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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WhisperOS, an offgrid messaging OS base on the MeshCore protocal.
Embarking on my first home-lab project by building a NAS from scratch. SSD and HHD prices make me want to cry though.
5T OTA to use as a gm/VCA cell primitive for my Tiny Tapeout FPAA.
Specs/area are not the focus currently. I just want to build a few useful blocks with it (e.g. analog summer, filter, ...).
I’m working on my developer portfolio that deeply incorporates the forgejo API, which is where I host my code. It basically gives a personalized dashboard for my personal projects.
I just started Compiling with Continuations by Andrew W. Appel.
I hope that by the end of the book I don't find out that CPS compiled code produces bad stack traces.
Worked on awardlocker.com for a while, an award flight search engine. I ended up buying a bunch of business flights with points so my interested died down a bit, but quite useful!
I'm working on painbase.space - an AI tool that helps founders validate their startup ideas based on Reddit users' complaints
https://codeberg.org/olpad/openmic
An open source audio interface along the lines of a Scarlett 2i2.
I am continuing work on my webgl engine, now making a web app with backend for it too, so that I can host the games and toy projects I make with it
I'm working on AI Fact Checked News. https://uncensoredblog.com/
I'm working on inference.club, a distributed inference network for consumer hardware. Sign up with GitHub, get an API key, run an agent on your home network that registers your local inference resources with inference.club, set permissions for who can use your services, try out models in the playground and use the API. So far it supports the following models:
- LLMs (any OpenAI compatible API, vLLM, LM Studio, etc.) - image gen + image edit (flux klein) - text to speech (magpie, dia with voice cloning) - speech to text (OpenAI audio transcriptions + riva compatible) - image to textured 3d model (trellis2) - image+text to video (ltx2.3-gguf) - text to music (acestep)
currently it is just me and Claude vibing. While using Fable 5 moved all of my local inference services to k3s across 3 RTX 4090 PCs and my DGX Spark, now I can just tell Claude/Hermes/etc. to start and stop services.
inference.club is built with Tailscale's tsnet library. It is sort of like an OpenRouter built for different types of local AI models. inference.club also lets you showcase and share generated content. For example here is 90 seconds disco funk track generated by acestep: https://inference.club/s/Vxm6ozW24oBs_JGbPcq7tA
I was inspired by AI Horde, and wanted to see if I could build something that could support all of the model modalities that I use for generating short-form AI slop content on local hardware. This is also similar to Hugging Face Spaces, but running on consumer hardware with a common API. I've been watching the quality of local AI inference making massive improvements in quality and performance, and I want to make it easier for people to try "local AI" even if they don't have a GPU.
CSSON - CSS as a data format https://github.com/crowdwave/csson
https://whatgrowswell.com - find out what edible plants grow in your area and when best to plant them.
https://esploro.app - trying to build a modern, sleek, lightweight and open source macOS database client
safe/efficient junctions on the road network where I live:
Working on a Testing Platform for the Post AI world
Working on a multi-agent chat, about Yoga, Ayurveda and wider scriptures: https://livingshastra.org
if you're organizing fund-raisers for charity, your local sports club, or youth organization, my personal pet project is still available to help you organize it. Continuing to add small features to https://eventalix.org
if you're organizing fund-raisers for charity, your local sports club, or youth organization, my personal pet project is still available to help you organize it. Continuing to add small features to https://eventalix.org
My little project for today is sort of hardware hacking of Chinese Aubess WiFi switch with power monitor so I can reflash it without desoldering anything. :)
https://trax.legacyfactory.dev/
> Guild manager for my MMORPG guilds with Discord integration
Trying to adept an O. Henry short story into an AI animation short. If I'm happy with the results, will be sure to publish a detailed breakdown of the work.
https://proxybase.xyz - No Kyc residential proxies, Xmr accepted.
Working on tests for a rewrite of a web app I use in my business. I rewrote to use my own JavaScript framework and things are much faster now.
Building a universal humanoid controller app for our Booster K1 robot. The native app, apparently, leaves much to be desired.
still working on https://hcker.news, which has an absurd number of features that improve your QoL when reading hn.
i've massively improved a bunch of things like the AI filter, which now gives you the option of filtering out github repos with AI authorship.
Also improved comments, which I'm serving through my own backend which has made loading of comments super fast, and it's going to be the foundation for some really great other features coming soon.
