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

439 points david927 | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 20:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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tootyskooty ◴[30 Jun 25 02:41 UTC] No.44418723[source]▶
Still working on https://periplus.app, and recently started to see some traction.

It's an environment for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses, documents, exams and flashcards.

Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a graph you grow over time.

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encody ◴[30 Jun 25 11:25 UTC] No.44421939[source]▶
Supremely impressive, and I lean a bit towards the more AI-hesitant side.
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encody ◴[30 Jun 25 11:44 UTC] No.44422084[source]▶
I tried to get it to generate a foreign language reading comprehension course (and even included custom instructions to make the course generate reading comprehension passages to emulate a test), but it just generated a course about _how_ to effectively read different kinds of texts, without actually generating the foreign-language passages themselves.
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1. tootyskooty ◴[30 Jun 25 12:57 UTC] No.44422710[source]▶
Yeah, doesn't work for generating language-learning content yet. Something more aligned to what you'd find on Wikipedia tends to work best.

I'm thinking you could have it in the same interface eventually, but right now all the machinery & prompts assume it's decomposable declarative knowledge.