Ideas Lab

Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI

Issue trackers typically live outside of your workflow, with poor ergonomics. Epiq aims to solve that, bringing issue tracking into your terminal. Multi-user collaboration is achieved via git using user-scoped immutable event logs that converge in memory. Put my all into it. Let me know what you think.

Hacker News4mo agoToolAI

An index of indie web/blog indexes

I saw a comment here about how there are so many indexes of indie sites, blogs, etc but there wasn't an index of all the indexes. So I built it. It doesn't require a log in, just go browse! I've curated about 30 or so, but there is a submission form if there are ones I am missing.Also happy to take UI improvements because I am not great in that area!

Hacker News4mo agoToolDesign & Creative

55FL score

Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows

Hacker News4mo agoToolProductivity

We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

I know what you're thinking... and I still can't believe it, but...This morning, our database flagged a duplicate UUID (v4). I checked, thinking it may have been a double-insert bug or something, but no.The original UUID was from a record added in 2025 (about a year ago), and today the system inserted a new document with a fresh UUIDv4 and it came up with the exact same one:b6133fd6-70fe-4fe3-bed6-8ca8fc9386cdWe're using this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uuidI thought this is technically impossible, and it will never happen, and since we're not modifying the UUIDs in any way, I really wonder how that.... is possible!? We're literally only calling:import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";const document_id = uuidv4();... and then insert into the database, that's it.Additionally, the database only has about 15.000 records, and now one collision. Statistically... impossible.Has that ever happened to anyone?! What in the...

Hacker News4mo agoArticleDesign & Creative

20FL score

Running the second public ODoH relay

Every privacy-focused DNS service requires an account: NextDNS, Cloudflare for Families, Apple's iCloud Private Relay (paid, iOS-only). The protocol that doesn’t require one - ODoH - had basically one well-known public relay operator (Frank Denis on Fastly Compute, default in dnscrypt-proxy). I built a second one and the client to talk to it.

Hacker News4mo agoToolAI

GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management

I'm a Type 1 diabetic and software engineer. Last year I went months between endocrinologists with no clinician reviewing my data. I'm an engineer, so I built the tool I needed — and now I'm open sourcing it. GlycemicGPT is a self-hosted platform that connects continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and existing Nightscout instances to an AI analysis layer running on your own infrastructure. Data sources:Dexcom G7 (cloud API) Tandem t:slim X2 and Mobi pumps (direct BLE) Nightscout (point it at your existing instance and you're running in minutes)What the AI layer does:Daily briefs summarizing overnight and 24-hour patterns Meal response analysis Conversational chat with RAG-backed clinical knowledge Predictive alerting with configurable thresholds and caregiver escalationImportant: this is monitoring and analysis only. GlycemicGPT does not deliver insulin, does not control your pump, and is not a closed-loop system. It reads your data and gives you insight on top of it. Your clinical decisions stay between you and your care team. Architecture:Self-hosted via Docker or K8S — the GlycemicGPT stack runs entirely on your hardware BYOAI — bring your own AI provider. Use Ollama for fully local operation (no data leaves your hardware), or point it at Claude, OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint if you prefer a hosted model. Data flows directly from your instance to the provider you choose; nothing is routed through any centralized service operated by the project. GPL-3.0, no subscriptions, no vendor lock-inStack:Backend API: FastAPI, Python 3.12, PostgreSQL 16, Redis 7 Web Dashboard: Next.js 15, React 19, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui AI Sidecar: TypeScript, Express, multi-provider proxy Android App: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, BLE Wear OS: Kotlin, Wear Compose, Watch Face Push API Plugin SDK: Kotlin interfaces, capability-based, sandboxedLooking for contributors — especially folks with BLE/Android experience or anyone in the diabetes tech spa

Hacker News4mo agoToolAI

BUILD

85FL score

Ableton Live MCP

Ever wanted to control Ableton with just your voice? Me too! I made this MCP server so I could just ask Codex to do anything in Ableton Live for me, while I was nap-trapped by my baby.The chat messages I sent to Codex to make this:in ableton, make a self reflective song, with audio vocals (via macos say) and chip tunes and 80's drum machines. should be a real edm bangeri want midi for everything but vocals please, with ableton devices. not prerendered audio for instrumentsneeds some fillsand should hit way harder after "3-2-1 i become the sound"the vocals are squished too much (read too quickly), give them a little more lengthadd some dynamics, the song is basically one volume. and some pumping side chainimprove dynamics of the clap, seems a bit flat and indistinguished, want it harder after the 3-2-1 dropintroduce a new element on a new track after the 3-2-1 drop, that comes in but then recedes before the final exitdoesn't seem like the new thing has any notesthe element is a bit muddy/indistinct. perhaps it needs simplification and more space, different instrument choice, i dunno

