alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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A minimal build script of Hyprland from latest tag on Ubuntu 26.04
Multi region AWS is the flavor of the quarter or half - for projects that were not terra formed.
Building ConvoLens [1] - app to explore the content of video interviews from YouTube channels I like (such as Dwarkesh Patel's): research by keyword, RAG, visualization of discussed topics with a 2D projection, semantic graph, and the possibility to generate a new video or audio from a playlist of video segments.
Supports only YouTube as the data source, and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite for processing, but it can easily be tweaked. Runs locally with Docker compose.
Working on TRIPA, a internal pack format to save huge amount of small images to cloud storage without dying from the write costs.
I'm building ai saas web — the simplest way for user and small agencies to try LLM from lab. The problem I kept seeing: site have happy clients but almost no evalution on their site. Asking is awkward, clients say "sure!" and then never give any feedback.
Building Cursor IDE, but for knowledge workers. Domain will go live soon on https://document.bot
Multiplayer tactical shooter inspired by id tech 3 era, using Godot.
More movement than CS, less than quake
Focused on infiltration mode - one team stealing a briefcase back to base with the other on the defense
https://sauna-assistant.com - sauna master in your pocket
I've been migrating my projects from Dagger to Bazel. It's... slowly making progress. Claude really wants to take shortcuts and I've never used Bazel before.
a general-purpose mobile agent, trying out on SLMs that work on phones. In case there's no internet.
I am working on a free node based solids modeller perfect for 3d printing, carpentry or hobbyists. Its roughly similar to Rhino/Grasshopper. I call it Nodillo!
Check out this twisty vase demo: https://nodillo3d.com/s/VmP0nJdKRcPazQ1g
You can also share you files and create sharable configurations as well. Here is the same vase as a configurator: https://nodillo3d.com/v/a9REIEZIDYGtzZRA
I would like to do a more detailed intro class to help people learn how to model with nodes.
Hope you enjoy it!
Working on the sides to build a completely private and on-device Personal Health Records app.
More context https://lepisma.xyz/2026/02/24/harp/
https://kerns.ai/ - Get answers to questions with citations, visualize papers/books/reports.
Wondering if there are other similar tools out there which people love, and why ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude won't let you do the same in their native apps.
I just became a father and feel like it could be helpful if I have an app tracking my son's status. He has premature birth and we're all very worried about him.
I don't want my son's data to be sent to any 3rd party so I vibe coded: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bebilog/id6759827652
I needed a cheap alternative to Cloudwatch etc and didn't want to depend and pay Cloud tax.
Zero ops S3 based log search: https://github.com/amr8t/blobsearch
It's still early, because I actually had some nice weather in the PNW, but looking at porting NanoClaw to use FreeBSD jails and ZFS snapshots. Why? I use linux because I have to - docker/docker images is what we are stuck with. For personal stuff - I prefer the BSDs.
Strafter - generate aftermovies from strava activities
Demo fase, showing the branded version to potential clients. We iterate on it with their feedback.
I’m working on Green Tea. A open source note app built on Pi agent framework. Basically gives you the power of a coding agent harness for knowledge work in an electron app.
No accounts required, all data is yours and lives on your computer.
Check it out: https://greentea.app
AI-proof careers leaderboard
https://www.ai-proof-careers.com/
Super annoyed by the "AI will take your jobs" hysteria, so I pulled BLS data and analyzed talks by AI researchers and a few industry folks, and ranked 900+ BLS jobs by AI resilience.
A campaign management tool for automated contact form outreach. It helps users manage websites, detect contact pages and forms, and fill them automatically using LLM-powered field matching.
I’m recreating a tiny version of vLLM in C++ and CUDA from scratch (high throughput LLM inference server)
I’m working on a new internet.
There is a Vulkan based browser which you can use to connect to the only public site so far, a playable breakout clone.
I wanted to build a landing page for my gf, but since LLMs make it so simple I'm building SaaS for Psychoeducation.
Modifications to my Land Cruiser j90
- LED daytime running lights / off-road LED light bar
- Winch
- Front left – tie rod end (both)
- Rear axle – pinion bearing (loud while driving)
- Right rear brake caliper – brake fluid leaking from the piston
- Boost chip (chip + turbo tee), Kill switch
We're pivoting our growth agency to be "AI-Native" this quarter. Getting everyone on the team to begin their tasks with "let's instruct Claude to do this" rather then themselves.
