected...

Also - multi-select and nullable options. So that I can create options like Taco / Steak / Pasta, and add side options that are relevant only when one of those is selected.

Do not worry about cleaning up the code before open sourcing it. Get it on GitHub and I am sure plenty of us would open PRs. I know I would!

This is lovely,I thought about doing something similar but as a 'Dads taxi' app similar to Uber where my family can request rides. Partly because I sometimes struggle to remember where I supposed to be and when, but also because it might just be fun

Bug report: I tried to create a new cafe with a name that contained a space character in it. The form told me the ID was invalid but seems to have created my user account anyway. When I log in now, the CafeID I get is 'undefined'; as in, I am now the proud owner of https://mytinycafe.com/undefined/barista. I'm assuming this is not intended :)

I love this concept and the execution.

So cozy. I love this.

One nit: the contrast in dark mode at least on the marketing site is a bit off (But I'd love to fix it myself if it was open source :) )

Awesome! I like when imagination fills the gaps of technology, maybe because I played on old computers like spectrum, we had few pixels and had to imagine the rest.

The ordering could’ve been “solved” with a WhatsApp message, ( or shouting ? :D ) but that would have been so boring!

This much better life UX !

This app is a reminder of being playful and imaginative in life can bring joy, congrats!

Very cool concept - thank you for sharing it! I think would be a great solution to the near-daily "what should we eat" problem.

If I could make a (not-important) suggestion, I think being able to re-arrange / categorize menu items would be useful. Something that lets you group together drinks apart from snacks as an example.

Super cute! Might try it out soon (my partner and I are both working from home most of the time).

FYI: The features section of the website doesn't render correctly in dark-mode.

You should add food and prices too. Obviously you don’t need to implement an actual payment system because it’s for fun, but if it kept track of the money, your kid could charge you 0.50 per drink or something.

This made me ovulate, and I'm not even a woman.

Ah this is one of my favorite projects I've seen in a long while. Will open my home cafe.

I never expected to open this and find something that would put a big grin on my face.

Thank you for giving me some joy.

Oh man this would kinda help me a lot right now. (As a struggling home owner living w/mom and dog)

FYI this is a blank page on Firefox :(

The testimonials section is adorable

Lovely idea! One Latte for me :)

This is awesome. Perfectly solving a problem, showing off tech, and adorable.

Excellent. kicad is cool; zero install should be a good gateway drug.

That's super cool! Not needing to install is great for accessibility for new users, and I think this would also be cool if it can be embedded into other websites as a viewer (like imagine opening up a Git repo with KiCAD files in it and being able to explore them in an integrated viewer)

I just finished a dsn parser and now I am planning to write a pcb router. All in rust. The plan is to have a wasm/wasi version as well so routing is possible in the browser.

That is very cool. I can't wait to try it out!

Awesome Project! Would love to hear more!

This is a great project! Thanks for tackling it!

On the subject of whisper being great... A few weeks ago a co-worker commented about the difficulty he'd had editing a work demo, I pointed at various jump-cutting tools that had automated what he did in the past (editing out silences). But I'd also wanted to play with whisper for a while...

So a couple of hours later I'd written a script that does transcription based editing: on the first pass it grabs a timestamped transcript and a plain text transcript for editing; you edit the words into any order you like and a second pass reassembles the video (it's just a couple of hundred lines of python wrapping whisper and ffmpeg). It also speeds up 4x any silences detected that sit within retained sequences in the video.

Matching up transcripts turns out to be not that hard; I normalise the text, split it, and then compare to the sequence of normalised words from the timestamped transcript. I find the longest common sequence, keep that, then recurse on the before/after sections (there's a little more detail, but not much). I also sent the transcription to ffmpeg to burn in as captions, because sometimes it makes the audio choppy and the captions make it easier to follow.

I know, tools have been doing this for years now. I just didn't have one to hand, and now I do, and I couldn't have done this without whisper.

Couldn't find it on the Play store by searching for the name and the developer's name: if it is not just me then your app is very hard to discover.

So I am installing it through the link you provided, which directed me to a "install success" page saying "your purchase is successful" even if your app is free. Another obstacle to adoption :-)

Last, I was not informed on the page of the app' size. Seeing what it does and the time it takes to download I am afraid it could be huge? Third obstacle :-)

Pretty cool. I've downloaded and lightly tested. Works great.

