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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This month I have mainly been building my fork of tiny-dfr so that my 2019 mbp touchbar isn’t useless when on hyprland/cosmic
https://github.com/keloran/tiny-dfr
Unfortunately due to the way GitHub defaults to creating prs in the parent fork, I have accidentally created a few invalid prs in asahi before I was ready, and now am banned from creating a good upstream one
I created a setapp alternative at https://getapps.cafe. 40 local-first apps and counting and yes I use claude code to help building all these apps (and I do read the code). It is so much easier now to start and create small, self contained apps and I do the future is local/privacy by default apps
Working on https://razzify.in - Learn hacking using CTF challenges and get hired. https://securepilot.in - Indias first cybersecurity incident management platform for individuals.
Taper - A minimalist, journal-inspired race planner for athletes. Everything you need for race day—notes, gear, nutrition, logistics and strategy—in one workspace. https://gotaper.app
I am writing the AWS SDK for Python that developers deserve: https://github.com/kap-sh/aws-sdk-python
Continuing my newsletter about agentic coding:
I’ve been playing around with using llms to recommend me books I can get from my local library based on the model’s latent knowledge of books it has ‘read’ and a conversation with it about books I’ve liked.
Inspired by the Vint Cerf discussions, I'm hoping to renew my interest in space exploration as a hobby sim/ coding project.
I've started building a visualization tool for mobile robots using the VDA5050 communication standard.
There are some solutions already out there but most are either slow, resource intensive, or both. Especially for larger fleets of robots. I'm using it to learn more about VDA5050, Rust and wgpu.
I’m working on https://main-duck.com/ which simplifies converting your code to mcp. I plan to make this easy to integrate into CI so mcps can be updated easily. It’s hosted remotely and I’m very excited about where it’ll go.
I'm building a family game server that will host web-based games on my local network (although I'm thinking about using something like Cloudflare Tunnel to make it available on the internet).
The first game I'm building is the card game Phase 10, and I'm done with phases 1-7. After that, I'd like to build Carcassonne, and maybe Jeopardy.
This is an open source tool to run background coding agents + dev environment in isolated VMs. So far it has allowed me to migrate a majority of long running coding sessions to my homelab to run remotely. I can also run multiple in parallel without worrying about race conditions or my host machine breaking.
I'm working on so101-nexus, an open-source sim-to-real stack for the SO-100/SO-101 robot arms where you can record teleop demos, behavior-clone a policy, then fine-tune with RL. The goal is to be very compatible with Gymnasium, MuJoCo, and LeRobot.
I've built a voice app for controlling Claude code / Codex sessions and having a lot of fun with it.
I can start a remote tmux session from my laptop, close the lid, grab my airpods and continue on the same sessions while in a gym or a bicycle.
Planning to open source it soon.
I am building Bloomberry (https://bloomberry.com), an alternative to tools like BuiltWith/Wappalyzer to provide sales signals when companies subscribe or churn from over 1600 B2B tech products. Think backend/backoffice tools like Hubspot CRM, or Netsuite, or Microsoft 365, rather than frontend technologies like Wordpress or React.
I'm working on leveraging NLP and LLM techniques to create a geometry over the discrete space of Ethereum transaction execution structure. (sorry... it's a bit of a mouthful)
The goal is to find on-chain structural anomalies, as well as seeing if clustering by behavior has emergent semantic properties
It's a calculator for what an AI feature costs to serve. Cost per request, cost per month, which part of the bill is eating you (output tokens, usually). No signup, all the math is on the page. Any feedback is welcome.
Been building a open-source technical interview platform. Trying to keep the existing ideas of async coding assessments + live programming interviews, but want to add features for the new interview formats I see of take-home projects + AI coding agent interviews
I've been working on https://weirdther.com/
A website that tells you how "weird" the weather has been in a specific location
Weird being the percentile difference to the weather since the year 2000
Working on full stack prototyping agents that own their own Aws account (zero deploy friction). Think speed of lovable/ base44 with power of Aws services
I am working on Spreadsheet Preview, embed and preview Excel files in any website/web app. Just like PDF.js for pdf files. Check it out at https://spreadsheetpreview.com
I am working on https://chiptune.app.
Most recently, adding SID support, and adding timing information to the emulated formats that don’t have any tagged song duration (e.g., converting NSF to NSFE). This means playing the songs one by one and watching for repeated sequences of writes to the sound chip registers.
Working on a n extensible OSS tool to turn public Instagram accounts into rss feeds so I can quit Instagram for good https://rss.numbersoffice.com.
I released Humm[1] last week. Realtime speech-to-text with a focus on privacy. No backend, no telemetry - just a fast, nicely designed app wrapping local stt models.
[1] https://humm.so/
I’ve been working on Hype Doc. I built it for myself and hope others find it useful. I decided to build the mobile apps too and that process is way more work than I expected. It’s been fun though to dive into Rails 8 in the process.
It’s an app to track wins and celebrate yourself
A FOSS TUI for Obsidian-like markdown Vaults, using interactiong metaphors of old DOS software. Especially inspired by Wordperfect 6 and Norton Commander.
I'm using AI to build a project to teach me SQL. I use claude code to build the lessons, and then I complete them myself. I've done this for a few topics already, and I think it's one of the most amazing things you can do with LLMs.
