alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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Here's what I _wish_ someone was working on, I'd build it myself but I'm too busy with other projects. A browser extension that's not a popup blocker but a popup minimizer. So any popup (newsletter, cookie notification, even social signin) gets sucked down into a Windows 95 style taskbar. You can restore them easily but they get out of your main browsing flow. Maybe start as a fork of one of the popup blockers?
A daemon-focused CLI driven music player for GNU/Linux. I recently got it working with playerctl by exposing it to dbus using zbus, great fun. https://git.2137697.xyz/salmon/rsplayer
Currently working on a CLI tool that performs property-based testing from Arazzo documents: https://github.com/IgnacioGoldchluk/cuerdo
A graphviz dot substitute in pure rust:
https://azriel.im/disposition/
Things I missed in original graphviz dot:
1. predictable / stable layout
2. dark and light mode css (tailwind)
3. interactive through pure css
4. markdown descriptions
Took ages understanding how to route edges to not overlap labels.
I made a sensor-less FOC controller with Fable in Rust as an experiment this past weekend, it actually works... https://rhobic.com/
Photos Wallpaper - recreates the functionality from older Mac OS versions to rotate photos from your library as wallpaper, changing on a schedule.
Written by Codex with me driving product direction, reviewing, testing, occasionally scolding, and handling the release process.
Accepted onto the Mac App Store last week.
Still working on https://compears.shop we’ve added some new features to help people shop in the EU for cheap. I’m hoping we get to expand this to more EU countries
A powershell-like objects-over-text UNIX shell in Lisp. I’m afraid it’s another agentic turd I produced, but I’m polishing this turd a lot more than the others.
I am working on a reddit lead generator that pings you when someone wants a product like yours in real time, and It does so only when the intent is high.
Was using this only for my self, but i think it might be interesting for other people as well.
Took a shot at recreating yahoo pool. Then just started adding more games to it: https://neonparlor.com
https://gitlab.com/philbooth/opair
It's a coding harness that eschews autonomy and instead works like a pair programming partner, with distinct "driver" and "navigator" modes. I've only spent 3 weekends on it so far, so it's a long way from finished. But I am at least using opair to work on opair now, which is nice.
I didn't really want to write a harness, I just got frustrated enough that nobody else was writing the harness I actually want to use. I'll probably be the only person that uses this, but I'm fine with that.
I am working on Rockitz a site to post and comment about News. its written in .Net. https://www.asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
I am working on a local first LLM frontend that saves all chats directly to your hard drive and ships in a single index.html file artifact that you can self host.
No code to show yet. I'm taking the time it requires.
I _just_ published https://klar.im/ a local-first AI spam filter for Apple Mail on mac.
It is build using a model that can classify messages (ham/spam/marketing), packaged for Apple Mail but could be used in other places.
A minimal, immutable Unix-based OS with built-in attestation and runtime integrity for deploying server applications in microVMs - https://www.gingercybersecurity.com/
apt-cacher-ultra: To help reduce the impact of future DDoSes of Ubuntu. Just released 1.0 yesterday after working on it a couple months.
As that DDoS was going on I realized that some of our dev and staging processes were impacted by it, and that apt-cacher-ng was doing nothing to help us.
apt-cacher-ultra snapshots the repo meta-data after verifying it, and only promotes it if the metadata all checks out. Additionally, it can optionally keep a list of "hot" packages, and can include those in the snapshot calculation.
Additionally, apt-cacher-ng would regularly choke and require some handholding. I'm hoping -ultra resolves that as well.
A simple web app that generates scenarios for practicing spoken languages. Read a news article and then chat about it with AI. https://fluenly.ai/
I am building a solitaire solver for Zachtronic Solitaire. Especially the last one. It should allow you to take a pic of the screen and tell you if it's solvable and what the next moves could be.
I struggle with terminology so I made a little Gnome utility for easier LLM-based terminology lookups from a highlighted word/term + contextual screenshot. So far it's working pretty well, kinda like a better version of the Mac OS or Kindle ones.
Code World Models in Simultaneous Move settings like Capital Markets. DeepMind's CWM approach relies on standard MCTS/IS-MCTS, which assumes a single active player at each node.
This doesn't work in simultaneous-move settings like Orbit Wars (or order-book markets), converging to an exploitable pure strategy rather than a Nash equilibrium.