I love the "free forever, no ads part..." But it obscures what the app is for. Maybe start with the "Speech to text transcription" to make it clearer.

Either way, that's just semantics. Great job

It'd be nice to keep the voice recording too, as I noticed at least one thing that it transcribed wrong.

This way one can listen to the recording again, and correct such issues.

That's very cool, I've been looking for a fully offline transcription app for quite a while. Thanks for building this! And thanks so much for providing an "import audio file" function, not just "record from mic" -- transcribing voice notes from various messenger apps is my main use case here.

Do you have an idea about supporting languages other than English?

Whoa cool, so all the transcription is done locally? Have you done any perf monitoring around that on iOS?

I have been using the iOS built in speechTranscriber and it is... not great, was gonna use a whisper API but running it on device would be amazing if it isn't too heavy.

I really liked wisprflow on my mac but my daily driver is Manjaro KDE. I have stitched together a bash script that copies the transcription (right now I am using the Parakeet TDT 0.6B) to my clipboard. I would give this a try on linux when it becomes available.

I just tried running this on a 30 minute meeting with some 10 people in. It got to the end, then just bailed without transcribing. I also did not get any errors or anything.

@blazingbanana

We have a similar product in the construction space. Would love to talk to you about some of our challenges and possibly work together. Interested?

Would you consider adding it F-Droid?

nice app!

if I am talking in german the text is translating it to english. Didn't expect that

I started playing a couple weeks ago (and got my Mum and one of her friends playing too).

I enjoy it, but I find the clues seem a bit too easy, and honestly I'm normally terrible at crosswords. Take that for what you will, totally understandable if you're aiming at "cozy/relaxing".

I appreciate the polish of the UI compared to a lot of the other janky word games out there anyway.

I'd love to learn how you grew your audience so fast! I built https://dailybaffle.com but haven't reached your numbers yet.

My partner and I have been playing this almost every morning. We're really enjoying it!

Some feedback: 1) it would be great if the incomplete clues could move to the top. this would avoid having to scroll down towards the end of the puzzle. 2) better collission behavior; it would be nice if we could drag a chunk of words and it would just "move the other words" out of the way. Sometimes we have to spend time to make a path to move chunks of words around.

Thanks for building this!

Congrats, I liked your game and the level of polish you put into it.

My wife and I play nearly daily, it's become part of our routine. So much so that she's across the country visiting her family right now and we have done screen sharing calls to play Tiled Words. It's a really fun game, though the mechanics can sometimes be a little difficult (when I need to join two large halves of the puzzle but they need to be flipped).

Been playing daily since you last posted it on hn, great fun! For me Im a bit of an amatuer so the level is pretty nice, usually getting sub 5 mins or so.

A little feedback: clues which are cultural references can be pretty frustrating if you don't knw the reference. There have been some where even after piecing it together I've still got no idea how the answer matches the clue.

First time I see such a simple but attractive puzzle. I had to try to reproduce it using my Codorex tool, it's semi-functional needs a few more iterations:

https://codorex.com/shared/zIe6BrLCVfaPt1DuWm1DeyoMIIeTPyed

Congrats on the traction!

Thanks for this game, I've been playing it since you last posted it and it's become a regular in my morning brain wake-up routine of Minute Cryptic, Shuffalo at The New Yorker and a couple others, so I like the bite-size nature of it a lot.

My sister and I are glued to it, and she continues to destroy me, with consistent zero reveals and half the time to complete, as yours truly. We love this game. thanks.

My friend from work showed me this a couple of weeks ago, and now we all play it as a daily office ritual. Great game!

My wife and I play this every day. It's the only fault word games that has ever caught my interest.

The UI is fantastic too.

Just to let you know, my friend and I play this every day since I saw it here a little while back. Thank you!

I do a lot of word games (mostly crosswords.) This is great, congrats on launching!

I really enjoy tiled words, thanks for making this new addition to my daily routine!

I'm not really a puzzle fan generally but that is absolutely brilliant!

Have been enjoying it daily since I saw it on HN a few weeks ago. Great game!