Hacker News4mo agoToolAI

Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices.We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention is the right primitive for this, and FFN parameters are wasted at this scale.Simple Attention Networks: the entire model is just attention and gating, no MLPs anywhere. Needle is an experimental run for single-shot function calling for consumer devices (phones, watches, glasses...).Training: - Pretrained on 200B tokens across 16 TPU v6e (27 hours) - Post-trained on 2B tokens of synthesized function-calling data (45 minutes) - Dataset synthesized via Gemini with 15 tool categories (timers, messaging, navigation, smart home, etc.)You can test it right now and finetune on your Mac/PC: https://github.com/cactus-compute/needleThe full writeup on the architecture is here: https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle/blob/main/docs/simp...We found that the "no FFN" finding generalizes beyond function calling to any task where the model has access to external structured knowledge (RAG, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation). The model doesn't need to memorize facts in FFN weights if the facts are provided in the input. Experimental results to published.While it beats FunctionGemma-270M, Qwen-0.6B, Granite-350M, LFM2.5-350M on single-shot function calling, those models have more scope/capacity and excel in conversational settings. We encourage you to test on your own tools via the playground and finetune acc

Hacker News4mo agoToolAI

TikTok but for scientific papers

Hacker News4mo agoToolOther

GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

Hey HN,My co-founders and I have been building GridTravel, a free iOS app for planning and sharing travel routes with turn-by-turn GPS nav. We just launched yesterday after App Store approval.We're three 21-year-old cofounders and best friends since middle school. We built GridTravel after years of frustration navigating new cities on every trip we took together.The idea: most people either search Google for "top 10 places to visit in…" lists or go on social media to get inspiration on where to go. GridTravel is built around user-generated routes — actual paths someone walked, that you can follow, save, download, and discover from other travelers. Users also have the ability to create private routes and collaborate with their friends.Tech stack: Mapbox (Nav SDK + maps), Supabase (auth, DB, storage), and Swift. Native iOS for now, Android coming soon.Our two real cost drivers are Mapbox Search (hit when users create routes) and Mapbox Navigation (hit when users use live navigation). Both have free tiers, then scale with MAU. We launched fully free to remove the barrier to entry. Revisiting pricing in Year 2 once nav costs start burning a hole in our pocket.Current state: we're in the UGC cold-start hole. The app's value scales with route density in a given city, but route density requires users, who require routes. Classic chicken and egg. Our current plan: 1. Manually seed 25–30 routes per city, starting with 5-10 priority cities where we have personal networks rather than spreading ourselves thin. 2. Short-form content as the primary social channel (TikTok, reels, shorts). Doing A/B testing: whether route walkthroughs convert better than informational/skit videos. 3. Partnering with micro-influencers in those cities (5k-50k following) for in-app routes plus cross-posts on their channelsCurious what HN thinks. Especially anyone who's shipped a UGC product. What worked for you on cold start? What do you wish you'd done dif

Hacker News4mo agoToolDesign & Creative

70FL score

Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands

Hacker News4mo agoToolAI

Lack of casual group chat app for betting on everyday real-life events

Friends want a simple app to create and join bets on daily occurrences like lateness to dinner, with pooled stakes and automatic payouts, making social predictions fun and monetized.

X4mo agoToolFinance

55FL score

Poor UI/UX in fantasy sports products persisting for decades

Fantasy sports apps and tools launch with subpar interfaces that frustrate users, despite the category being mature, leading to low engagement and retention.

X4mo agoToolSport & Fitness

No interactive map for regional Indonesian batik patterns

Users want an interactive digital map similar to WikiRug but focused on Indonesia, allowing clicks on provinces to access dedicated pages with batik pattern details, history, and variations.

X4mo agoToolDesign & Creative

Plugin UI failing to display in AI coding apps like Codex

Developers using AI coding tools cannot see or easily trigger plugin interfaces in the app, forcing manual prompt mentions and reducing productivity despite the tools being installed.

X4mo agoToolDev

70FL score

No simple app to track real-time spending among friends

People need a lightweight app that automatically shows how much each friend in a group is spending throughout the day to improve transparency in shared expenses or social budgeting.

X4mo agoToolFinance

Banking apps and ATMs simultaneously unavailable blocking access to funds

Users of major bank apps like BPI experience total downtime where online banking, ATMs, and debit transactions all fail at once, leaving people unable to access their money during maintenance.

X4mo agoToolFinance

40FL score

Complex crypto transaction UX preventing everyday adoption especially in Africa

Users face friction with wallet addresses, network checks, fees, and app switching for crypto transfers, making simple send/receive and fiat on/off-ramps feel unreliable and non-intuitive.

X4mo agoToolFinance

No citizen-connected app for reporting suspected immigration violations

Residents in areas like Cape Town need a direct app linked to immigration authorities where they can submit descriptions and alerts about suspected illegal immigrants to assist enforcement.

X4mo agoToolImmigration