LeCun's JEPA, by contrast, is a learned neural world model, which lacks the determinism, speed, and debuggability of a code-based simulator. Thus, it can drift or predict illegal states, and you can't inspect why it made a prediction the way you can trace a Python function.
TL;DR: The benefit is better auditability and easier RL-like training. The SM-MCTS extension fixes the first problem (decoupled UCB per player approximates Nash equilibrium instead of a pure strategy) while keeping the second advantage intact (a deterministic, inspectable code simulator).
https://github.com/ternary-ai/ow-code-world-model https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/a-self-improving-code-world-...
We just launched https://www.dplyd.io which will do AI in a box. Small deployments of local models for law firms, healthcare, defense, etc…
There are many like it. This one is ours.
Building a typing application that helps you quickly learn and improve your typing.
We believe everyone can type at 80wpm or more. It just takes a good tool and a couple months of consistent practice
Exploring highly interactive instrument (piano) practice to see if AI can help students practice better. Full duplex voice agent alongside your practice session. Also exploring live AI jamming partner to practice playing with others.
Shipped version 2.2 of my Interactive Fiction platform Sharpee with Phrase Algebra.
Designing a new DSL (Chord) that compiles to Sharpee (Typescript).
i make the microsoft word but less sucks, and there is scientific calculator integrated and also ai on it too, available on linux (stable) and windous (unstable).
aidekin: an open-source, client-side AI assistant you drop onto any website. Your visitors get a private voice and text assistant that runs entirely on their own device via WebGPU
I am going to be trying my hand at making bread at home. Italian style deli rolls, pretty excited for that.
Had the recipe optimized by GPT 5.6, lets see.
Exploring map based game ideas like arcade racing in your neighborhood: https://trippi.app/drift/
Building a Dropbox like client that work with every protocol there is: S3, SFTP, SMB, NFS, Azure Blob, IPFS, ...
Trying to summarize my career advice reading: https://www.nordstroem.ch/posts/2026-07-12-collected-career-...
Open to feedback and missing pieces.
I'm working on touching more grass, virtually...
I am taking my limited time before next job hunt and using coding agents to create a wego board strategy game inspired by Escape From Tarkov, Advanced Wars, and PhantomBrigade.
I recently built and opensourced Inka[0], an AI journal for BOOX devices.
I continue to grow my main product BoltAI[1]
[0]: https://inka.page
[1]: https://boltai.com
I’m hacking on an app that helps immigration lawyers spend less time chasing client documents: https://casedaemon.com/
We just launched a couple weeks ago and we’d love any feedback or suggestions!
Self healing test selectors and authoring test journeys with natural language for Cypress using Claude Code or self hosted models. [0]
opening back a cultural center in Italy we had 26 years ago, with the very good help of Claude Code.
Mobile app that turns any recipe into 2-player mode, so you can cook together. Kind of like overcooked IRL.
I've been playing around with https://openworm.org/index.html a lot recently...getting back into artificial life "research" more broadly.
A really cool iOS and Android screen recorder.
You can put your face on the screen in real time, record, stream, even annotate live, add text, draw, show touch indicators.
Pretty neat!
https://www.stonkys.com a tech focused community.
The point is to increase the signal to noise ratio, by having a community rating system.
readme2demo: https://github.com/alphacrack/readme2demo
devtool to validate readme for human and ai use, ships working tutorial from your readme.
Adding MCP support to the open-source metaverse Substrata (https://substrata.info/)
I'm working on Osaurus, AI harness for local models. It's for macOS, written in Swift.
https://github.com/duriantaco/ravage. Working on an autonomous pentester!
Been pushing through SideProjectors - https://www.sideprojectors.com - if your projects don't work out, feel free to submit it for sale :)
I'm still working on Logos Language. Just launched v0.10.0 :)
Built https://skil.gg, a site for mini games.
After 2 months of work I finally finished calibration of first 2 channels of my automatic test equipment and now I can finally measure diode curves.
I'm working on Atomic Cloud, the hosted version of my open source knowledge graph project. https://atomicapp.ai/cloud/
This month I worked on my own AI agent written in POSIX shell. It's been surprisingly useful for debugging command line problems on an old laptop running linux, like fixing an apt problem.
https://github.com/patrickjh/ssa