A very simple idea: when you eat more than your maintenance calories, you gain weight; when you eat less than your maintenance calories, you lose weight.
By using an algorithm, we can accurately figure out your maintenance calories more accurately than traditional regression based formulas like katch mc ardle.
It's way more accurate than calorie burn tracking devices like fitness bands and watches. (garmin/apple watch etc...)
MacroCodex helps you spot dips in maintenance calories from metabolic adaptation, then auto adjusts your calorie target and macros so your plan stays aligned with your real maintenance calories (TDEE).
It's very useful to those who find it hard to gain or lose weight.
it's a completely free app, no paywall, no unnecessary data collection.
Already reached 13,000+ users
In the UK alone, around 7.2 million people have asthma. Globally, WHO estimates that asthma affected 363 million people in 2023 and caused 442,000 deaths.
Peak Flow Meter Diary is not meant to detect every possible trigger. It will not warn you if someone suddenly sprays perfume nearby, or if a dusty bag is opened in the same room. But it could help with risks that can realistically be monitored ahead of time, such as weather, pollen, pollution, cold air, storms, and similar factors. The aim is to make daily tracking easier, show simple visual warnings and notifications, and make it easier to share useful records with clinicians.
I’m also trying to build it in a way that reduces paper, plastic, and electronic waste. If funding allows, I would like to make the project carbon-negative.
That is the bigger dream: to make a small example of how even modest start-up can think about environmental impact from the start, and use it as a practical showcase.
The pitch and full project explanation are here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/why5/peak-flow-meter-di...
Feedback welcome, especially from anyone with asthma, clinicians, carers, or people who have worked on health tracking tools. By now I know that my kickstarter is not going anywhere, so I would value any input was the idea that bad, or lack of marketing and accessing appropriate groups etc. I think this community has a lot of experience so I would like someone to share what could have I done better. Do not be shy to tell me if you think idea was waste of time.
Although the goal is to build an efficient all-in-one-workspace, I wouldn't run a company on it just yet. Right now I'm looking for early adopters who don't mind the rough edges and relatively minimal feature set.
You can grab an early build at https://alpha.totemkb.com.
New workspaces will be in a 14-day 'trial' mode, email rohit@totemkb.com if you'd like me to upgrade your workspace free of charge.
It sends me an email once a story hits a certain number of upvotes per minute, so it's useful for keeping track of breaking news.
It'll also soon allow you to get alerted to specific words or phrases in titles. (I have one set up so the monthly hiring threads notify me as soon as they appear.)
So do you get one email per-story that fits this criteria? Or is it some kind of roll-up?
It checks every 5 minutes, and if more than one story happens to meet the criteria during that 5 minute bucket then it'll put them into one email (so the "hiring" checks appear in one email). But in reality because it's rare that 2 stories will trend within the same 5 minute bucket it ends up being one email per story.
Wrote up more details at https://openrun.dev/blog/service-binding/
Here's a live example of it figuring out when to post on HN: https://kavla.dev/hn (spoiler, its noon UTC on Sundays)
And here's it generating an interactive map of 20000 earthquakes: https://kavla.dev/quakes
I feel like the canvas is actually a great way to interact with an agent, everything it does is visible, so auditing what it did is (relatively) easy.
I still got some credits to burn so agent usage is free atm (you still have to sign up to use it though)
I sometimes need to have a quick but realistic model of an optical system without paying a few thousand for some of the well known commercial offerings, so I've been building this.
It's not signed yet, but I have included the results of a Hybrid-Analysis scan and I am verified by Lemon Squeezy for the full version.
My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU.
Last month we launched image search (got out of beta this month), added our own index and crawler (via Uruky Site Search [2]), and reached 100 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 150 now)! You can also see a privacy-focused independent blogger wrote about us [3]!!
You can check out the main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you can download a copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!
You can also now get a free trial for 2 hours when you signup if you pass a proof-of-work captcha (another suggestion made here on HN, and it uses a local Altcha).
Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications.
Feature-wise, for June we’ve already added a ton of personalization and privacy-increasing features like URL rewrites, cash-by-mail payments, and anonymous vouchers! Upcoming is partnering with ProxyStore to sell vouchers (we’re currently in talks for this), so you can buy vouchers with XMR/Monero or other cryptocurrencies. Then we’ll be looking into increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web.
Thank you for your kindness!
[1]: https://uruky.com
[2]: https://uruky.com/site-search
[3]: https://theprivacydad.com/interview-with-the-engineer-of-uru...
Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?
still very early and im trying to keep it very affordable, since the whole point is I dont want people wasting their money on hustles that were never legit
There’s a Unix CLI tool that implements an accurate version of this… check out /bin/yes.
CRM with agent baked in that can properly do stuff. No idea why attio/twenty are soooo bad at this. It's a table. getcrme.com / https://github.com/ChristianSch/crme
and gargoyle, an activitypub server with a (theoretically mastodon compatible UI) https://github.com/myfedi/gargoyle. Was annoyed at the homogenous fediverse dev teams out there that don't want their precious service federate with others. I want more federation (tested it with bookwyrms and lemmy for now. Mastodon/GTS also working ofc) and a pretty UI and not waste time with weird identity politics. You do you. I want an open fediverse, not a filter bubble. And GTS was too hard to hack on.
Website: https://www.asfaload.com/
https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids
We also teach kids visual scripting in Overcooked 2!, allowing kids to code their way through the levels of an existing much beloved game:
I'm running an in school pilot this week (Lunch time school club).
The tech stack for the main product is honestly pretty intense at this point with full multiplayer support, offline play, transitioning from client authoritative to joining a remote server. Built atop GodotJS, TypeScript bindings for Godot, which I maintain. Huge monorepo with over a million lines (yes, I'm aware that's NOT a good thing), and GodotJS itself is not included in that.
The idea is simple: Its handle of the complexity for AIOps infra like GPU VM provisioning, NVIDIA driver setup, Docker setup, model download, and launching the inference server. User can run any OSS and AI tools inside their cloud.
website + video demo: https://www.dagploy.com github : https://github.com/dagploy/dax
The project is currently 100% vibe coded with codex\gpt-5.5, but after running some experiments, I'm working on replacing some of the vibe coded SQL engine with Apache Calcite.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
Deliberately no ads, no subscription, no tracking, works offline.
i've massively improved a bunch of things like the AI filter, which now gives you the option of filtering out github repos with AI authorship.
Also improved comments, which I'm serving through my own backend which has made loading of comments super fast, and it's going to be the foundation for some really great other features coming soon.
Soon: HN feature parity via browser extension and sync'd accounts.
It let's developer do test planning and testing automation using their coding agents. The records of the testing sessions are then shareable and can be added to PRs, giving the reviewers visibility into how the feature works, what scenarios are handled and tested and what might have been missed.
• A visual moodboard and notes app that uses local models to link and surface content, a bit like an AI powered Memex.
• A new UI design tool for Mac/iOS with deep support for design systems and AI agents.
• A CMS and static site generator that runs entirely in the browser. Download the site as a zip or publish directly to GitHub/Netlify.
I made Docker not suck for large images. 2-10x faster depending on the operation. I’ve spent the past two weeks burning down the last bits needed to release a BuildKit integration.
In the last month or so I added a few nifty features:
- Auto-scan functionality: Instead of having to click on cards to discover what they are, I can now do whole-frame detection on an interval (configurable), so players can mouse over the webcam stream of another player and automatically see what the actual card is. Super helpful for deciding who to attack and makes turns quicker!
- Card view is now grouped by player, since auto-detection will populate a lot of cards during the course of a game.
- Switch the video stream to Livekit from my homebrew version. Players were having video trouble and I hope Livekit is good enough so solve that problem.
