alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?
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Tritium, the legal IDE: https://tritium.legal/preview
Building the web-embeddable legal IDE for transactional AI-native law firms. Docx, PDF and Markdown in the browser with redlining, go-to definition and more. In Rust, of course.
I'm building Oculette (https://prelaunch.oculette.ai/).
Basically, I hooked up an ESP32 camera to a vision model so I can prompt it to watch stuff and send webhooks. Thinking analog gauges, legacy equipment, sourdough starters (still no API), and stuff like that.
Been dogfooding the prototype on my desk, and now I have an air quality API that reads the display on a cheap monitor.
Also added direct camera access via MCP so Claude could help me debug the hardware, which has been pretty fun.
Launched a word logic puzzle game called Meshword: https://meshword.org
It combines nonograms with crosswords, requiring both logic and word knowledge to solve. I am still working on the interface and tutorial, as well as the puzzle difficulty levels.
A fully hand-written project: https://github.com/smy20011/onecut
Edit video by editing code.
I took on a software project for a factory. During work hours, I write code for the company, and after hours, I work on code for other companies. I also submitted some PRs to open-source projects this month.
Reflect [1], it’s a local-first privacy focused self tracking and data analysis app where you can set goals and run self experiments
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
Building a replacement for docker focused on better isolation and more lightweight resource utilization.
It's a sandbox that you can embed ala the sqlite of VM's.
https://www.nichess.org - chess with health points
Working on a modern implementation of a torrent client [1], it's already pretty usable for most scenarios. Provides both a daemon + web UI out of the box as well as an embeddable engine for any Rust application.
[1] - https://spill.rs
I'm trying to make a video to Lottie Animation Converter but so far it doesn't work: https://gen2d.com/animation-video/
Still working on my audio FPAA ASIC for Wafer Space run 3!
Hopefully someone will soon have tested chips from the 2nd run that use 2 edges only on the pad ring. This would enable significant area savings.
The deadline is fast approaching and many blocks are only partially validated...
Software development is dying. I am teaching myself how LLMs really really work with this tool that I am building https://modelmathics.com you can try it on https://try.modelmathics.com
A south-park style animation creator, where you paste in a script and it will animate a short episode for you with voice too!
Building my an airflow pipeline focused on collecting news.
Partly because I want one, but also because it makes for a good learning platform. e.g. initially do some of the processing with a stronger llm...save result and then attempt to train a SLM or similar
I am building Cloud based context compiler and intelligent codebase visualizer for Developers and AI Agents, for easy PR review, onboarding and easy architectural understanding
AI client for data analysis.
You can connect Claude desktop to databases using MCP servers, but Claude desktop is not great at displaying large volumes of data. A custom client can do a much better job.
Trying to get the kids outside: https://eyesoutside.org
and letting families hold off on screens for a few more years: https://readychime.com
I am developing the concept of a "digital environment of emergence."
https://docking.cc is a Linux dock bar with Wayland, X11, Linux, Free/Open/NetBSD and experimenting on Windows
It has 60+ native applets like WhatsApp, Hacker News, Reddit, Calendar, Weather, ...
Ur is an (very in-progress) universal formatter and linter for every programming language. It's in preview right now, which just means friends are messing around with it and having a good time pointing out all the bugs. Docs are mostly up to date, but buyer beware. Implementation wise, it's the Rascal meta language reimagined in Rust with some features from JastAdd thrown in there for good measure. Ur is incremental/persistent between runs, it's built on top of Mambo, a library that drops in as a replacement for Salsa and persists all queries to disk automatically.
Ur has some pretty good static analysis and code rewriting tools hidden inside of it that'll get documented later on. These tools have been developed in tandem with a static mass rewrite of some core parts of the Rust compiler. It's very much not done, but it's made pretty good progress towards putting all crates in one process, dropping memory after a crate is done compiling, and full incremental support across all commands. Here is a literate program that explains why, how and which changes are being made (I haven't read all of it myself yet, lots still changing). Aiming to have this out by end of the month.
I'm vibing an old style RTS game and exploring how far can I get with local models for drawing, 3D models, rigging and sprites. I love how much I can accomplish with Claude in terms of code, but gluing it all together with graphics still requires plenty of "manual" work.
https://vester.si/motion/?e=plasma
My new favourite shader running realtime over your camera input. Has gotten great feedback from kids as well :)
Knowers of plasma pong might see slight resemblance.
