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

439 points david927 | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 20:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.986s | 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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devenson ◴[30 Jun 25 19:16 UTC] No.44426844[source]▶

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A category for politically incorrect ads would be cool.

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1. rorylaitila ◴[30 Jun 25 19:30 UTC] No.44426976[source]▶

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Good idea! There are certainly some ads where I think "no way that would fly today." Though its not necessarily being PC or not (because a lot of the ads would be considered offensive today). It more like "What were they thinking, this ad makes no sense"

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