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

439 points david927 | 3 comments | 29 Jun 25 20:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.468s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
1. pmaze ◴[30 Jun 25 16:46 UTC] No.44425339[source]▶
https://hnbooks.pieterma.es

I scraped HN's 1000 most mentioned books and visualised them. This month I used a new embedding model (Nomic), switch out UMAP for PaCMAP, and added automatic cluster labelling.

The clustering and dimensionality reduction aren't quite as stable as I'd like, but most seeds give decent results now.

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2. agcat ◴[01 Jul 25 05:09 UTC] No.44430773[source]▶
Love it! Thanks for building this, was looking for book recos.
3. iforaa ◴[01 Jul 25 12:57 UTC] No.44433461[source]▶
This is awesome! Thank you for this project