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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Trying to grow tomatos through winter.
My next sci-fi or fantasy novel - it could go either way at the moment.
Koaches.app helping prepare and practice behaviorial interviews.
My husband created an AI-powered website, and I've been using it to generate engaging AI videos for social media. This not only helps promote his website (seedeo.ai) but also expands our website's content library, which gives me a great sense of accomplishment.
Finding purpose in life.
I am working on a Rust-based ext4 driver. The idea is that it can be re-used as a FUSE-based driver as well as (Windows) kernel driver (eventually).
Most of the essential features are implemented so far, but some (mandatory) features are lacking (xattrs support). My goal is to get to a full ext4 implementation that also supports ext2 and ext3 read/write.
The initial motivation was to have a pet project with a use-case for Rust, as I wanted to improve my Rust coding skills, after I did some work on a game server implementation in Rust earlier [1]. My goal is to have an implementation where I have digested every line mentally, which is something that pretty much excludes slop-like use of AI for large scale code generation. And of course I want to really trust the code that touches my files via raw hard disk access. Hence, I use AI mainly for unit tests and (scoped) code rewriting when my code gets too verbose and cumbersome.
In the long run I'd want to add fuzzing to the implementation, so if anyone has experience on this, I'd be interested in getting some pointers.
AT1C Protocol AI Agents require Human consent. Don't trust us Verify the Receipt. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@at1c/sdk
oh you know, just ai-stuff
Not really sure what to call it, Linux kernel ish implemented in JS so you can run it in the browser. Each program runs in WASM. Everything bootstrapped from a C/Cpp compiler compiled from source with a new target. Also kinda turned into Docker for WASM.
Recommended for people that feel a strong urge to run a browser inside a browser.
https://slopshare.dev/v0.1.5/wine/
Also quite useful to run coding agents sandboxed inside the browser, with HTTP policies and "backend managed skills/extensions". Compiles Codex from source (has a rust compiler), runs pi agent and CC (the old node one) on a custom javascript runtime on top of quickjs compiled inside the environment.
Everything is static JS (or the robots are lying to me)
I'm rebuilding a benchtop CNC milling machine.
Honestly? Still just trying to get hired.
But apart from that, I just updated my website's theme to something I wanted to do for quite a while now – a fantasy desktop! If you'd like to check it out: https://0xff.nu
I'm also trying to just learn new things with the time I was refunded by being unemployed.
Since the 1.0 announcement for flet.dev I have been working on making small apps to make DXF files for CNC projects with drawn previews.
https://studio.flet.dev/run/bicQWc3Aul/
which is now at a working state for rabbet joinery boxes with a sliding lid, or omitting the lid:
https://community.carbide3d.com/uploads/default/original/3X/...
Next up is a hinged lid option and cleaning up the wireframe preview to look better/be more accurate.
Uh, well, I've been maniacally obsessed with building my own harness/factory/memory & context layer/build/ship/deploy pipeline because, well.. I like to automate things.
Take a look; https://useflower.dev
working on apyhub mcp: to enable all apyhub apis to be available for agents. https://apyhub.com/mcp
I'm working on a new relational / logic language inspired by datalog and Bruce MacLennan's pioneering work on relational programming, but adopting the open-world assumption to allow missing values / heterogeneous data and enforce data integrity. I think logic languages will become increasingly important in the LLM era to provide strong correctness guarantees, and as a source of reinforcement learning. And I'm super fascinated by relational data models -- I think they have many advantages over the object-oriented view.
https://github.com/roland-redmount/atom https://roland-redmount.github.io/atom/
It's work in progress, many features are not completed. Any feedback is appreciated!
I'm working on two moderately large projects right now, both of which are interesting to me and maybe no one else, but why not share?
The first is withfire.app, which is basically a productization of the AI driven resume tailoring pipeline I used during my last job search. The landing page is still (AI) sloppy, but I think it has some neat features:
- a slick bookmarklet intake system for new job postings - just click the bookmarklet and the job is parsed automatically and added to your list
- improve-over-time tailoring: each tailoring will find skills the posting mentions that you don't have in your profile and ask you whether you have that skill, so your profile gets better and more specific over time
- nice, human-looking output options that look almost pixel for pixel like the hand-rolled resumes I used to submit
This system increased my hear-back rate for jobs by ~5x when I implemented it, and I figured it might be worth productizing. If you're interested in poking at please feel free to reach out! This is the first app I've ever built using AI end-to-end and it's been an awesome learning experience.
