alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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Just rolled out a big new update for my video cloud platform https://www.kollaborate.tv with a new player, side-by-side playback comparison and a big improvement in accessibility.
Currently we’re using AWS and Backblaze B2, but I’m formulating a plan to move to colocated servers. Not being billed per GB will open up a lot of new opportunities. Even at today’s server prices the math still adds up.
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...
I've found it hard to keep up with movie and TV news (particularly when the new Backrooms film is coming out).
So, I built an agent to help remind me -- it's a subscription based service that sends you updates every morning, and stores your preferences so it can learn what you like.
I am working on the Learnix operating system (https://gitHub.com/sagi21805/LearnixOS) Mainly an educational project, to understand and teach about OS and Rust concepts (The OS is written in Rust)
Working on https://mdview.io - markdown reader for big documents, including navigatable mermaid diagrams, LaTeX, Fixing broken syntax and ton of other features. It's early stage but getting popular really fast( I guess it just does it's job right)
Building tenuo.ai (https://github.com/tenuo-ai/tenuo): task-scoped authorization for AI agents. Rust implementation of capabilities + cryptographic offline verification.
Still chugging along and curating https://hnarcade.com Submit your games!
Just started working on a book to celebrate the 50th year of our symposium, which is coming up in 5 years. The initial idea is a how-to book, filled with essays from past contributors, but since we only started yesterday - that may change.
Wrote a Forth VM in C in about 1996 based on TCJ articles by Brag Rodriguez. Managed to get it to compile with modern GCC this morning and fix all the horrible issues with valgrind. Trying to adapt it to a context where it'll be usable for a spreadsheet-like system with reasonable decimal numeric precision. Consider it an RPL calculator with an Excel-like front end.
A podcast that isn’t about AI (in the normal way)! I started Pagenerd with some friends to talk about science fiction - loosely defined - and give us a chance to hang out. It’s pretty good. Find it at https://pagenerd.com which links to all the usual places.
https://acoust.io began as a project to learn React. However, I received a few customers after posting it on Reddit. I’m still figuring out the best way to position it in the crowded market, but I’m enjoying the process of building and learning.
I'm doing this with my son. Dcflagproject.com
Replit for the website (he did the first 80%), Gemini to make the flyers and he'll be walking the neighborhood and talking to neighbors.
I'm improving my web app to learn languages with short stories: https://webbu.app. I've been making it easier to track your progress, hear pronunciation of words, and adding more advanced levels.
A scripting language that is very fun to write and lets you make interactive music, installations, generative compositions etc https://github.com/audion-lang/audion
hack music
I've been working on Betterleaks for the past three months. It's the successor to Gitleaks since I'm not focused on that project much anymore. I just released v1.2.0 which added GitHub as a source to scan for secrets against and a new filtering system powered by CEL for more expressiveness.
wasm based in browser steganography with a full file system/viewer embedded.
I've been working a faster GUI for Claude Code //other CLI tools (https://fluidstate.ai) that works in your terminal and can run multi instances in a tab and you can tab between them quickly regardless the tool
Diving deeper into woodworking and knocking out a few cabinetry/storage projects with the work-in-progress up at at https://shopspec.io
I‘m building a way to record and replay AI image and video generation API calls to any provider so that in testing, people can save money. This is part of our AI media model gateway https://lumenfall.ai
I'm trying to make it easier for non-technical folks to publish websites: https://weejur.com
82 sites published so far, with a really weird and wide range of content.
Working on a simple WYSIWYG website editor to go with the current functionality.
Been slowly chipping away at my vehicle building browser game https://mechacraft.io. For those interested in following the progress I made a discord channel: https://discord.gg/bXH66ZDBKr
A Hacker News mobile client that I'm very proud of, specifically designed for non-native English speakers with automatic translation features.
From 50 to 5 seconds. The world's fastest and most up to date investment ai. It's powered directly through our database to ground the information and reduce hallucinations. Still in development though.