Color scheme is a bit harsh for me. I understand you're going for EU colours, but maybe a softer background like #fcfcfc and a more muted blue would be easier on the eyes?

Great idea, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this initiative.

I believe that the main challenge would be to get more traction and build a community. Hope you find a way to encourage as many people as possible to join the website.

My very minor nitpick -- I would add some kind of background colour to the main post list, something like #FAFAFA looks fine to me.

Great idea, I'd appreciate an RSS feed

Ooh I like this! I love Hacker news and Lobsters but they're both very US centric, seem great to have a European one.

UI is very nice and simple, one tiny bit of feedback is that a 'guidelines' page would be worthwhile, especially while it's new! I thought I'd post my own project on the site - sometimes that's a little bit of a no-no though, and I couldn't find any guidelines to steer me towards what types of things to share, etc.

Edit: Tiny extra feedback, is upvoting something immediately changes the rankings in the browser. It's pretty impressive speedwise, but especially if you're a couple pages in, you can bump something off of the page you're on which makes it a little weird to do something like 'upvote article and then check the comments'.

I like to browse HN via "/front" and "Go back day" and then look at the couple of top posts for each day. I don't see such a day-by-day view on TPE.

What is the "official" acronym? TPE? TP? TecPeu?

What is language policy? (e.g. it would be nice if people would post any language they want, and the system shows other users what language the link is, and then offers an alternative link to a translated version. I imagine this would be hard to implement in a way that is robust way, but maybe you when user submit a link, they can set the language themselves)

First post:

> Show TP: TreatyHopper - Pay less taxes

> Treaty shopping is a tax strategy where companies route profits through intermediary countries with favorable tax treaties to minimize overall tax liability.

Can't make this up x)

The comment page here on mobile

https://techposts.eu/post/68

It shifts out of the screen on the left cutting off the comments. (The problem is probably how you deal with the long url or not deal with it)

I noticed that you’re using the favicon from Vercel, or that Vercel is using your icon. :))

Good work, but the headlines are still in „newspaper“ style and not in hacker news style

Great initiative. I was confused by the comment section design. The style of the metadata is not distinct enough from the real comment. And it tooks me too long to understand that the responses to comments were not citations.

How do you get users to your site? I always felt these products are the hardest to build, but probably the most rewarding ones.

If you could add API on top of it, and make it compatible with HN clients, it would be very nice!

Love to see EU specific. How do you get the jobs posts?

great! singuped! Just please - get rid of that all blue and underlined links. Its hell to read.

Site needs better UI without a doubt.

Copy HN UI as its. no one cares.

Good luck

Nice stuff! I'm keen to see this too.

I love programming in rust. Lots of non-rust developers think the whole point of rust is safety, but honestly, the things I like most about using it are the quality of life features like cargo. I love the idea of bringing that to C!

Relevant to this thread: I've spent the last week or so hand porting SeL4 from C to Rust, mostly so I can learn how it works (and learn OS development more generally). One of the biggest pain points I've had trying to use SeL4 is understanding the insanely complex way it uses cmake to compile the kernel and userland software. With Cargo, I can just run `cargo build` on my rust kernel project and it just works[1]. I don't even have a build.rs.

Anyway, I'd love it if we had a tool that made sel4 so easy to build. I doubt it'll be that simple, but its a lovely goal.

[1] (Well, except for one small step: You need to run objcopy to convert the 64 bit elf into a 32 bit elf to run it in qemu. But other than that!)

  spn_autoconf_t* ac = spn_autoconf_new(dep);
  spn_autoconf_add_flag(ac, "--disable-tcl");
  spn_autoconf_run(ac);
  spn_make(dep);

Sounds interesting and challenging. There's something similar, although not the build part just the modular aspect of it inspired by CPAN called CCAN: https://ccodearchive.net/. Very few people know about it, I believe, and it goes way back. I'm not involved with that project, though. Good luck!

Please post it here when it's ready! I'd absolutely be interested in seeing it.

Good luck! Building the next uv is certainly ambitious, but I love ambitious projects :)

I've used Conan briefly in the past for C++ and I quite liked it.

is it already in open source? I would like to see and test it. Share it here - on HN, when you will be ready

How is this different from bazel?

