alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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bepr: https://github.com/Aperocky/bepr. This allow shell access to your hosts behind NAT/Wifi with a server over outbound websocket, all by using the exact same package for client + server + user. Minimal footprint at 2mb binary size and wrapped as systemd/launchd service.
Made it to access my setup at home while I travel, without exposing any hosts. I'm aware there are other solutions, but this one you can control end to end at some setup cost.
Tmux control-mode client for Emacs
https://github.com/csheaff/tmux-control
I found myself ditching Emacs for iTerm when running TUIs inside tmux on remote hosts. I'm trying to replicate how good tmux is inside iTerm, but it's tough. wip.
My friend and I have been working on a game: Dozenal. It’s a number puzzle game (with daily challenges) where you have to combine different mathematical operations to fill a grid with “12”s.
It’s still an MVP so feedback extremely welcome!
I an working on Bloomberry (https://bloomberry.com), an alternative to Builtwith for finding companies that use a specific b2b product, such as Microsoft 365 (ie, bloomberry.com/data/microsoft365/)
Autonomous agents that assess your web app with hacker expertise at machine speed. SOC2/ISO27001 audit-ready reports in hours.
Working on a markdown linter and formatter https://mdsmith.dev in go lang. Checks style, readability, structure, and cross-file integrity.
Working on making my first video game (unannounced, https://gamedepartment.com). We're also spinning out some of our internal playtesting tools into a playtesting service that I think is going to be really cool.
I’m beta testing a small abstract strategy game I invented and for which I trained an alphazero style AI, https://span.game
I’m making a baby book for my son Henri featuring famous Henri’s through history.
I’m also building a zigbee free/busy eink display that only needs to powered once a year or so
Have been working on a modern replacement for Notational Velocity (last updated in 2011), I call it “neonv”. https://github.com/msnodderly/neonv
Still chipping away on Raygum! Like Letterbox for music.
For fun: https://squishy.franzai.com/
For curiosity: https://airplane-ai.franzai.com/ based on Gemma
For profit: optimizing my virtual desktop in the cloud setup for AI First workshops
AI agent deployments are happening completely automated nowadays, One command and there it is your agent is live. Recent news about AI agents cost explosions, more than estimated token usage has got me thinking, These are all detected post deployment, pre deployment, are the teams thinking this? Are they even considering who is responsible for what in case of an endless loop being executed that slowly raising the hidden costs.
Introducing - https://release-gate.com/
A pre deployment checker for AI agents that sits in your CI/CD pipeline, No infra required, just a python environment and you are ready to roll.
PS: Comments and suggestions most welcome!!!
I have been experimenting with methods of reading books and creating software for these methods.
For example, I was inspired by the activeness of typelit.io when reading - typing out an entire book helped keep my mind from wandering when reading. But typing the whole book is too tedious. I wrote a few scripts to mirror the words on an epub, which does help with focus but isn't quite good enough.
My current epub reader software I use requires you to press a button to reveal the next word. This has dramatically improved my reading comprehension, prevents inadvertent skimming, and keeps my mind from wandering.
I'm still experimenting but for those who have ADHD or are borderline ADHD, it's quite a revelation - I can finally read without my mind wandering.
An Eisenhower Matrix for my to-do app.
https://github.com/abstractspoon/ToDoList_Dev/tree/9.3---New...
Tech Talks Weekly
It's a weekly email with all the recently published software engineering conference talks. I also pick a few ones that are featured and write short TLDRs. This month, I'll should hit 10,000 readers, fingers crossed!
I wanted an easier way to do tasks with AI agents wit easy deployment flaw, simple config. work is still in progress.
An audio deduction game where you use a custom OS to restore a lost podcast.
A mulligan and training tool for cEDH (magic the gathering format) with puzzles inspired by chess and poker trainers
Still working on Val CMS: https://val.build Lots of PRs merged these last weeks and looking forward to getting native tanstack start integration finished.
Still working on Outstatic.com, a cms for stativ sites and markdown/mdx
Recently added support for Google and Magic link login, which is nice if you want non-technical people to make website edits.
I'm working on Kronotop, an open-source, distributed, transactional document database built on FoundationDB, featuring Redis protocol compatibility and a MongoDB-style query language.
Speeding up C/C++ compiler bootstrapping, starting at a single binary of <1KB. Currently it gets to GCC 4.7 in 2-3 minutes on x86_64 and aarch64: https://github.com/haampie/shpack
A X.509 Certificate lifecycle management, and secrets management SaaS designed from the ground up for home labs all the way up to enterprises. Built in PHP/Laravel and Rust.
I’m working on "Fetch", a native macOS client for ClickHouse.
The idea is to make querying ClickHouse feel more like using a polished desktop with ClickHouse native features :
It’s built in Swift/SwiftUI with Monaco as the SQL editor.
Screenshot: https://ibb.co/gbW4rW7G
1. A microcodegen and a deterministic code generator called Archiet which can go from some PRD to production ready solutions in 30 minutes or less and saves time and money.
2. An Open Source Enterprise Architecture Platform called Archie - OSS.
Stack based task manager with integrations with GitHub, Linear, and some others to manage and automatically update your immediate todo list, free while in beta (still very early beta)
Im currently working solo on the only autopilot agent and thinking partner for android. Its called twent.xyz . Wait. I got more to show you. Im also building signupdoggy.pages.dev which is an API based service that blocks fake signups. Could be temp emails, could be temp phone numbers, we block it all.
