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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Roleready.me
planning on postin ga show hn this week.
I had some ideas for improvements to brutalist.report but it got out of hand:
<Http://punditron.com/>
A slop machine, what's that??
*my feeling are very hurt that this link won't hotlink
I was kind of disappointed at our HOA management system so I made my own: https://hoamy.app
Started of manually, later stages I used AI for implementing similar pages, and then for reviewing my own code.
(It was also an excuse to work with Nuxt / Nuxt UI as I loved the development of those projects and wanted to implement something with it.)
I've stood up a message board to try to recapture the fun of running an 80's/90's BBS. You can look around at :
If you want to join in and post, you'll need a code for the registration process. The code ...
yc2026
...should work for a while.
https://avi-perl.github.io/dense-printer/
I tend to print a lot of stuff to read while disconnected. This is a tool to help squeeze as much content onto a printed page as possible instead of printing 4 or more pages per sheet.
A good use of Claude slop I'd argue. Currently trying to figure out how to set up the site so that an LLM tasked with printing content through it can figure out how to use it in the best way.
I'm having fun writing another agent harness nobody uses for real (not even me). As a side effect, I got an actor library in typescript to do it: https://github.com/muromec/posipaki .
After some time I figured the best use of AI is to produce even more AI-related slop and spend my occasional 2 dollars on the deep seek model to do it.
Models are fun when given a stable identity and made aware of it.
I’m working on AgentOrgy, a distributed platform that randomly pairs agents to “tag-team” a problem. Each team’s output is voted on by all agents. The winning results is returned at each stage of th loop.
Super excited to see how many tokens this will manage to burn per minute!!
Replacement for Quickbooks Self Employed (which is awful). Integrates Plaid and allows you to categorize business spending by official IRS categories and business income. Graphs of business spending, income, profit by month, quarter, and year. Export to CSV for easy entry into schedule C at tax time.
Future feature is estimating quarterly taxes and showing approximately how much should be paid each quarter if any and due dates.
A free, local-first desktop app for worldbuilding and running tabletop RPGs like D&D.
I've spent more than a year on this, first a website, and then migrating it to a desktop app.
A back up plan incase I really can't get back to working as an engineer. ugh...
I love being a gamedev: https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/comedot
One day I will make a game.
I’m working on a synthetic control arm for a heart valve trial using synthetic patients from both the heart valve registry (in the near future) and a frozen EHR encoder. It’s pretty fun exercise.
I've been climbing for a decade, but over the past 3 years I've put on a bunch of weight due to work and certain life events. But I want to change that.
I know what motivates me: seeing progress. The feedback loop of "do X, see Y gain" is what keeps me going.
So I started building an integrated dashboard that can aggregate data from multiple systems:
- My digital scale
- Apple Watch (sleep + running performance)
- Beastmaker Motherboard, which is an electronic board that you attach a hangboard to and it shows you various stats like how much force you're applying
The idea is that every morning I'll open the dashboard and be able to see exactly how much progress I've made the previous day: weight loss, strength gain, cardio performance.
It's an interesting problem. There's essentially two parts to it: Apple Health, which aggregates data from the scale and the Apple Watch and can POST-export it hourly, and the electronic board, which sends data via BLE in real time. The destination for both of these will probably be an always-on Raspberry Pi 5, but I haven't decided yet. Then I'll have a small server app that can pull the data from the Pi and draw some fancy charts.
Telemetry tooling for local Claude/Codex usage so I can analyze old sessions and fill tooling gaps, make sure I'm using the right models for various tasks, update my processes, etc.
I've also replaced Linear with a local sqlite-backed tool, added tooling to speed up code nav, and am building "no-slop", a tool for enforcing architectural guidelines on vibe-coded projects.
working on my own AI harness https://github.com/syrull/pluto tldr I dont trust anything nowadays, I wanted to know what requests I am doing to where and basically implement features that I use daily without the clutter of the other harnesses, still very raw but I am using it exclusively. Not a product or anything just something for myself.
who's working on the atproto facebook?!?!?
Homocodex, a cryptographic notary that proves human work at zero-trust infinite scale.
I'm building DocCharm — the help center for your software product that keeps itself up to date.
If you want to give it a try, email me and I'll comp your first two months and help you get started.
I (and Claude, codex, etc) have compiled/ran wayland, X11, GNOME, KDE, and Ladybird natively on a jailbroken iPad. Hoping to release more details soon but I have a slop wiki here:
Recently ive gotten into Unity. Have made games before but always avoided engines. This time im taking a deeper dive and want to learn at least the basics of a animations, lightening, movement and lay around with interesting combat variations.
C# is fine since i already know java.
I've had an idea for a different type of free & open search engine for the last 15 years. I ended up pursing other ideas instead over the years.
Last month however I decided to go back to the idea and give it a shot. Right now I'm in the process of scraping and building a huge index. The technical challenges have been plenty. But I should be ready to publish an alpha version by end of month or so.