A liiiiiitle more info on the games from your homepage would be nice! Then I can see if it's something worth playing. Which I'm sure it is! Congrats!

Will try it today with the kids! I thought of doing something like this, but maybe something more related to DnD.

This is cool. It looks like it's possible for devs to add their own games, similar to Airconsole. What sets your platform apart?

Neat idea. What is the controller latency like when using a mobile phone?

Love this! Will give it a try

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Great art style, fun music.

I couldn't figure out the Boss fight with cards though. I run out of energy and so I assume my turn is over. But how do I end my turn?

A button guide in the main menu would be helpful.

I am obsessed with this - appreciating every tweak you've added! Keep up the good work - signed, JRM from the leaderboard.

It's a fun little game. I didn't like that dying makes you start from level 1 though.

Nice game. But the stars in the background were confusing and hard to distinguish between them and projectiles. That got me killed way too many times.

Congrats on your progress! This is pretty cool.

i wish i was that good at pixel art, it would be my sole hoby if i were

If anyone wants to try it out (the UI is a bit rough). I will try fix up any issues that are uncovered.

Congrats! 200 games IS A LOT.

I loved the 2000s vibes on the design too, so I appreciate it!

Love the idea! I was thinking it would be great if it could include a toggle that's kind of like the emotional version of selecting reverse y-axis in games (i.e. you can either push the controller up to look up, or push the controller up to look down) - you can either have the app show you tasks as how you see them. You could either use a view that has the more effortful/urgent ones in red, which may grow over time the longer you take to do them OR the tasks that cause you more anxiety to have a high blue capacity the moment you plug in the task and it reduces over time the longer you take to get to it. I guess my idea has a factor of procrastination that comes into play with the anxiety.

Feel like a Reddit bot, yet USCIS is "United States Customs and Immigration Services". The forms list that's probably of interest are found at:

https://www.uscis.gov/forms/all-forms

Had to read the wikipedia article on Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) to figure out what it was supposed to mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system

They compare it to timeshare systems, which seems horribly out of date (although apparently that's still kind of what occurs anyways on CPUs). What's the part that's "Real Time" relative to anything else people do with Cortex processors? The preemptive part? Not trying to be critical, just not getting the real time part. Does it not share CPU resources among tasks? Get a fixed core per task or something? Minimal interrupts and minimal thread switching?

you could probably fast-track this with meditation if you aren't already

Putting it in my bookmarks

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What’s the name of your localized history app? I’d love to contribute for my little town.

What a wonderful project the Leihbar is! My local MakerSpace has something similar, but it’s pretty unofficial, you just have to announce what you’ve taken in a public chat.

I’ve often had the problem that I’ve needed a tool and borrowing it from Obi or similar cost more than half the price of a new one so I just bought a variant from Parkside for cheaper or similar price. Keep up the good work!

An interesting twist on this, would be to hold the used item while "paying" for it with a collateral. It would remove the need to have an owner to which the item must return to, allowing it to behave more like a linked list, reducing the amoutn of trips by two.

I also think that for taxeable purposes this would work better than buying and selling used items, especially in countries with gross income taxes. In the rest of the cases at least it would reduce the administrative burden to prove that ones net-income or value-add was marginal or negative.

Probably work for a lot of normal libraries.

Here's a picture of the books we have and a couple of preview pages. You can put yourself on the reserve list. Tell you how long the current borrower, or the current "candidate for borrowing" has had the item, or had the possibility of borrowing.

The blue light “science” is a fallacy. I think N=8 in the original study and the difference in sleep was about 15 mins.

Very cool, what’s the temperature range/wavelengths? (good idea to specify it on the product page - otherwise it’s unclear how is it different from other lightbulbs)

Is it possible for the bulb to gradually lose brightness as the night goes on? The default of a light bulb being as strong as 4am as it is at 1am is certainly simple, but does not make for a good nighttime experience.

I can't tell how you allow the small shops to make instant-quotes. Is it because they can instantly visualize the part? Or do you process the customer's design and provide the shop additional information that helps them do this? Or are you just generating the final quote itself already based on what you know about the shop and the customer design?

This sounds interesting. Are you using any CAD software for this? Can the fabricator create their own design?

okay, easiest branding ever: “quick! go fetch The Irwin!”