Soon: HN feature parity via browser extension and sync'd accounts.
I am building agentic id and global, open agent-to-agent signed communication at https://aweb.ai
Fully F# based online voice chat agent
Making it possible to share a deck in my flashcard app https://texeditor.com
building a free and open-source invoice generator https://easyinvoicepdf.com https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf
- No sign-up required & no ads
- Live PDF preview & instant download
- Flexible tax support (VAT, Sales Tax, etc.)
- Fully customizable invoice templates
- 120+ currencies & multi-language support
- 100% In-Browser
teale.com - distributed ai inference using networked devices essentially folding@home but sharing underutilized ram (when you're asleep, someone else in the world is awake)
would really appreciate testers but also any companies thinking about distributed inference powered by their own company devices on a private network. my own company has 200+ 16gb ram machines that we're using for inference.
duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514461
App to upload images to a PDF file. https://imagina.xplaya.com
I am building runtime security for AI agents; for real. https://minimako.com
I am rebuilding an open source email client i started hacking on 15 years ago. The rise of AI coding agents suddenly made this feasible again...
I'm working on a thing I'm calling TOASST, or the Tiny Open Android Smartphone-based Smart Telescope. The basic idea is to use a smartphone (often the best camera in your house) to do electronically assisted astronomy/astrophotography a la Seestar. I've been working on the solidworks design for a mount to hold a phone for about 3 weeks and started the Arduino firmware this week. Eventually I'll write a small android app to control the mount and coordinate astrophotography sessions, hosted via wifi hotspot so you can see the results coming in on another device.
This project started when my partner told me I couldn't buy a Seestar, so I decided "fuck it, I'll build my own!" It's still early days but I think there's something cool here. I'm designing the whole thing to be easy and cheap to print and build. I hope someday this will be the kind of project that a sufficiently motivated teenager will be able to build with minimal experience and an old smartphone; maybe it's healing my inner child, lol.
Working on 2 things at the moment, both fully open source:
- navigation without GPS and Internet
- GIS with tokenized raster layers so that LLMs could easily talk to the maps
A json schemaless stream querying engine that would run several sql queries over the same kafka consumer (not a consumer for each query).
trying to figure out what is salvageable in my project https://pura.xyz
the routing market is bloody as hell. agents aren’t using their own bank accounts (yet).
crypto was never the point, but the only way around KYC.
and I overbuilt way beyond the status quo.
probably sounds really familiar these days at the speed of AI-enabled development.
An all time classic, a headshot generator: https://instant.photos
Two things:
CRM with agent baked in that can properly do stuff. No idea why attio/twenty are soooo bad at this. It's a table. getcrme.com / https://github.com/ChristianSch/crme
and gargoyle, an activitypub server with a (theoretically mastodon compatible UI) https://github.com/myfedi/gargoyle. Was annoyed at the homogenous fediverse dev teams out there that don't want their precious service federate with others. I want more federation (tested it with bookwyrms and lemmy for now. Mastodon/GTS also working ofc) and a pretty UI and not waste time with weird identity politics. You do you. I want an open fediverse, not a filter bubble. And GTS was too hard to hack on.
I'm working on trying to get citizens' voices into spaces of power (councils, parliaments...). So far I've been experimenting with scrapping public records and building a solo (and multiplayer) experience for replaying plenary sessions.
Last few years of Congress: https://andratwiro.github.io/riot/?city=congress&solo=1
Reichtag during Hitler's takeover: https://andratwiro.github.io/riot/?city=weimar&solo=1
i am still working on easyanalytica tool to auto generate dashboards without ai . I recently added comparison feature and figuring that out was fun. There are lot of interesting ideas on execution side of it but for end user its a simple product, just give data and see the dashboard.
Just playing Doom
still wip but QuiltOps which is basically just Quilt+Tooling so you can keep your package mods up to date with upstream. A new package drops (oh no another 0day in htop) and you want to apply your htop-but-with-xcowsay.patch and it will auto rebuild against your patchset or notify you on failure... Thats the idea anyway.
Jacobin, a JVM entirely written in go https://www.jacobin.org
Building the most effective typing application.
I am building a e-com tracker that help users to Track competitor pricing, product launches, promotions, and stock changes automatically. Get alerts the moment the market moves.