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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: 0.833s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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rorylaitila ◴[30 Jun 25 13:07 UTC] No.44422829[source]▶
Working on a physical and digital archive of all American vintage print advertising. I've built the archival and database software on Lucee & MySQL to store images and automate, and I use OpenAI to analyze images and extra meta data. All of the full page ads are pushed to https://adretro.com.

I've gotten the process to fully catalog all of the advertisements in a magazine (about 150 on average) down from over a week to a few hours. I should be able to get through the material within my lifetime now :)

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1. rorylaitila ◴[30 Jun 25 18:32 UTC] No.44426415[source]▶
Incidentally, I have come across few vintage ads containing or targeted to black people explicitly. Most of the vintage publications I come across are Life, Saturday Evening Post, and Look. I am on the lookout for regional and local publications which may be different, but they're hard to find because they were not really circulated enough to have survived. But there are so many publications I randomly find it's sometimes daunting how much I feel I'm missing out finding!