Next up: I really want to build a community around this, and I'm struggling on getting the word out to people / having them try it out. I've done some SEO and word of mouth advertising, but haven't had much luck. I feel like I need to switch directions a bit. I'm a developer by trade, so this is wholly new to me.
Come check it out: https://cardcast.gg
The thing Im most proud of though is just the viewer, its designed to just open all the images and videos in a folder, and then there is no UI except a right click context menu, the list is a grid or a masonry layout that uses 100% of the space for the images/video so you can just navigate them. It adds anything you open to a local sqlite db so you can tag things if you want optionally. Also control modes that make sense for either a mouse or a laptop trackpad.
It's still early days, but I have a demo running. Unfortunately, it requires using a drop-in replacement library for CoreLocation. That alone may make it infeasible.
https://www.agentkanban.io - Github Copilot / Claude Code integrated Kanban board with context management
https://www.asmusictheory.com - Music Theory lessons, tools, including piano roll with midi in the web browser
unfortunately, I did not have the time to pursue them. good luck to you!
I’m making a baby book for my son Henri featuring famous Henri’s through history.
I’m also building a zigbee free/busy eink display that only needs to powered once a year or so
C++/python/networking/systems/web developer for 30 years with plenty of free time
It takes your instructions, write a versioned spec, then generates a hybrid workflow of code+LLM calls and protects it with tests/evals
The result is that the agents run much faster (90% of it is code), cheaper (LLM steps are scoped tightly and uses smaller models) and reliably (specs get turned into coded state-machine)
As it's open source and built with a codebase that's easy for LLM's to work with, users can download it and tailor it to their business/operational requirements, although it also has out of the box 'industry best practice processes' so you don't have to reinvent the wheel and can only focus on writing the 10% custom stuff which differentiates your business.
As all the processes are flexible, you can also do proper 'continuous improvement' with your staff - something traditional WMS products struggle with.
No link because I'm finalising it at the moment, but if you are interested please reply!
After 1.5 years of development and two exhausting pivots, I’m incredibly happy to finally have our v1 live!
While most of the HR tech is rushing to use black-box AI, I built the exact opposite. It's a transparent, math-driven fitness engine. It extracts objective data from CVs and calculates how well applicants match requirements, letting you see the reasoning behind why someone scored an X%.
If anyone here builds in the HR space or regularly hires engineers, I would absolutely love your feedback or a roast of the landing page.
PS This is a project of immense importance for me, I've been working on for past ~2 years, I'd appreciate to know why this comment is flagged.
also matching requirements should be secondary to experience. someone who has done a few react websites will not be as qualified for your react job as someone that has done 10 years of angular and vue and can learn react in a short time.
Crossed over 100K MRR and I'm shooting for 2M ARR by the end of the year. Growing something in this stage is totally different from making it go from zero to one so it's an interesting learning curve. AI has also changed the calculus as well where it seems less crazy to try and do this sort of thing. Time will tell!
Re-reading the Lean Startup to hone our GTM, market validation and growth engine.
(mathbreakers.com)
Most recently I was also probing people about how they conceptualize of the soul, making my own drawings, and asking others for drawings. If you have a few minutes I would also be interested in seeing how you would draw a soul, given pen and paper or equivalent materials. It often feels like for a lot of people the concept of the soul gets comingled with very confusing definitions.
There's a general problem where certain concepts become so overloaded that just disambiguating and clarifying what is meant becomes a challenge. I will note that if your first thought or question is whether the soul is even real, you might be confused about the definition or we might be referring to different concepts.
Not technically released even though the site is live, but close enough to a beta at this point.
Strictly human content, pagination instead of endless feeds, one-off payments instead of subscriptions, linear feed by default, public profile scoring instead of secretive algorithms.
Hope to share it soon around here, too.
There is a couple of semi-unique features; you can use your voice to dictate and generate events (feeding, sleep etc), you can also scan documents for growth measurements.