I have been working on a AI native browser = WebMCP is first class and the in-app agent uses it to do tasks.. not the same as a slapped on chat sidebar. also MCP actions are lightning fast.. so i use it via my Hermes agent.
https://narada.koley.in https://gaurav.koley.in/2026/building-browser-for-agents
A platformer game where you can become 1 dimensional and follow surfaces as a line: https://myth-game.pages.dev
Space - Jump / E - Attack
Curious if it works on your browser.
I have always wanted a web browser with tmux/iterm2 style tabs/panes, as well as the ability to save the window configuration and tab contents to a file that can be checked in to projects and loaded.
Load all of your project's documentation links, local development browser tools (database viewers, etc.) into a set of views that can be source controlled with the project. Don't force people to use their daily driver browsers for this, or hack side-by-side views together with their OS window managers. Zen and friends have split panes, but it's not the robust tab/panel system that I wanted.
There is a simple tab widget system, which so far has:
- Viewport manager: basically 1:1 with what is in Chrome devtools
- Session manager: create and manage browser sessions as a first-class entity, and attach/detach tabs to these sessions. Includes a simple "incognito" toggle as well.
- System light/dark override: stop flipping this on/off for your whole OS to test "system" light/dark mode (tedious)
- Reload trigger: pick a target tab. if that tab reloads, so does this one.
- Log file viewer: if the tab source is a local file, change the tab's view to a structured log file parser with search/filter, play/pause, etc.
- Screenshot/Video capture: not built yet. pretty self explanatory.
Great keyboard controls are a hard requirement for me. It's a little tricky since content in web views can capture this too, so I have a global "nav mode toggle" you enter to move around between panes and the tabs within them. Actively figuring out the correct UX, but I am liking what I have so far.
Toying with the idea of a "tab link" which allows you to store a set of "source" tabs in a view, but create "links" in other views, where the navigation is synced across all instances. Useful if you want to have, say, the Tailwind docs open to a specific page, but have that page shared across different views. For example, if you want to have one view specifically for mobile view work and another for desktop view work, and not have to manually navigate to the same Tailwind docs page in both views.
I'm honestly just using it as I work on another real project, and adding features as I think "hey wouldn't this be nice?" Which is a pretty fun and satisfying process. I don't have it published yet, because I'm not entirely sure if it's worth sharing at the moment, but I feel like I'll discover that along the way here and go from there. Maybe someone here will chime in :P
Taking a bit of a detour with self-hosting the language, now that the syntactic surface, standard library, and initial dependency strategy are on a decent footing.
With any luck, by the end of the week, I'll start prepping for a 0.0.1 release.
I'm working on a variation of MTP that recovers PP TPS (back to the same as with MTP disabled), keeping most of MTP's benefits to TG TPS.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700782
Will propose a patch back to llama.cpp or provide it as a fork.
Distinctive business essays, written daily. I'm working to help us all see the world more profitably.
I frequently found myself needing to convert video files and everything is either paid, needs login, full of ads, or uploads your files. So I built my own tool that has none of that.
I follow a bunch of gaming rss feeds just to keep up with what’s new in the industry. Figured I’d take those and turn them into a news aggregator to put them all into one place. Threw in some game deals/affiliate to pay the web hosting bills (hasn’t paid for anything yet, lol).
An alternate web client for Jira that doesn't take a 1GB of ram and slow as molasses.
I've been building WhyNotLog to answer tricky questions using statistics. Example questions include "what gives my dog allergies?" or "what affects my sleep?".
Available at https://whynotlog.com and promo code HACKERNEWS gives access to the pro plan for six months.
When I switched from engineering to product, I tried a bunch of different user insight tools. They all had their strengths and weaknesses, but they always felt... off. They gathered feedback well but it wasn't easy to answer the questions I was asking, and it was a huge chore to keep it organized.
So I hacked on https://inputbuffer.io and just opened it to a wider audience.
You hook up your user feedback source (via widget or API) and it will organize everything by content category (e.g. billing) or target (e.g. a specific page, API endpoint, CLI command etc).
Categorization isn't rigid, InputBuffer does its best to put feedback where it belongs and gives you a clear triage flow if you want the added control.
Once organized you can learn more via a quick analytics dashboard or by interrogating the data directly, chatting with InputBuffer to gain a stronger understanding of your product, with clear citations to all feedback.
I have had success on both small and large amounts of input, on traditional SaaS platforms, developer tools, open source projects and more.
Next up: automatically gathering user input from other platforms (like GitHub issues), and more research tools.
Working on my word game - https://www.quizingo.app/vocabulary
building https://wellbody.me - we take your body health goal and build out a progression system that considers fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, mobility, and recovery -> and break it down into just 3 actions daily.
A competitive word guessing game, play against family/colleagues etc, it tracks your solves and some other fun metrics. Totally free, no ads or other crap. No login needed to play.
I‘m working on an online radio player for community radios. https://radiodock.app
Search is currently provided by the Radio Browser API, but I'm now building my own station API with proper metadata and thumbnail coverage. A station discovery page with most played stations is also in the making.
I made a sensor-less FOC controller with Fable in Rust as an experiment this past weekend, it actually works... https://rhobic.com/
Scrolless, a Safari extension that keeps all the human parts of social media (search, DMs, stories, posts from friends) while removing all the algorithmic garbage designed to suck up your attention.
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 FOSS project that lets static sites receive comments via email https://r3ply.com.
https://infohound.ai/
A News Platform aggregator collecting sources of information across the internet (socials, newswires, etc.) and trying to push context to humans in a more digestible form. We are also experimenting with defining lineage of information using AI to help people try to piece the puzzle together as information flows in.