Hacker News with Generative AI: Personal Projects

Technicality (greenend.org.uk)
Technicality is my own personal scalable font, which I use in all my terminal windows and text editors on Linux.
Fonts, Linux, Terminal, Text Editors, Personal Projects
12 points by theunamedguy 8 days ago | 0 comments
Get Out of My Head (getoutofmyhead.dev)
Web Development, Personal Projects
52 points by edent 10 days ago | 24 comments
Four Years of Jai (2024) (smarimccarthy.is)
I’ve been programming for long enough to be righteously cantankerous about a lot of things. The list of languages, frameworks and libraries I’ve worked with professionally or on personal projects is too long to list – but it includes everything from C and assembly languages through C++, Pascal and Delphi, through Java and Clojure, through Perl, PHP, Python, Javascript, Typescript and so on. I’ve tinkered with Rust, APL, Uiua, Erlang and Haskell. I’ve been around the block a few times.
Programming Languages, Software Development, Personal Projects, Opinions, Reflections
164 points by xixixao 10 days ago | 234 comments
Like cursor, but for blogging: a weekend project (maximepeabody.com)
Recently, I've started writing a blog on my personal website, on topics related to AI.
Blogging, AI, Web Development, Personal Projects
38 points by peab 18 days ago | 54 comments
It would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own (substack.com)
Traffic, Infrastructure, DIY, Personal Projects, Humor
58 points by sebg 19 days ago | 45 comments
A Firefox addon for putting prices into perspective (drewdevault.com)
I had a fun idea for a small project this weekend, and so I quickly put it together over the couple of days. The result is Price Perspective.
Firefox Addons, Web Browsing, Productivity Tools, Personal Projects
9 points by Tomte 22 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app (recipeninja.ai)
Web Development, Software, Personal Projects, Recipes
126 points by tomblomfield 24 days ago | 242 comments
The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (xeiaso.net)
Making sure you're not a bot!
Homelab, Technology, Personal Projects, Hobby
17 points by xena 32 days ago | 2 comments
Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021) (andregarzia.com)
Lua is one of my favourite programming languages. I’ve used it to build a CMS for my old educational website, for creating cool IoT hardware projects, for building little games, and experimenting with network decentralisation. Still, I don’t consider myself an expert on it at all, I am at most a somewhat competent user.
Programming Languages, Lua, Personal Projects, Software Development
59 points by soapdog 33 days ago | 9 comments
And all I got was this lousy embedded player (dayvonjersen.com)
Ever since launching in March 2024, I’ve often referred to working on the project as “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic”. Well after a year of full-time work in a Michelin starred kitchen and completely ignoring anything to do with the site I can tell you with confidence that the Titanic is now firmly resting on the bottom of the ocean.
Web Development, Personal Projects, Frustration
4 points by dayvonjersen 34 days ago | 2 comments
A.I. and Vibecoding Helped Me to Create My Own Software (nytimes.com)
I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Programming, Personal Projects, Technology
17 points by edward 37 days ago | 0 comments
Scoping a Local-First Image Archive (scottishstoater.com)
For years, I’ve been thinking about how we store and access our digital files, especially photos.
Data Storage, Photography, Personal Projects
31 points by stog 38 days ago | 13 comments
Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder (brainsteam.co.uk)
In this day and age, what with gestures at everything it’s important to preserve and record information that may be removed from the internet, lost or forgotten. I’ve recently been using Hoarder to create a self-hosted personal archive of web content that I’ve found interesting or useful. Hoarder is an open source project that runs on your own server and allows you to search, filter and tag web content.
Web Archiving, Open Source, Personal Projects, Software
152 points by edward 41 days ago | 21 comments
Shopkeeper (robinsloan.com)
Retail, Web Design, Personal Projects
46 points by herbertl 41 days ago | 2 comments
I Recreated Photoshop in C++ (f055.net)
As I’m getting older I look back on all the things I’ve done as a creative developer, and I see so many cool projects! But I never wrote down any development stories, and most of these projects, even as successful when released, got lost in time as years go by. That’s why I’m starting my new posts series „That time I” where I look back on my most interesting projects.
Programming, Software, C++, Personal Projects, Retrospectives
5 points by todsacerdoti 43 days ago | 1 comments
I got bored and rebuilt Vercel (with Fluid Compute) (krish.gg)
Recently, I've been looking for a challenge in the web world out of boredom. While working on my personal site, a curious thought popped into my head - How does Vercel work? I mean, someone had to actually go build the platform I use to build my projects. That thought sparked off hours of research and wrangling infrastructure.
