alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Comments
Still finding a job, but it’s getting harder to do anything.
Other than that, working on 2 projects:
1. KitchenCue: Smart cooking assistant. Always had the problem of what to cook. AI suggests options based on your preferences, locality, and pantry, what you can make.
2. Sci-fi editor: Even though sci-fi tells the most futuristic stories, the tools are just meh? I am trying to make something so you don’t have to worry about timeline and physics inconsistencies. It will help you with science and histories.
I'm working on a Chrome extension for X that adds language learning features: https://uselangbot.com. I think it's a bit too niche for it to become a viable business, but let's see... usage is growing the more I talk about it.
Fun fact: I coded it by hand (because I enjoy doing that), which I think in 2026, puts me into the psychopath group according to most.
A guidebook to the area I live in.
The nichest of niche social network clients. It's for people in one particular country, who watch one particular TV program, on one particular day of the week.
Now that the cost of writing software is zero, I love that my focus have moved from vain attempts to generate passive income to just building whatever random shit I feel like. Wish I'd made that choice earlier in life, but no worries!
huntbot: AI offensive security harness for Security Research pentesting bugbounty
indiesecurity.com
Built an app that helps you detect if a video (tt/reels) is lying about those "do this and you'll make 10k a month"!
still very early and im trying to keep it very affordable, since the whole point is I dont want people wasting their money on hustles that were never legit
reverse engineering the red one mx cinema camera.
Thinking a lot about ethnobotany in relation to cannabis and globalization as a research associate working on the Legacy Cannabis Genetics: People and their Plants research project.[0]
Circadian lighting.
High intensity focused ultrasonic drug delivery and thermoacoustic spectroscopic signal processing and analysis.
Guitar.
kinoto.io/orrery
We're releasing this next week.
llm testing for stability and reliability.
Guitar plugin
I’m working on Descartes[^0]. First to help diagnose what’s wrong with a machine.
I’ve started implementing actual background monitoring of the system, and next will be letting an agent build its own layers of tailor-made deterministic rules and statistical models, to "learn" what the system’s normal behaviour is and only "wake up" the agent when something unusual is going on. Either to update its rules and models, or alert the user.
Like the ship’s AI at the beginning of Absolution Gap. Next will be enabling it to serve as the interface for the system. An ops "point of contact" for both the user and their agents for the machine / fleet of machines it’s in charge of.
———
I’m also working on third thoughts[^1], a tool that analyses local agents logs to find patterns and behaviours, identify what works, what doesn’t, how they evolve over time, using deterministic and statistical methodologies and techniques from multiple domains (including, to my surprise, genetics and psychology / sociology), with an agent layer that interprets the results.
I’d like to add a "federative" layer where people can contribute the results, patterns, and findings, without leaking their logs or personal / private data, so that we can all better learn how to identify failure modes, predict them, and see what works and what doesn’t.
———
I’m also having Claude & Codex revive Jasonette[^2], which died off and was turned into some weird paid unrelated thing by those who picked it up. I’d been meaning to but never took the time. But now with agents…
All rebuilt in Swift / SwiftUI on the iOS side, and Kotlin on the Android side. Some features are still missing, but it works quite well! [^3].
———
Oh, and Boucle[^4] is doing its thing on its own. No idea how it got to 100 GitHub star. My "autonomous dog-fooding expensive pet" is apparently more "internet successful" than I’ve ever been.
And quite a few other side projects.
———
[0]: https://github.com/lightless-labs/descartes
[1]: https://github.com/lightless-labs/third-thoughts
[2]: https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS
Nothing because I'm terrible at coming up with useful ideas for something that hasn't been done a million times over.
C++/python/networking/systems/web developer for 30 years with plenty of free time
Cooking another crypto bot on Solana, as with constantly changing market conditions, my previous bot basically stopped earning anything.
Agents
book on performance; latency instrumentation; DCC TTRPG adventure module; OCPP software; latency/stability issues & upgrades for legacy backend codebase
ccb
[flagged]
[flagged]
[dead]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[dead]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[dead]
[flagged]
[dead]
[flagged]
[flagged]
[flagged]
taking sabbatical from work (after getting laid off) went to visit family in moldova. my nieces tell me there is no app to learn romanian online - this cant be true.
I do a bit of research and turns out this is mostly true, mostly these websites built for english speaking people, meaning you learn romanian - but starting from english.
at the same time I need to dig in into all the rails 8 goodies. also, I've been hearing about this cloudflare thing, and not knowing what's that about. also, heroku is shit now, so Im curious to try some new server, hetzner u say? - wonder what's that like.
kamal is a thing now, ok.
but coding is ... time and energy intensive, what is this vibecoding ppl talking about?
anyhow May 20th I sit down to "vibecode" an app - see what happens. one thing led to another and here we are
https://vorbim.org/
found some romanian words ranked by frequency. found free open db of romanian words on dexonline. found google TTS to transform text to sound. found that cloudflare has storage sooooo much cheaper than aws s3 (only one I used for decade) found that cloudflare has some neat useful features. found that server at hetzner is pretty cheap and with ai easy to setup. found that fable/opus are great at generating content (with some hand holding) found that AI now is stupid good at building / designing websites.
it was impossible for me to build something like this without second monitor and tweaking css for days/weeks. now? I just tell it make it pretty. god damn. inspiring and disheartening at the same time.