alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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Rapid verification of code smells + associated budgets so that coding agents don't write "bad" code. When needed, planning and coordinating agents or humans can authorize budget increases.
I'm designing small 3D printed rc boat and I want to make sure it floats so I'm using slicer to calculate displacement but the geometry is getting bit complex, so now I'm fighting openscad to make it boolean my volumes correctly.
We're working on the WASTE p2p code base.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/blackbeltwaste/
Thinking about adding video-calling after successful integration of Voice Conferencing.
Its an old p2p program, but recently been downloaded 15,000 times and counting.
Great fun and challenging too !!!
Maintain my blog
Working on https://eonia.art/, simple coloring page generator and picture animations.
I am using gemini-flash-image and veo-fast and it's impressive what you can do with them.
Building https://shippable.build for vibe coding in a proper stack and opinionated stack so it is less of a pain going to prod.
Trying to use ESNs as a random projection for audio data and potentially rendered text data for some AI workflows. Seeing it I can use the echo states running both forward and backward through the data as a holographic representation which would act as a temporally dense token for potential use in LLM or audio encoder inputs.
For those who don't want to switch to AI browsers, I built a chrome extension that lets you chat with page, draft emails and messages, fix grammar, translate, summarize page, etc. You can use models not just from OpenAI but also from Google and Anthropic.
Yes, you can use your own API key as well.
Feedbacks are welcome.
I've been working on an 'anti-fantasy' football game where you pick matches instead of individual players.
You can create or join leagues to compete against your friends.
I’d love to get some feedback!
Just pushed another update to https://sightread.org which generates sheet music to practice sight reading and music dictation. Still rhythm-only, now with support for asymmetric (odd) rhythms like 7/8
I will be replacing the Raspberry Pi 4 I use as a home server with a more powerful HP desktop. I am getting tired of DDOSing myself whenever I open the wrong menu on Nextcloud.
https://www.astrologercat.com/
Because everyone loves astrology and cute cats. (A toy project just for kicks)
Current features:
- AI Chat with Petunia the cat Astrologer
- Daily personalized astrology email
Coming soon:
- Ephemeris calculations
- Stories of historic events from past dates which share today's astrological conditions
- Whatever else Petunia dweams up from her sweepy nap on the bookshewf
Working on a workflow library and node based editor that has a little bit of AI stuff for RAG and image pipelines that runs all in the browser (desktop next month, cloud whenever someone asks). Just a toy at this point.
Competency matrix for better people decisions https://matricsy.com
I was annoyed by how many managers lead teams, make decisions, what 1:1 looks like..
Free A/B testing tool (Google Optimize / VWO alternative that is free and amazing).
No code/Code.
Full visual website editor included so everyone (even marketing team) can run A/B tests.
A place for open assets for developers. If you have assets you are using you can use this for distribution, either free for open or paid for closed. Based on my experience creating 3D experiences for LV, Ralph Lauren, Steelcase, and Logitech.
I'm working on Checkend [1], which is a self hosted error monitoring app. I needed something lightweight and easy to deploy.
https://github.com/NWoodsman/SimpleRecorder
A simple one click just works mic+PC audio recorder for Windows that mixes the microphone into the PC sound.
Adding documented API endpoints for https://uxwizz.com
I built a website where kids can practice reading comprehension and learn new words while staying up to date with the latest global news each day. I originally built it for my own kids to help them maintain their reading skills while we travel. They loved it—and even suggested adding gamified features like streaks and badges!
https://llmparty.pixeletes.com/experiments/universal_ui
I tiny experiment/joke about chatbots :)
An attempt to build intuition with interactive articles and experimentation, inspired by explorabl.es
A git enabled local-first browser-first markdown workspace wysiwyg editor and publisher. Built with mdx-editor, code mirror 6, react, shadcn and typescript
free, open source, MIT
reddit for reddit: https://lurkkit.com/
DJ controller in your browser: https://dj.t-tunes.com/
Building an AArch64 code generator.
Two things at once, contrary to my new year‘s resolution!
1. An app for personalized interactive audiobooks for kids - https://www.vivid.cx
2. A book about the edge of the thinkable - https://www.unthinkable.net
Working on Embedful. Goal is to make customer facing analytics easy and affordable for everyone, even if you're not a developer or analyst.
Almost launching and currently getting feedback from our small user group.
Making museum visit an online exp : https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/museeNatioRiga00...
Recently fixed bugs in an audio encoder / decoder (VADPCM) I reverse engineered from the Nintendo 64, and some people are apparently using it to dub Conker’s Bad Fur Day into Spanish.
On-and-off again working on a Mystery Dungeon style game but I have a lot of obligations taking me away from it.
Planning on making demoscene entries this year.
I'm building a golf simulator that runs a solver to solve strokes-to-hole from every point of the golf hole to then illustrate the game design aspects golf course architecture mathematically.
I'm doing a challange to build and ship 25 projects in 25 weeks. It's been tough as hell. I'm on week 16.
The goal is to build cool, interesting sites for my newsletter to show that the old web is still alive and well.
Refactoring Comment Castles [0]. It uses Express, but I previously wasn't using any of my own middleware functions. Now, I'm starting to write some middleware, and it's a nice way to reuse code.
I'm working on a checkers game:
https://rusty-checkers.fly.dev
It's built in Rust using Rama and Yew. Trying now to get websockets going so people can actually play. A bit over my head, but that's what I do :)
Learn languages with spaced-repetition flashcards from content such as ebooks, websites and videos.
Working on a web framework that provides some guardrails around what a coding agent can and can’t touch without human approval. Makes it easier to have confidence in 5000 line code changes without having to comb through the code.
A meta video game inspired by pc98 card game : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gde4lhvsAkA
I'm working on tablr.io, a B2B SaaS to help companies convert customer feedback into actionable insights.
Working on a PHP debofuscator (ioncube) at https://decodephp.io/
I’m building a tool that helps you stay on track and revise LeetCode DSA problems in a structured, stress-free way for interview prep.
I have launched it here https://dsaprep.dev
A smaller better open claw : https://github.com/geongeorge/nakedclaw
I made a Wordle-like daily puzzle. Every day a new category matching puzzle comes up for you to solve!
Last time this was asked I was working on this
https://github.com/fmstephe/simd_explorer
A little TUI app for interactively running different SIMD instructions and seeing the outputs.
Since then I have completed the tool for AVX/2. At this stage that's as far as I intend to go.
It's potentially valuable as an interactive quick reference guide for SIMD instructions.
It works on Windows, Linux and with the right environment variables it will successfully pretend to be AMD64 running on an Apple M chip.
Arm NEON instructions are not supported at all, currently Go's assembler does not include these instructions directly, so I didn't attempt to build for them. Maybe one day.
Next up, learn Zig - be happy.
Robinhood for Private Equity. Invest in SpaceX, Stripe, OpenAI before they go public.
Launching this tomorrow:
I just bought a few microcontrollers and electronics bits to mess with, I want to write an operating system for it to learn risc-v assembler
Completely rewriting fullremote.it (a platform for italian tech workers looking for remote jobs) in next.js using claude as "pairing buddy"
Solo dev, built https://poddley.com a guest-tracking transcript podcast service with rss, timestamps, person-filtering and transcript search.