Web Development, Open Source, Personal Projects, Cloud Computing
32 points by KrishKrish 44 days ago | 1 comments
I stopped everything and started writing C again (kmx.io)
I've been a good student for 5 years at a French computer school. I've been a good freelance developer for 20 years. I've used Ruby on Rails exclusively however never writing my own code always for clients.
Programming Languages, C, Personal Projects, Software Development
404 points by dvrj101 45 days ago | 454 comments
The Balatro Timeline (localthunk.com)
It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey.
Personal Projects, Software Development, Timelines
72 points by mxfh 50 days ago | 5 comments
My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024) (fangpenlin.com)
I am a big believer in building products for your needs, eating your own dog food, and finding customers with the same needs. Therefore, I started building BeanHub. Three years later, my Beancount books are 95% automatic, and I am a very happy user of my product. It’s hard to describe; as a computer nerd obsessed with automation, seeing my accounting book updating itself without me touching it in an open format brings me pure joy 😍
Automation, Software, Finance, Personal Projects
229 points by leonry 52 days ago | 97 comments
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025) (ycombinator.com)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Community, Software Development, Personal Projects
261 points by david927 61 days ago | 902 comments
Show HN: TimeRetain – A browser-based personal time tracker, no sign-up needed (timeretain.com)
TimeRetain is for you: Employee. Business owner. Student.
Time Tracking, Web Apps, Productivity, Personal Projects
61 points by heresjohnny 68 days ago | 27 comments
My Life in Weeks (ginatrapani.org)
👋 Hi, I’m Gina. This is a map of my life, where each week I’ve been alive is a little box. Tap a box to see what I was doing where that week.
Life Mapping, Personal Projects, Visualizations
984 points by bookofjoe 70 days ago | 262 comments
Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I was bored (jotalea.com.ar)
Operating Systems, Programming, Personal Projects
224 points by Jotalea 73 days ago | 86 comments
No Longer Posting to Pinboard (gyford.com)
I’ll no longer be adding new links/bookmarks to my Pinboard account but will continue to add them to my own site.
Social Media, Web Development, Personal Projects
51 points by slater 73 days ago | 86 comments
No longer writing my own damn HTML (claytonwramsey.com)
I’ve (mostly) given up on hand-writing HTML for my personal blog.
Web Development, Blogging, Personal Projects
86 points by claytonwramsey 73 days ago | 93 comments
Thinkserver: My web-based coding environment (checkmyworking.com)
I've made my own web-based coding environment for working on little projects.
Web Development, Coding Environments, Personal Projects
241 points by ColinWright 75 days ago | 67 comments
Personal Software Is Becoming a Trend (xuanwo.io)
I've come across some posts about personal software recently. Lee Robinson calls it "Personal Software," whereas Edmar Ferreira refers to it as "Selfish Software." Lee emphasizes the personal aspect, focusing on how it meets one's own needs, while Edmar wants to highlight that it's "selfish," created without external customers in mind. The common thread is that both are discussing the idea of building software for oneself.
Software Development, Trends, Personal Projects, Self-Development
42 points by xuanwo 78 days ago | 28 comments
Building an "Easy" Web Application (rudyfaile.com)
I decided to spend my Fourth of July weekend transforming a small Python utility I wrote a couple of years ago for work. The idea was simple: make the tool more accessible for co-workers who use it by turning it into a web application.
Web Development, Python, Software Development, Personal Projects
78 points by luu 78 days ago | 42 comments
I coded a Pascal compiler for transputer as a teen in 1993 (nanochess.org)
Once upon a time when I was a teen, I wrote an almost full Pascal compiler for a transputer processor (the FILE type wasn't never completed). The Pascal language was designed in 1971 by Niklaus Wirth, as an educative version of the language Algol, which dates from 1960. It reached its highest popularity with Turbo Pascal and Delphi from Borland. Borland was founded by Philippe Kahn, who studied Pascal with Wirth.
Programming Languages, Retro Computing, Personal Projects
180 points by nanochess 80 days ago | 63 comments
Build a link blog like Simon Willison (xuanwo.io)
I decided to follow simon's approach to creating a link blog, where I can share interesting links I find on the internet along with my own comments and thoughts about them.
Web Development, Blogging, Productivity, Personal Projects
236 points by xuanwo 81 days ago | 54 comments