Building https://typequicker.com
An AI first typing application.
I think anyone can learn touch typing and potentially 2x their typing speed.
We make typing practice engaging and data driven.
I'm building Lexeme (https://trylexeme.com), a SaaS service that tracks how AI models like ChatGPT cite and describe your product vs. competitors, and tells you what to fix first based on estimated revenue exposure.
I'm building an AI Dashboard & AI Leaderboard where you can see who generates the most lines of code using Codex, Claude, Copilot, Cursor, etc. https://wakatime.com/ai
NixOS VMs for agents: https://machine0.io
Recently published https://hngram.com/
It’s an n-gram viewer for Hacker News comment data.
Still working on daily data updates, etc but it’s live!
I've spent several years developing a few dozen solitaire/puzzle online games:
I am currently rewriting the engine to add ~400 games this month.
https://vistacker.com - local first task and note taking TUI and iOS app, disconnected operation, auto sync across multiple machines with optional encryption so the service can’t see your data.
I tried to remake Slay the Spire as a text based game. With buttons though. I used Godot.
https://beatquestgames.itch.io/textbattlegd
Completely open source if you ask and promise not to make fun of me.
Kafkaesque, a wire-protocol compatible Kafka mocking service.
https://github.com/dcminter/kafkaesque
Worth kicking the wheels if you're currently using embedded or dockerised Kafka in your tests.
I’m working on a project that blocks agents from breaking rules. The rules are enforced through hooks and work across Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot.
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Well, all of a sudden, now that I kinda quit my gaming time sink, all my mini projects are finally being completed. All small, but useful, things for my setup that seem to slowly become a part of a bigger personal project. And between that kid and lots of books.
Ngl, it is weird for me now. If this is midlife crisis, I am loving it.
Working on https://ottex.ai - voice ai for busy professionals.
Think wisprflow + granola with 30+ top STT models under single login and pay as you go billing model with 25% markup over API.
My partner & I have been making this wordle/wheel of fortune inspired daily - https://crosses.io
Each guess can be a single letter or a full word. Revealing letters helps you make word guesses, which are more efficient since it reveals all instances of those letters across the board.
It's been really gratifying seeing friends enjoy the game, now we're trying to figure out how to get in front of more players. Leave us some feedback if you stop by
MCP that lets you call chatgpt pro, grok, perplexity, gemini web, web subscriptions from codex, claude, opencode, gemini
Tryke! A Rust-based Python test runner with a Jest-style API.
Working on an idiosyncratic tool that lets users use AI to help write statements of work without losing the high bar for accuracy and consistency that these documents require. Right now, it's somewhere between Typst and Gemini in Google Docs, but not as good as either yet.
I'm building aiki.sh so Claude and Codex can work together without babysitting
I launched my live polling app https://suggestionboard.io, got some first users, now looking at how they use it and trying to improve the experience.
I'm working on https://releasedog.com/ - It collects changes from JIRA/slack/github and create a changelog/release notes.
I'm working on app for walking based on the practice of walk, talk, meditate.
For now it's just for iOS but currently I'm working on porting to Android.
Context aware local AI assistant https://hitoku.me/draft/ I believe private local AI is the future for every day's use.
Working on benchmark arena for AI agents with my wife.
We grab interesting business problems, turn them into fun challenges for hundreds of AI engineers to find the best architecture for. Insights are shared back with the community.
It is a fun learning process with unexpected scaling challenges.
https://pockli.com - I've always needed a better workflow for managing the stream of documents people hand me — then expect me to pull out of a hat months or years later, like a magician.
Hackerman Text editor.
595 days and counting.
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Smart documents for teams. Fast, Open, and Self-Hostable.
Basically a much faster Notion.
Bought a TI dev board with c7x and c66 dsp cores. Have it doing PEQ and FIR room correction, along with tube amplifier emulation.
Will be trying to implement a virtual bass array next.