You don't need user account to use it, there is no subscription, the paid features are available behind a single purchase for lifetime. Still, like 90% of the features are available for free.
Also https://www.athilio.com/ privacy focused, highly customisable personal data analytics for your Oura, Garmin, Polar and Apple Health (ios port coming soon). Of course there is couple of AI features (with a single switch to turn all off), originally those were built just so I would learn how to embed agents in sw products myself. The whole app was originally built for personal use to fix missing features in the manufacturers own platforms: - Period over period comparisons (this month vs this month last year) - Comparing different metrics - Customizable graphs and other widgets - And of course combining the manufacturers metrics (oura for sleep, garmin for training etc etc) Existing solutions for this kind of software seem to have focus on social (strava), or coaching (training peaks), or they are just straight up crazy expensive with their paid tier (both tp and strava for example).
> Guild manager for my MMORPG guilds with Discord integration
Providing sandboxes through a CLI. Guardrails such as egress control and secret injection and audit trails built in.
We can also be used as 3rd party sandboxes in Anthropic managed agent and OpenAI sdk.
https://instavm.io/blog/self-hosting-claude-managed-agents-o...
The idea is to make querying ClickHouse feel more like using a polished desktop with ClickHouse native features :
It’s built in Swift/SwiftUI with Monaco as the SQL editor.
Screenshot: https://ibb.co/gbW4rW7G
I also made Computer Engineering for Babies which I've posted about on here a couple times before.
I checked my analytics recently and over 100 people have 100+ day streaks which kind of blows my mind!
I released custom player puzzles which has been a lot of fun! I’ve gotten dozens of submissions that I’m working through. People are submitting really clever and interesting puzzles. It’s fun to get to solve puzzles I didn’t make myself! There’s more I want to do here (featured puzzles, categories, etc.)
https://tiledwords.com/player-puzzles/page/1
I think I’ve also tracked down an issue that was causing the game to crash on older iPhones. I’m having playtesters run through it now and hope to deploy tomorrow. (Switching some positioning rules from CSS transforms to SVG coordinates)
I recently made some puzzle brainstorming tools using the Datamuse API which have been very helpful for brainstorming words related to a theme.
I’m starting to debate some monetized features. So far everything is free but it would be nice if my wife and I could dedicate more time to this. If I could get a few thousand dollars a month in subscriptions my wife could quit her job and focus more on puzzle creation and improving the game. If you play and have ideas for features you pay for I’d love to hear them!
An open source audio interface along the lines of a Scarlett 2i2.
You play a duck in a small shared town. You pick a job, pay rent, post on a Twitter-style feed, vote in local elections. The simulation keeps running when you close the tab. No PvP, no loot boxes, no combat. Playtime is a few minutes a day by design.
However what happens when you actually build and launch your agent is customers try it, do some initial runs and then go ask your manager to automate their use case. That is why I have been building https://toolscaled.com/ The goal being work through your problem space using agentic chat (like Claude Desktop) and then at the end convert it to a workflow. I am pretty close to launching and have been testing. If you're interested send me an email! (if you do sign up just fyi its still in beta so YMMV.
tsz is my main side project. Trying to learn from this for how to make software in fully automated fashion. tsz's goal is to match tsc (tsgo) but perform better. I am not passing all tsc's own test cases and working towards making it work on complex type packages.
- No sign-up required & no ads
- Live PDF preview & instant download
- Flexible tax support (VAT, Sales Tax, etc.)
- Fully customizable invoice templates
- 120+ currencies & multi-language support
- 100% In-Browser
It creates its own copy of your workdir for the agent to play in, and then you pull changes out ala git diffs or commits.
$ yoloai new mybugfix . -a # launch default sandbox in . and also attach the terminal
# Work with the agent...
$ yoloai diff mybugfix # See what it did
$ yoloai apply mybugfix # Bring out commits and/or uncommitted changes.