I’m working on Starglyphs, a Euler path constellation tracing game. Mostly I just like pretty space things. Hoping to get it out on desktop and mobile apps soon.
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Recently worked on https://fastsleep.app
This is an app to calm down a racing mind and fall asleep faster. Use cases: Stress, racing thoughts, insomnia etc.
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Vinyl-Tags: a set of command line tools to facilitate the process of preparing analog recordings for addition to music libraries. Fetch metadata and cover art from Discogs (or generate your own); co-run with Audacity to locate track boundaries efficiently; add the metadata to the audio tracks.
I keep thinking about what humans will need in an age when AI keeps getting better. https://www.makeaplace.com (new product launch is imminent).
Nothing besides normal work. Sometimes is good to do a break on personal projects after 3 years nonstop
Messing around with my Lambda Calculus tutorial repo. I just did a total rewrite of Nominal Inductive Types.
SMS texting for businesses at half the cost of legacy tools.
Planning to launch this week!
Building https://github.com/viggy28/streambed - a full Postgres running on S3 using DuckDB as the query engine.
Continuing to develop and market my first public project (https://fantasybook.bet/)
A fun and interesting union of fantasy sports and financial markets.
I am working on https://coderscreen.com/
an open source technical interview platform built for modern interview workflows like takehomes, agent coding sessions, as well as the standard leetcode-style questions.
Last week I've been working on 5 star booker, an 82-0 style wrestling booking game.
just hit 100k ppvs from people generating them
I’m working on a website where you can paste your NuGet package references and get notified by email if/when a package you’re using is found in a vulnerability database.
An audit of the active web, what CMS, hosting and technologies are used.
Custom python crawler getting 240 sites a second crawled and classified. ( homepages and minimal probes, no headless browsers )
Be interested to test some false positives, if you have a URL I'll tell you what I see :)
MathBreakers, Your Limitless Math Universe. It's a math game platform teaching fundamental grade school concepts like Fractions in an immersive 3D world with virtual manipulatives (no equations or worksheets).
Re-reading the Lean Startup to hone our GTM, market validation and growth engine.
(mathbreakers.com)
I am researching Proof of Possession for API authentication as a means of reducing the impact of credential their:
I am working on https://apxy.dev
I'm working on Deploy Crate https://deploycrate.com
It connects to your cloud accounts, provisions hardened servers, and handles deployments, logs, and monitoring.
Currently open for alpha (free) access
claude-brief: a live session summariser for Claude Code. It docks a pane right next to your terminal (iTerm2, tmux, kitty, ghostty, Apple Terminal) showing a running summary of what the current session is doing.
I built it after losing track of too many Claude Code terminals running at once - I'd tab between them and have no idea where each one was. Now I can glance at the dock and re-orient in a second.
Its a Claude code plugin - the README has install instruction https://github.com/tigerquoll/claude-brief
Feedback welcome.
In my last role I spent a year building an agentic coding platform used by hundreds of thousands of people. Along the way I tried building a hosting service on OpenClaw, and also ran Hermes myself for a while. Both projects have some great feature ideas, but when I tried to use them for real work they failed more often than not, and their security models worried me. I just couldn't see either one becoming something I'd trust enough for myself/friends/family. After a lot of exploration I realized that what I really wanted all along was to create automations using the coding agent I already work in every day. It turned out coding agents were the best tool for automating anything, not just code, as long as they had the right environment and tools to work with. I also spent 20 years leading Linux infrastructure and distributed systems teams. Anyone who's written service daemons knows that most of what we think of as "always on" is really just wake up, do some work, and go back to sleep, which is an efficient pattern to use and reason about. Cron has worked this way for decades.
So I built Clor, a CLI that lets your coding agent create "claws", which are background agents that automate anything on a schedule and run on your laptop, Mac mini, or a VM.
A claw can be defined and shared as a single CLAW.md file, which contains a bit of metadata (name, schedule, personality, etc.) and one or more ordered tasks. Each task is a real agent run with full tool use, or a plain bash step. Anything you can ask your agent to do once, a claw can do repeatedly. One of my claws tidies my inbox every few minutes, labeling obvious spam, rescuing legit email that got mislabeled, and starring threads I owe a reply to, etc. It's way smarter than Gmail's filters because it actually reads my mail instead of just matching rules.
So also working on making CLAW.md a completely open standard for sharing https://clor.com/blog/claws-md-open-format-for-agentic-cron-...
Installing is the usual command on Linux/macOS in the terminal: curl -fsSL https://clor.com/install.sh | bash. That will set up the CLI, a small scheduling daemon, and a skill that you can run from your agent, /claws in Claude Code or $claws in Codex.
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Thanks!
A DSL for machine learning programs: https://pypie.dev/ Embedded in Python, written like Python, but with static type safety (e.g. it catches tensor shape mismatches at compile time)
Working on caddy-snake, a python plugin for Caddy: https://github.com/mliezun/caddy-snake
And on a new post about how to design web apps for the AI-era for my blog: https://mliezun.com