Lots of this is going to involve getting people more up to speed on CS, can't wait.
I've been working a light-weight API gateway for dev use that supports auth and RBAC
Open-source security framework https://www.tirreno.com
Value-study-practice-o-matic is the best name I've come up so far. It's just an automated way of practicing rendering when painting.
I just finished adding uACPI to my hobby OS and have all the pieces necessary to write up a crude version of Pong. Since pong was my first ‘real’ project when I started teaching myself how to code, this has that extra bit of sentimentality for me :)
I'm building https://preflight.qa, an opinionated take on Email QA for developers and marketing teams.
A simple PWA habit tracker that sends your money to effective charities if you don't stick with your habits
I’m working on Radiant Computer: https://radiant.computer — a new from-scratch personal computer and OS.
I just built a little tool that takes a Fora itinerary as input and creates a google calendar (.ics) feed as output.
I built a daily puzzles site at https://dailybaffle.com, and I'm working on promoting it and releasing the mobile app for it this month. Turns out it's a lot of work to promote things!
I'm working on an appointment management app (no AI) for Barre studios: https://www.usemojo.app/en/barre
I built a lightweight (<1mb) chrome extension (with over 600,000 downloads) that lets you chat with page, draft emails and messages, fix grammar, translate, summarize page, etc.. You can use models from OpenAl, Google, and Anthropic.
Yes, you can use your own API key as well.
A few things.
I've been on/off working on a Forth compiler for the NES. It will be open source soon enough but I'm not happy with the code right now as it's extremely messy, repetitive, and buggy, but I think it's turning out ok. I am resisting the urge to use Claude to do all the work for me, since that's depressing.
I've also been working on a clone of the old podcasting website TalkShoe. It's nothing too complicated. It's mostly an excuse to learn a bit more about Asterisk and telephony stuff. I'm hoping to have something fully usable in about a month or two.
I forked the main MiSTer binary due to some disagreements I had with Sorg in how he's running things [1]. My fork was largely done by Codex and Claude, but the tl;dr of it is that it has automatic backup of your saves, tagging and versioning of your saves, and it abuses the hell out of SQLite to give better guarantees of write safety than the vanilla MiSTer binary gives you. I've been using it for a few weeks now and it seems to work fine, and it's neat to be able to tag and version saves.
I think that's mostly it. I'm always hacking on something so there might be a straggler there.
[1] https://github.com/Tombert/Main_MiSSus/blob/master/README.md
A proxy server to give my agent access to my Gmail with permissions as granular as I like. Like can create filters to custom label but not send to trash. As my inbox is at 99% due to years of zero discipline giving my email out to every company on the web :)
A no-code platform for building SaaS apps with AI (serverless): https://saasufy.com/
Making improvements on this tetris meets block puzzle game
I'm learning how to train transformer models locally to do useful work instead of having to pay for claude. I regularly update my blog here https://seanneilan.com/posts
PayByFace is a nominee in the Romania Startup Awards 2026, we have about 1 day and 18 hours left to get as many votes as possible! Help us win this award if you believe in our project :) Vote here: https://strawpoll.com/05ZdzP64Qn6
I've been building a little io style game since Christmas, it's been fun!
My kid played it, and didn't stop for 45 minutes so I think that's a win :-)
An interactive Greek & Roman Mythology course: https://www.scrivium.com
If we can nail this one, then an entire Oxford-grade education in the same style.
https://eggbot.app/ an app for the widely OpenSource available EggBots to draw easter eggs. :)
I’m making an RPG Engine/toolset (i.e. Final Fantasy SNES or Game boy) that targets iOS/Android and the tools themselves are shippable in the mobile client (or web if you want some actual screen real estate)
I'm trying CM108AH with external ADC (for lower mic noise). I'm at the stage that I opened datasheets for both and started kicad.
Invoicing app for individual workers in Europe. Currently I am focused on compliance (it is Europe after all)). Check it here: https://www.haiku.lt
https://taxmax.dev - AI tax agent that helps teams optimally classify their spend - we're looking for design partners if you want a free report.
So many things these days I just love being an engineer rn - ai scheduling assistant - polymarket trading bots - ai assisted form filler - games my 6 y/o dreams up - openclaw workflows - and countless hackathon-y projects at work that never would have seen the light of day without my best friend Claude