$ yoloai destroy mybugfix
And it's FOSS: https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloaiIt provides digital loyalty cards for cafés (think of an electronic version of paper stamp cards). However with zero apps or customer signup, instead loyalty passes go straight into Apple and Google wallets.
It’s written in Ruby on Rails, which I’m enjoying learning. Still a bit rough around the edges, though it’s free for now so I’d be grateful for your feedback.
Thanks!
if you have built coding agent in the past using mastra, what are the problems you have faced with mastra? does it support complex branching/context trimming and other features required to efficiently manage context for AI agents?
Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides offline result previews, a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore saved content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines.
I've been using it for a few months and as my local index is growing I can avoid opening google/duckduckgo/kagi - and even websites listed in results - more and more frequently.
The initial reception is overwhelmingly positive with already more than 30 contributors and hundreds of contributions - perhaps you can find it useful as well. (Or at least have some constructive criticism =])
GitHub: https://github.com/asciimoo/hister
Website: https://hister.org/
Small read-only demo: https://demo.hister.org/
TUI based interface to search in your files very quickly. I created it from the need to have an equivalent of voidtool's Everything on Linux. It's a bit different though because it's keyboard based. You define zones where you search for files most of the time, and you can manage previous files history. Then there are actions you can perform on each file/folder.
I'm currently working on modeling energy, climate and new policies like universal basic income
https://logging24.com/landing_a/
The basic idea is to make Regex-scans so fast/cheap that "a metric" can be anything numeric in the text and "tracing" is useless because you can just log (and filter) more things. Turns out Regex at >200GB/s solves a lot of problems.
Metric cardinality explosion is immediately a non-issue, histograms have arbitrary resolution, and you can get from histogram pixels back to the underlying logs. And no need to instrument everything thrice for logs, metrics and traces.
The next big feature I'm aiming for is needle-in-a-haystack searches. The data block headers support it already, but the scan engine doesn't yet use it.
We are in the process of writing our own vertical stack with Go to control the machine instead of expensive and handicapped solutions from Siemens and etc.
indiesecurity.com
And been working on a Mario-with-guns game concept: http://devz.cl/posts/what-if-mario-had-a-gun/
Thought it’d be a short concept to get from start to finish but the things you need to implement and plan for in a video game can be near infinite and decision paralysis is a real problem for me.
The idea is decompile something like Wordperfect or Framemaker, then port the NeXTStep code to GNUStep and have WP on GNUStep/Linux.
We're a collaborative canvas + context engine for all the code and docs in your company, with a zoomable UI + CLI , where you can collaborate with your co-workers and agents.
We map technical debt, agent readiness, code complexity, security scanning, bus factor and more, so you can easily see how all the software in your company runs.
One of the most complex things is our incremental git blame engine built on top of GitOxide, as our backend is fully built on Rust. Our frontend is built on PixiJS so you can explore at gaming speed with 60Hz refresh rates.
Recently we sponsored Rust Week in Europe and a hundred or so developers tried our mini-game which is GeoGuessr for code, and got rave reviews. Future is looking bright!
Mostly I wanted more art and colour in my workday - something to look at, learn through and draw inspiration from in the moments between meetings and code. You can create an account to save your favourites and curate your own gallery. Just released collections that you can make public.
Art from:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
- A hand-crafted browser game-engine and game for the engine, with things like determinism at the core. I will be launching soon and can't talk too much about it yet because its quite novel. It actually has quite a few novel ideas within. Very minimal usage of AI in this project, I've been working on it for ~6 years now. A bit toooo long.
- A pure slop-crafted browser extension, because I paid for claude code Fable and it got rug-pulled so I am burning my tokens on a 100% slop project just to see what hands-off coding is actually like. A slight distraction from project 1 I do when I'm feeling a bit burnt out. Super fun so far proc-gen type stuff. Derivative
hack music
And on a new post about how to design web apps for the AI-era for my blog: https://mliezun.com
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