I'm creating my own language using AI. About half of the C backend I wrote myself, and I'm putting in the syntax I want and the things I want to create. I'm not sure if it will be finished. https://github.com/srtdog64/PergyraLang
I had problems waking up and was looking for an alarm clock on Amazon. But I could only find analog clocks with the famously unreliably moments, and digital clocks which were overpriced and looked ugly. This feels like a real gap in the market, so I'm working on making my own alarm clock. It's a simple enough project but includes PCB design and modelling the case, etc, which I don't have experience in.
https://codeinput.com - currently working on a zapier alternative based on web assembly workers.
>What are you working on?
Dealing with UHD camera data, and synced feed switching issues (SDI has so many lame issues.)
>Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
A resilient solution to 99.998% of e-mail spam.
An acoustic analyzer for a sink basin in a hackerspace. It will allow for automatic detection of dishes/cups left in the sink without cameras and can be handled by an rp2040. So far looks like it has very low false positives but can only successfully detect certain materials or large masses.
I teach advanced engineering with LLMs:
Production-worthy formatter for lean4.
Right now it copes with important open source libraries on the model of clang-format's configuration, which is a real trick given the partial elaboration you need (with backtracking). But that works.
mathlib4 is the final boss, I don't currently even have a plan without per-directory quirks files which is probably a nonstarter.
Chess67.com - Website for real life OTB chess clubs, events and tournaments.
I'm working on pirate.kred - a Tip Jar DNS for pirates to directly and easily pay creators/authors.
I talked more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881942
a gibbet
I was working on sharemygit.com
However, LLM coding has made coding less rewarding so… Im thinking about starting a new hobby as coding for fun has become prompting.
httpstate
A data layer to connect everything with everything
wafertown (few days old!)
World's first LLMORPG. You craft a prompt and it goes to live in wafertown and interact with other players (I mean prompts), you can change your prompt once per day, then next day you get news about what you did there!
Super early, everything is manual rn, I'm automating stuff including sign ups, if you want to join shoot me an email!
suprasole - a pty proxy for enabling deterministic and ergonomic extensions/middleware for harnesses in an agnostic way... also working towards building an automation/scripting layer on top of harnesses via suprasole...
EV charging. latency optimization tooling. a tech book. a realtime Roguelike action-adventure game. ssh fun/leveraging
Lots of things.
- Got https://beachcomber.sh pretty much stable. Next stage is to propose to various upstreams its worth integrating. - Custom firmware for some ikea symfonisk dials because the oem firmware on them has some pretty bad bugs. Added features like hold and turn. Getting nice smooth dial behaviour over zigbee etc is surprisingly tricky - Built a skill evaluator tool that runs a skill through test suites and then tweaks the skill context and runs again. Its been pretty effective to be honest, almost all skills you do the first version is laughable compared to the one you get after this automated self improvement. - A robust tmux bridge interface for claude to hook into, and then a director layer on top of that for agent orchestration tooling - a stenographer skill that on the fly ripgrep and builds a rag on your on disk conversation history as a form of memory. Pretty effective. - I have just started a tool that brokers woodpecker ci to openbao/vault to give a gitlab like integration for controlled secrets injection for ci. - Been beating my head against a camera tool for a while now, finally making headway. Many ptz cameras dont support fov move, which nvrs need for ml object detection and tracking. They just have a super clunky continuous move and stop. So my tool characterises the camera with cv tools and calibrates movement curves to produce a data file that can be used by my onvif proxy to emulate the more advanced move commands. - Various helper tools for fusion, like csv based parameterised export, and compliant magnet insert generators. - A pipeline that consumes my content backlog, ie instagram saves, reddit saves, hn faves, etc and analyses them with local models and various algorithms steps to categorise and intuit why it was saved and what the key information is and what category it fits into for future reference etc. - A map of my city that shows live river height data with flood map overlays, contour data, predicted overland flow etc. flooding is a regular concern but theres no great resource to know whats going on. I have about 60gb of public datasets it works with. - A package manager for kicad library symbols and footprints, datasheets - skills for kicad so claude can reasonably interpret the schematic and advise on problems, check against datasheets etc. surprisingly effective. - A gcode controlled expansion board for the Carvera Air that gives you 8+8 channels of control for extraction, air assist, vacuum table, timelapse camera, etc. you only have 1 pwm pin so the protocol encodes over that. - A novel exploration interface for vitamins that renders them in a network graph, showing relationships. When you select one it rearranges around it into a kind of valance orbit style so you can explore chains of effect. Turns out, lots and lots of things relate to magnesium. - A comprehensive usb c pd board with 4s battery management. 3a or 8a depending on version. Trying to do proper pd in is nontrivial so this is a drop in solve. - A new brain pcb for Kinesis Advantage Pro keyboards to give modern firmware, bluetooth etc. - Repacked my rack UPS battery with LiFePo cells, and built an induction/resistive series battery balancer pcb for it. - Playing around with a new debug header/connector concept thats tiny footprint and zero cost to add.
The hard part is getting things over the line, publishing and seeing if theres interest. A thing can be largely done but theres a lot of detail work polishing it up so its public ready.
Yet another social app, but this is just an excuse to to build backend as a service using spring boot and full stack Kotlin.
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a golang io_uring implementation and a pinned run to completion framework to go with it, and a MQTT broker consuming it.