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The second thing I'm working on is an astrophotography tool called ministar (https://github.com/galbacarys/ministar). The premise is basically, let's automate the hard parts of untracked astrophotography by using plate solving to help you point your camera to your target, and then live-stacking the result taking into account the rotation of the Earth. It's very early days and hacky as fuck, but i'm hoping to port it to Linux/Raspberry pi in the near future so that you can use just a DSLR, a 3 way head, a tripod, a power bank and an SBC for a minimal but high quality astronomy setup anywhere. I took my first shots of the h-Persei cluster last night and the results were really great, I'm hoping to get a longer shot at Andromeda later this week.
If you're interested in either of these and wanna chat, ping me at gabethebando (at) proton (dot) me, I'm kinda loving this brave new world where my side projects actually gain enough legs fast enough for me to stay interested in them
Trying to finish up a command line tool in go to interface with my Gramps Web service. Got really into genealogy and while ancestry, the Mormons, etc. Are helpful sources, I want to own my own data. LLMs are fantastic at genealogy work but there is a missing space for interaction with gramps via CLI. It's been vibed but cleaning up the code to make it worthy of being released publicly has proven a chore. We don't need more slop projects and I don't want to add to the problem.
https://pagey.site - A 100% free static site hosting for all your (and mine) vibe-coded slop. Truly 100% free. No strings attached.
As of now, it hosts more than 11K sites and 4.5K+ users within just 5 months of launch. It's been an honour to run it, truly.
I'm still running and improving it on almost daily basis.
Side hobby: Improving the gameplay of a multiplayer browser game. Rimpark (https://rimpark.gg) launched ~1.5y ago.
I'm self hosting a GLM 5.3 Flash, and with it: adding new mechanics, fixing bugs, etc.
It's been a learning journey so far: how to run inference, setup agentic systems, experimental loops, and prevent slop.
This week, I'm happy that my agent system can implement a new feature e2e with not a lot of human intervention in code reviews. Still reading every line, didn't YOLO (yet lol).
I "accidentally" created one of the fastest modern JavaScript frameworks out there: https://signy.dev/
...according to my own benchmarks (yeah, I know how that sounds).
Next, I'm planning to submit it to independent third party benchmarks, hoping to find out whether my results are accurate... or not :)
I've also just finished a CSS framework: https://iriscss.com/
Now I'm working on a new backend programming language that runs on the Erlang BEAM, along with a few web applications built using this tech stack.
I'm working on acoustic levitation using ultrasound.
Starting with a parabolic approach for this initial version, but the next version I'm working on uses a much more complex flat plane with phased array of 40khz ultrasound transmitters.
Just for research purposes, no real goal in mind other than learning about it.
I’ve been fooling around with a lot of consumer GPU hardware and having a fun time. There are so many rabbit holes and interesting parts available to piece a Rube Goldberg of a performant clanker together.
User documentation. Oof
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Launched Diligly today. Investor-ready data rooms for startups.
An MIT re-implementation of an AGPL project with a very anti AI community.
getting rid of ai slop that has consumed the internet.
email, messaging, and social media with zero ai generated content.
www.channel.is
Ur is an (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.
I've been learning kubernetes with the help of Claude Opus and trying to build it into a course which others might find useful: https://gravitypersists.github.io/kubernetes-from-the-proble...
It's not meant to be super in-depth, more so aimed at understanding the high-level details and motivations of k8s. I figured that the best way to do that was to pose each chapter as an evolution of a startup experiencing a problem, and showing how k8s solves that problem, by treating the reader like the technical manager in the situation.
I'm not a k8s expert, so I can't definitively say it's "my course" but I will say, we're at an interesting time where you can contribute authorship to something and learn it at the same time. I'm spending more time steering the output the more I learn things, so it's not just slop.
A bloated club distro to make sure everyone has a standardized environment for automated testing frameworks, context specific documentation, and viable applications. =3
I'm so fucking tired. I built this tool, it's great, I love it, but its full capabilities are too complex to udnerstand. Because of that I struggle with marketing, as everyone is too lazy to try it out. Because of that I get no feedback, nothing to improve, and I can't make the tool any simpler, as otherwise it defeats the magic behind it.
