Hacker News with Generative AI: Personal Projects

That fractal that's been up on my wall for years (chriskw.xyz)
I spent a lot of time doodling in middle school in lieu of whatever it is middle schoolers are supposed to be doing. Somewhere between the Cool S’s and Penrose triangles I stumbled upon a neat way to fill up graph paper by repeatedly combining and copying squares. I suspected there was more to the doodle but wasn’t quite sure how to analyze it.
Art, Geometry, Personal Projects
476 points by chriskw 22 hours ago | 34 comments
Planetfall (wordpress.com)
Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I am very pleased to share it with you.
Side Projects, Personal Projects, Blogging
332 points by milliams 1 day ago | 96 comments
Ask HN: How do you promote your personal projects with a limited budget? (ycombinator.com)
Marketing, Personal Projects, Budgets, Entrepreneurship, Startups
121 points by javafactory 2 days ago | 86 comments
Side projects I've built since 2009 (naeemnur.com)
I’ve been building side projects since 2009. Some got sold, some are still online, and a few quietly disappeared. This page is where I keep track of everything I’ve built over the years.
Side Projects, Personal Projects, Web Development, Software Development, Entrepreneurship
258 points by naeemnur 4 days ago | 142 comments
Building my childhood dream PC (fabiensanglard.net)
In 1993, I was 14 and already passionate about computers[1]. That year my mother managed to buy a PC for the household. That was quite an effort for a single mother. My brother Aurelien and I spent every waking hour on this machine, staying up all night on weekends.
Personal Projects, Nostalgia, Computing
188 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 86 comments
Lightfriend.ai – I built a way to live with a dumbphone (lightfriend.ai)
Smartphones, Minimalism, Technology, Personal Projects
10 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 1 comments
Vibe-coded a professional C99 compiler with a broken hand (then threw it away) (reddit.com)
Programming, C Programming, Personal Projects, Humor
17 points by jgarzik 6 days ago | 2 comments
Creating a static website for all my bookmarks (alexwlchan.net)
I’m storing more and more of my data as static websites, and about a year ago I switched to using a local, static site to manage my bookmarks. It’s replaced Pinboard as the way I track interesting links and cool web pages. I save articles I’ve read, talks I’ve watched, fanfiction I’ve enjoyed.
Web Development, Static Sites, Bookmarks, Personal Projects
47 points by paulcapewell 11 days ago | 6 comments
My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer (gill.net.in)
It began with a spark—a dormant passion reignited after many years away from motorcycling.
Motorcycle Safety, Personal Projects, Personal Experiences
313 points by mygnu 16 days ago | 379 comments
Determining favorite t-shirt color using science (ostwilkens.se)
I'm looking to simplify my wardrobe, and the t-shirt is a staple. I like solid color t-shirts, and so the main differentiating factor is the color. But what color? There is only one way to find out. That is: create images of myself with different colored t-shirts, and evaluate them in an ELO-based arena.
Science, Fashion, Data Analysis, Personal Projects
16 points by KomoD 20 days ago | 7 comments
Searching for outliers (2022) (benkuhn.net)
Shortly after I started blogging, because I was a college student and had nothing better to do, I set a goal to write every week.
Personal Projects, Blogging, Productivity
6 points by kugurerdem 21 days ago | 0 comments
I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth (ratfactor.com)
I finally learned SNOBOL!
Programming Languages, Retrocomputing, Software Development, Personal Projects
9 points by a4isms 21 days ago | 1 comments
My new Raspberry Pi Zero web server (paulcapewell.com)
Had a lovely sunny weekend of first birthday parties (three of them!) in the park and some gardening. But I've also been metaphorically squirrelled away working on a little project I've been semi wanting to do for years now: set up a self hosted web server.
Raspberry Pi, Web Servers, Personal Projects
6 points by speckx 25 days ago | 1 comments
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 35 days ago | 0 comments
Get Out of My Head (getoutofmyhead.dev)
Web Development, Personal Projects
53 points by edent 37 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
166 points by xixixao 38 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 46 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 46 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 49 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 51 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 59 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 60 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 61 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 65 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 65 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 68 days ago | 21 comments
Shopkeeper (robinsloan.com)
Retail, Web Design, Personal Projects
46 points by herbertl 69 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 70 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 71 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 72 days ago | 454 comments