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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Indieweb/blogosphere index, search, and exploration.
Taking a break from features to focus on refining content filters and expunging sites that slipped through. Looking at you, .ai TLD.
Unity for photos.
A tool that builds an FPS video game(1) in one day.
(1) : The FPS game runs on PC, Mac and even Smartphones.
fxdax - https://github.com/semistrict/fxdax a port of fuschia fxfs to linux on top of a novel virtio device that stores file data in object storage. Intended use is file system for VMs that supports dax to avoid page cache duplication while maintaining high performance
https://khumbu.im - app to study german language (extract highlighted words from paper, generate anki cards etc)
https://github.com/a-poor/ganymede
I'm working on a native Jupyter client, written in Rust!
https://schmolt.itch.io/wormlove
A little puzzle game where you make worms kiss. 32 levels, plays in your browser.
Building out an interactive fiction platform which blends AI storytelling, images, video, and TTS with user choices at the end of each page in the story. Https://cyberstory.ai/
It started maybe 9 months ago with the idea of an AI driven Oregon Trail adventure and i've carried on with more historical fiction adventures across time plus alternate histories, romance, and more. Users can also build out their own stories.
One strange thing I ran into was the LLMs always naming characters the same names across stories (and i'm not using seeds!).
I've been doing a bunch of differential analysis and trying to put some of my large amount of private unpolished work online. Found a bunch of bugs in PNG libraries, Game Gear emulators, SDCC, and other things. I've been running a bunch of test ROMs on multiple revisions of hardware, and oh boy is that thing poorly-understood, if emulator errors are anything to go by. SDCC is the compiler I'm using for the ROMs and it's full of miscompiles and performance issues, so I'm running a patched build with everything I know about fixed, because I kept running into stupid issues while making the aforementioned ROMS (downloaded the whooole issue tracker and even fuzzed it a bit). Also running a patched build of Mesa after running into several bugs when trying out mesh shaders, a patched Fossil (https://fossil-scm.org/) because of bugs I randomly hit, a custom printer driver because the stock one sucks, custom firmware on my Siser Juliet cutter/plotter machine, ... and of course, barely any of this is anywhere online, and at least half of it isn't anything I wanted to do in the first place.
Anyway, I haven't shared this anywhere because I don't like how much AI-written wording it has, and I haven't really done any of the self-written analysis I wanted to put in there, but you can see the PNG analysis results at https://wizardmaxx.ing/difftest-png/. It compares against the 3rd edition, and you can select the 2nd edition if you want to for some reason. It's still missing an option to show what you'd care about by real-world judgement, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I keep doing the independent research in theory of AI despite my odds
I was recently laid off, so I've been pouring myself into a new paas offering and communications suite. Hoping to have something to show off here very soon. We will see.
Minimal recipe manager
i've been playing with this silly "game" inspired by one million checkboxes except the goal is to sort the board. something to kill time https://human-sort.app i like to think it's the same sort of work that's being done on severance
Lately my super fast anti gravity racing game. If you enjoyed F-Zero or Wipeout, you might like it.
A bunch of small apps, kinda getting SaaS out of my system.
https://github.com/hnarayanan/hello-guix - A GNU Guix installer for Apple Silicon Macs. :)
Interactive breathing exercises. Working towards a medical device version for asthma and COPD.
Working on Notekpr a local first and end to end encrypted alternative to notion and obsidian.
site: https://notekpr.md
I've been posting stuff on my blog https://blog.willmeye.rs
A place for independent film teams to capture visual references.
I vibe-made a Russian life simulator called Frontline Rush:
I vibe-proofed the ABC conjecture (IUT LEAN Fable):
https://github.com/oneman/motizukipdf and https://1234567890.help/
Yeah
The official website has launched for MinusPod
Remove ads from Podcasts and YouTube
Website: MinusPod.app Docs: docs.minuspod.app Demo: demo.minuspod.app
Just finished a little animated short story: Washed Up.
My main project is trying not to lose my mind, given all the things I can now create thanks to AI.
Jokes aside (although I'm not entirely joking about my mental health), my main project is https://auradistill.com: First-principles thinking for your AI agents.
It's not just about giving your personal AI agents "memory". It's about encoding memories in a way that can handle ambiguity and contradictions.
That project alone has got me completely hooked on building for and with LLMs.
I've got other projects too, but this is probably the one I've poured the most time and energy into.
I’ve been working on a web application framework in Go called https://atlas9.dev
forking the internet. taking internet technology and using if for community rather than (pick 1: greed, corporations, predation).
I'm a really big fan of Grand Theft Auto IV but its online scene never took off. I'm trying to build a multiplayer client a la FiveM/RageMP for it.
Triplec.fm
A not for profit, with the goal of helping more people listen to, and go experience live music, in Canada.
I'm working on a relational database called Turborel and a log-structured storage engine I maintain TidesDB.
Goose-based internal Matrix chatbot / custom agent to automate some tedium away in my company of ~1.
https://arcaide.foo - to visualize the architecture of your (LLM's) code.
small OSS projects to explore AI futures + safety:
https://doom-or-bloom.com and https://cultural-alignment.com
Adding tufting support to RapidCAM.app for CNC run makers. RapidCAM already supports 2.5D CNC, laser and rotary axis so tufting was a good fit.