Werkbook (https://werkbook.app), digital forms and photo reports for field crews. I'm a solo Rails dev, and thanks to Claude it now has native iOS and Android apps instead of Hotwire Native web-view wrappers.
I'm working on an AI powered loan servicing platform. We've been trying to get cold / warm intros to onboard a set of design partners
Been working on my own Orca-like meta harness: getlattis.ai
Use it every day, and my team mates have started using it and loving it. In my dreams it’s a business. In reality the feedback I get from people that like it absolutely makes my day.
https://geotastic.us/ An AI analyst for ArcGIS. A lot of city data in the US is stored in ArcGIS or Socrata. This tool uses LLMs to generate code to analyze it.
Line drawing and maps, oh and global illumination and 3d printers... fun times!
An easy way to find a place that works for everyone. Think of it as a doodle for places.
You can also create collections of places, ask for recommendations etc.
https://github.com/ivankovic/stop-bots
Trying to keep my selfhosted server safe with a Rust TUI for managing bot blocking at the nftables and nginx level.
AGPL v3
I’m based in Berlin and currently working on ChatFrom.io . You upload your knowledge base, and it uses advanced RAG with hybrid search and reranking to find answers when someone asks a question. It connects to Stripe, Shopify, and other tools, and works on Telegram, Slack, and more. Free to start.
For the last year I’ve been building personalized tools to help my wife with her day trading and have started to productize them as https://cuppa.markets/
An MCP server to act as lore persistent record and tools to orient an open world text adventure game played through AI agents.
The theme is an empty Earth. All natural Earth with no human constructions (until the players start playing and occupying it).
Using Rust and RocksDB.
eremoterra.com
Drive.py Manage files across your connected and disconnected drives
A desktop app to easily browse, tag, and rate your images. It doesn't touch your files, it just reads them. Everything is stored in a local SQLite database. Think Eagle app but private, offline, and easy to use.
https://hatamoto.dev - a complete replacement to Wordpress and its most used plugins built into the system. One go binary, no node , no compilation, Postgres and sandboxes plugins. Built in AI analytics
I'm working on judt.ai
Trying to make an agent first too for agents to ship full micro apps.
Built on the awesome celld.dev which gives each app full execution environment, db, durable objects, etc..
Tracking the spread of pirate scene releases, but I can't say more publicly. And playing Old-School RuneScape.
https://www.occasionful.com/ an unofficial Partiful client that is easier to use than the official website / app
An audiobook player that plays local audiobooks & librivox books. Also has a curated library of audio drama podcasts.
I'm working on a platform for selling event tickets (kind of an alternative to Ticketmaster or weezevent). I'm working on it on my free time for now (I am also using it to test working with AI tools ). Not sure yet if I want to build a company or not.
Also working on AI music video, trying to reach pro level, here is my last creation: https://youtu.be/aC4WQyKc_A0
I've been building MiserablyUnemployed for the better part of this year. https://miserablyunemployed.com/
It's a free job site with some resume tools bolted on. Lots of people from all over the world are using it and that feels great.
It has 2.7M+ jobs and automatically removes any job older than 7 days. We never allow reposts because, frankly, the job market is a nightmare and any job that has been up for 7+ days almost certainly has 1000+ applicants already. You're just feeding your resume into a wood chipper.
Come and try it. It's awesome.
Aficionado (https://aficiona.do) - a place to discover, scrapbook and remember media (movies, video games, tv shows, music and books) that resonated with you or that you'd like to try.
developing a decision-management system for code (https://edawise.com/deccy-framework)
and on the side, trying to develop ai interfaces that aren't built around conversations, currently in the form of a restaurant search tool but i can't get it fast enough (at a low cost) to feel usable
working on AudioWeave, an ad free, offline first Android podcast player.
switching from iOS, I wasn't happy with the existing podcast apps, so I built this mostly for myself. I've been using it for the last six months and finally pushed a public beta.
My day to day is BE so I used the project to learn Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Everything is strictly native using Room and Media3/ExoPlayer. I wanted a nice looking (subjective), privacy-focused app without any tracking or ads.
I'm considering open sourcing it soon.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enyodigita...
An Obsidian plugin that turns handwritten reMarkable notes into searchable text. You can run the handwriting recognition locally on a Mac. The latest feature I added sends your highlights and margin notes from the tablet to Readwise. https://taggedsync.com