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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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.
I've been on HN since it launched, so I've got thick skin and don't mind critical feedback. Please do give me any questions/comments/suggestions here or via email [email protected]
Thanks!
I'm mostly working on Bor in my free time. Bor is a policy manager for the Linux desktop: https://getbor.dev/
https://github.com/gagarwal304/meridian - Simplest way to analyze your opentelemetry data from claude code to optimize claude.md for better prompting
Working on a claims automation service for a pet insurance company I work for. Interesting because its backoffice facing but still helps our end users to get their reimbursements faster and makes the feedback loop when we need more documentation from them shorter.
Mostly offboarding stuff from “the cloud” due to geopolitical instability and sovereignty issues.
A CPU only benchmark for typical data-science and ML tasks that I can run on a few different systems that will help me figure out what the next system I should buy is. I have no idea what Apple silicon is like for these tasks.
Trip planner for Japan. Any feedback, insights, feature requests welcome.
Predicting human IQ through someone's social media posts and written responses to text with AI models using all our proprietary IQ data at https://www.riotiq.com
Google Docs for Markdown, real-time collaborative Markdown editor.
Attemping to write my own CDCL SAT solver right now. I've experimented in the past with a DP & DPLL SAT solver. I'm currently somewhat mentally stuck on how to create the derived clause after a conflict, but I'll get there :)
Im working on a web-based general purpose tree editor with some unique features. https://github.com/justindmassey/tree-editor
Still working on a Reservation System I'm thinking of making FOSS. Not trying to plug it, but it's all I've been working on lately (next to the job that brings in the bread).
Working on AI security and governance (MCP + LLM gateways, fine-grained access control, DLP, monitoring, etc.) It's a lot more fun than it sounds. :)
Working on continuously improving my docker image for running OpenCode in an isolated and security-focused environment.
I am working on a linter for EPUBs for issues not covered by EPUBCheck/Ace by DAISY.
The goals: speed, accuracy of diagnostics (e.g. exact problem start/end position in the XHTML), clear issue descriptions including references, utilizing SARIF.
I'm working on a real scale, real time map of the solar system: https://spacemap.co
I’m working on a package that exposes Apple’s local model as a provider in Opencode and Raycast: https://github.com/localcodeai/localcode
I made Docker not suck for large images. 2-10x faster depending on the operation. I’ve spent the past two weeks burning down the last bits needed to release a BuildKit integration.
[NO-AI] [https://newspeaklanguage.org]
1) Using Chrome's Isolated Web App technology and the afforded TCPSockets in the browser, I am resurrecting an ancient, windows desktop only, TCP protocol for connecting to * from web applications. All Newspeak, all the time.
2) Re-writing my friends football pool in Newspeak. The Squeak/Seaside version has served him well for more than a decade but I've grown tired of the setup. My VPS server got hacked recently affording the impetus to try another iteration. Storing all the data locally in IndexedDB, using my own Newspeak library for that API.
* While I have no problem being "left behind", I refuse to actively assist others in "getting ahead".
Working on native mac apps that should be features. Built my first one: https://relaylabs.cc/switchboard Another 2-3 in the pipeline
I think that the IoT open source software landscape is missing a simple middleware to abstract the various network providers. I'm trying to fill that gap and hope to author a "show HN" soon about that :-)
I’m working on a time series management & analysis tool. The goal is to provide simple ways to work with time series data, including an API and visualisation.
I created a free golf app with advanced visualization none of the paid apps have.
New in the latest release: you can print your personalized Playbook at home (print, cut, fold, staple).
I've been playing on a national amateur golf tour for over ten years. Before each event, I'd spend hours on Google Earth — figuring out where to aim on every hole and which club to hit. It got very cumbersome very soon. I wanted a tool that did the spatial reasoning for me. Take my dispersion, the wind, the elevation, the hazards — and just show me the right line on a flyover. Visually, not in numbers.
So I built Golf Playbook (iOS).
Free, no subscription. Built our course data from OpenStreetMap instead of licensing an expensive commercial database. Different cost structure, different price.
Tech: SwiftUI, Apple Foundation Models, OpenStreetMap data. Many nights and weekends. Always looking for feedback.
App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/golf-playbook-strategy-gps/id1...
Website: https://playbook.golf
I'm working on an AI tool for organizing a job search. Integrates LinkedIn messaging, email, and calendar. Automates the tedious stuff.
I am working on https://startupforstartups.com, a digital presence solution for small businesses.
A platform to get user feedback and conversion insights where anyone can pay to get a specific amount of users to their thing.
Daily agentic news briefing to email, audio, and RSS, with memory. https://betabriefing.ai - free for now if you want to try it!
Been deep diving into visual model architectures. Currently running some small evaluations on an idea around unlabeled mask segmentation that will run efficiently on mobile phone hardware. Looking promising so far!
Working on the theory to unify all existing fragmented ideas on human psychology.
Im working on a batteries included and (aiming to be) production deployment ready go sdk for all things MCP:
If you have a business that relies on reviews, I'm looking for a beta tester!
GetSetReply.com aims to:
1. Get you more reviews
2. Avoid negative reviews
3. Respond to reviews
You can email me via my email in my profile.
A habit building app that sends money to charity if you didn't do the thing.
Synthetic aperture simulator. I could never get finding to build so decided to do it myself.
Same post was just asked yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514461
https://github.com/TheSquake/epycell
Jupyter notebook in terminal with native editor inside cells.
A share collab rich text editor: https://collabedit.duckdns.org/ and trying get back to open source contrbutions.
I am trying to create an agent-first CRM among other things.
https://github.com/crmkit/crmkit
So far so good.
I'm working on https://docx-editor.dev/, open-source, .docx editor library for building document apps.
A way to access social media content read only without an account, with HTML, RSS/Atom and at some point ActivityPub probably. I will probably post here in a few weeks when PoC will up.
https://shellnox.dev - instant linux vms via an ssh api. Svales to zero, pay only for what you use
a place for agents to exchange information
Snapshot-fork microVM sandboxes for AI agents on Kubernetes.
Working on a word puzzle game - https://www.pentacrypt.com
Working on a social Trading network to automaticlly capture, document and share how you trade https://docutive.com/
A new CLI for https://github.com/dirac-run/dirac and a paper that may or may not ever publish
Embarking on my first home-lab project by building a NAS from scratch. SSD and HHD prices make me want to cry though.
I'm working on a search-and-replace TUI with case-awareness and a good preview.
WhisperOS, an offgrid messaging OS base on the MeshCore protocal.
I am working on https://apxy.dev