StatsBrowser: https://www.statsbrowser.com
A statistical analysis suite that runs in the browser via webR. It provides step-by-step guides for running tests and insights on results containing statistical pitfalls. Aimed at students who struggle with traditional stats apps.
working on talk deep https://talkdeep.me, a little app for keeping in touch with friends after i moved countries. you pair with a friend and get one question a day, or go through decks of deeper questions together. i've never done an app before so building something from scratch has been a really fun creative outlet
been building BuildOpsy mostly writing about system design, infrastructure failures and the occasional “well, that was an expensive outage” postmortem.
Also building calculators for things engineers usually calculate in a spreadsheet at 2am. you can see some on the site(https://buildopsy.com/calculators.html)
Not really a "thing" but I'm trying to come up with effective strategies for LLMs to generate screenplays that are not terrible. I think I have some that seem to work.
Still Raygum! Letterboxd for music - https://raygum.com
Working on https://vostride.com/
Reddit alternative https://hissy.app it is currently offline though
working on an app which you/agents can put exact pieces from any websites you need into a one screen.(https://banquish.space)
I didn't want to switch/refresh bunch of tabs. That's why I made this one.
not screenshots. so you can still interact with the pieces like in normal web browsers.
I feel like this is the third one of the November thread!
That said I will say again, working on http://leafle.org my app (mostly for me) to find new books to read that I wouldn’t have thought of (mostly recently Cosmicomics) based on a deeper understanding of what I like in books than people who read X also read Y, that I can actually borrow right away from my local library. Works on ~6,500 public libraries around the world.
Fun project to play with reverse engineering using LLMs, and jev and things like that.
I want to make app like action but for repairs, like electronics and cars.
Client posts request and masters respond with their offers.
What you think about that guys?
I’ve launched two projects:
1. Novalede - https://www.novalede.com
I got tired of having newsletters in my inbox that I never read, and emails building up where you have to hunt for the important part, and not really being able to get the gist of whether the email affects me or not.
So I build an MCP connected newspaper. Ask your agent to publish them as articles where the lead is front and centre, and I can read it first thing in the morning. It’s surprisingly effective and catches so much context I’ve sort of stopped reading my email directly.
I also get it to pick the HN articles of interest to me and give me a summary of what the comments say. It’s nice to remove the sensationalism of how people react.
2. Bebril - https://www.bebril.com
This project is a fun one where you to state who you want to become and you are given mini quests to take that help you on your path to get there. I want it to be a choose your own adventure where you feel rewarded for action.
i've been building wearover and getalcor.com -- a chain of apps handing off content where possible with use of on-device AI , but burning tokens and building more than serving the product well to end users, and might just wind up my startup experiment and take up a job or contract.
I've really been enjoying using Codex as a headless remote agent on my home lab. I'll often pull it up from my phone and jam on some little project when inspiration strikes.
I kept bumping into the question of how to give it access to the things it needs without leaving my private keys and other credentials on the server though.
For SSH (and sudo through pam_ssh_agent_auth), I ended up building agent-auth and Agent Witness. Codex sees a normal SSH_AUTH_SOCK and supplies some context about why it needs a signature. If one of my Macs is available, agent-auth proxies the request to the 1Password SSH agent there. Otherwise it routes the request to Agent Witness on my phone.
Agent Witness runs as a PWA and is essentially a remote ssh-agent. The private keys are wrapped, encrypted, and stored in IndexedDB locally on the phone. The vault can only be unwrapped with a secret derived from a passkey, and all key handling and signing happens locally through the browser's Web Crypto APIs. The unwrapped keys are non-extractable CryptoKey objects (the web crypto APIs are pretty awesome!)
When a signing request comes in, the PWA gets a push notification. It shows me the reason Codex supplied, the command being run, and the key being requested. I authorize it with my passkey, the PWA signs the request, and only the resulting signature goes back to the server. The private key never leaves my phone.
https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/agent-auth https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/agent-witness
I also recently put together psst, which solves the related problem of handing a secret to Codex from 1Password. I give it a 1Password item-sharing link, it opens a local session where it decrypts the 1password item in memory, and Codex can inspect the available fields of the item before explicitly retrieving only the ones it needs. The CLI refuses to write secret values to a terminal, which helps keep them out of argv, shell history, and transcripts.
I’m sure I could work out a better approach where the agent absolutely cannot retrieve the secret since if it really wanted to read the secret, it could of course pipe the value into cat or whatever. The goal is to just make secret access explicit and avoid accidentally spraying credentials into places where they'll be retained. So far it’s been a very nice flow with agent browser.
tirreno - security framework
https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
Live demo: https://play.tirreno.com
Automating so many terrible chores with AI. Recently I automated pulling transactions from my banks (Canada, no open banking..) and putting them into Actual Budget. SimpleFIN or Plaid type services frequently break, make mistakes or require reauth every few hours for the banks here which makes them not so useful. Now I'm automating computing my taxes fully which gets pretty complicated because of international income, different assets etc. Its basically a data lake to process all kinds of financial data in various formats and compute stuff, moving lots of manual drudgery and complicated excel sheets into code.
I am building Esara – the AI hiring platform for candidate sourcing and explainable evaluation.
We’ve just incorporated in Berlin together with two great co-founding colleagues. Honestly never felt more excited.
Though it is a B2B tool, check it out: https://esara.ai
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...