Pivoting into content creation. It's gonna be a series of videos of me programming, without AI assistance, so that some echo of the old ways persists, or at least is a little bit louder, for my having been here to preserve it. Mainly it will be work on personal projects I hold dear. I was inspired by the likes of Tsoding, although like Hayyoth I type into a box to narrate rather than speaking, as no one really wants to hear me blab.
Fixing a leaky skylight
Daily crossword puzzle app https://29words.com
I have been vibe coding with LLMs to see if the structure of latent space could be used to identify culturally bound concepts, like "fan death" and having it optimize runs of Qwen on my local GPU to test theories.
www.venndiagrammer.com
A traditional roguelike! Lots of fun and challenging myself to make sprites.
EV software. perf book. something edu/political related. a design for an upgrade to voting systems. ssh BBS game. mostly, EV software
https://www.wherewhen.cc/, a travel planner, because nothing had everything I wanted. Wherewhen allows you to fix some times (eg a restaurant reservation) and moves everything else around that.
https://github.com/timbran-project/moor
Multiuser programmable persistent worlds. Compatible with LambdaMOO. Since 2022.
I'm working on decorating my homepage[1]. Other than that, I'm working on a language.
Currently working on adding support for iPhone Duo to my hacker news app Hack. The app has been around for 9 years and when I made it, the menu bars and navigation buttons were custom views. That doesn't seem to work well for iPhone duo due to its vertical stack menu on the right side. So, I've been switching over to iOS native navigation bars and menu bars along with a bunch of other improvements. I was hoping to have it done couple weeks ago but I had to leave country for a family emergency. So I am working on it this week. It's mostly done, I'm just doing some final testing now and will submit to Apple this week:
Merge into one of the other copies:
(3 days ago /25p/56c) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389501
(7 days ago /23p/77c) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328340
infra engineering meanwhile trying to build some stuff for my own. also trying to finish cs master’s
Mostly trying to think about what career to pivot to, since SWE wages are going to get crushed in the next 5-10 years.
I've been working on online payment rails for businesses, developers and agents called Tuppence (https://tuppence.ai).
Accept online card payments from just 0.79% (UK) and earn 0.89% on all card spend [1], or get paid out to your bank.
I'm building tuppence to be available in the US, and 20 EU countries.
I'm getting a Point of Sale (POS) manufactured in the UK [2] for those who want to accept payments in person with card readers.
My goal is to help people sell their goods and make a living without paying over the odds for the privilege.
I charge a competitive fee for payment processing, give money back on card spend (with no cashback caps/limits) and do not charge saas fees or lock people into contracts.
Tuppences currently allows people to sell online with a store builder, expense management, payment links, direct debits & bookings - essentially Tuppence is a 'business' layer on top of what you get from the likes of Stripe, Adyen and Checkout.com. There's also have a 'connect' platform, so you can roll this out to your marketplace business.
Next on my roadmap is ticketing and 'treasury'. Treasury i'm personally excited about as you'll be able to earn 4% yield on your earnings, FDIC Insurance (FSCS in the UK), multi-currency banking in fiat balances such as USD, EUR, and GBP, or stablecoin balances like OUSD and USDC, and have bank account numbers to send or receive funds.
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It's brand new, i'm still testing payment -> payout flows. These take a little time to verify on live payment rails.
Happy to give some fee-free payment processing for those who reach out and want to be early adopters, I can be reached at [email protected], or comment on thread.
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Tech Stack TLDR:
* TypeScript monorepo covering the API, dashboard, docs, mobile app and SDKs. * The API runs on Ts.ED over Express with TypeORM and Postgres. * Background jobs use pg-boss, so the queue lives in Postgres and there’s no Redis or separate broker. * The dashboard, till and storefront are React + Vite + Tailwind, the docs and help centre are Astro, and the mobile app is React Native/Expo. We ship SDKs for Node, Python, iOS, Android, React Native and WordPress, plus an MCP server and agent tools. * Everything runs on Google Cloud Run and Cloud SQL.
References:
[1] Card issuing: https://tuppence.ai/cards [2] Point of sale: https://tuppence.ai/pos/ridge/
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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