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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- https://github.com/rumca-js/OfflineWebSearch - Android app with most visited domains, fast search
- https://github.com/rumca-js/awesome-database-feeds - list of RSS sources
- https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - list of domains
ive been getting claude to reverse engineer my raybans glasses case, so i can figure out a 3d printed insert to put in thats less likely to break.
in the process, figuring out some tricks for getting opus to work with 3d a bit better
two tricks ive found is to:
1. get claude to present all the orientations to you, then pick which one after 2. convert 3d problems to 2d ones - get it to draw streamlines describing the geometry, rather than trying to look at the whole thing in 3d
fable was a fair bit better at working in 3d than opus is. well, opus mostly isnt
I am currently working on a platform for authors to write nursery and kindergarten books for children. It’s pretty much in alpha stage. https://storybench.app
I am working on an open-source alternative to Quokka.js. https://github.com/apatki1996/quoll
It started out as a project to try Fable. It wrote a lot of the code and I am learning as I go. I am still questioning some of the design choices but so far it is working. I do want to improve it, so any feedback is welcome.
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. :)
Any fans of Divvy/window management software? I'm working on a replacement, its near production level, open to any thoughts/suggestions. for apple silicone.
I am working on a navigation app to handle road trips with friends.
The idea is to handle the whole thing, from meeting up at the start point, to multi-day trips, gas stops automagically planned in where you need them.
iOS only right now, Android support is planned but not a priority.
It's a bit of a passion project, as it solves a bit of a "personal" problem, I realize its niche.
I am also not a software engineer, but a DevOps engineer, so it's _entirely_ written by Claude in Swift + Swift UI, Typescript for the backend.
VERDURE is a creative sandbox where you grow and shape plants through trimming and pruning. You can also unlock a 'recipe panel' to further customize them and build a entire collection of your creations. I like to try and recreate real plant designs with it. It is a bit unusual.
Im still working on station display: https://stationdisplay.com/
I also just posted a new blog post on trash valorisation: https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/kva-winterthur/
Im working on a web-based general purpose tree editor with some unique features. https://github.com/justindmassey/tree-editor
Still working on stelae.eu (private WP editor -> static deploy: more secure, faster, cheaper). Its pretty solid already, only working on minor things. The main issue is that I think that I have a real cool product (maybe a bit boring, but in a good way) with good values (anti lock-in, privacy respecting, EU centric, fair pricing, no VC money -> sustainable business approach) but I can't reach the people that would love to use it. So thats what I'm really working on: trying to be more visible.
I'm using AI to de-compile NeXTStep applications back to Objective-C source code.
The idea is decompile something like Wordperfect or Framemaker, then port the NeXTStep code to GNUStep and have WP on GNUStep/Linux.
I’m working on a coding agent that doesn’t have access to the shell. Essentially all it could do is edit and read code, verify and run tests. But due to that limitation I’ve made it target only rust projects for the time being.
I learned to program with KidSIM and later Stagecast Creator, a spin-off of Apple's Advanced Technologies Research Group in the 90s. I'm re-creating it so a new generation can learn the fundamentals of object-oriented programming the same way I did. I've been working with Dave Canfield Smith (one of the original authors and also inventor of the icon ) and it's been a blast to bring back my earliest memories of programming. All open-source and free of course.
I've been working on my vision for a better web app development ecosystem. https://wildloop.dev/
It currently exists of 12 libraries/tool, most of which are pretty stable by now, though some are still very much in flux.
This is one of those things that turns out to be kind of a lot of work. :-)
I'm working on https://docx-editor.dev/, open-source, .docx editor library for building document apps.
Still working on my native navidrome/jellyfin client for Linux. Uses Rust and GTK.
https://github.com/Fingel/gelly
Also built out a .fits parser that uses rayon to decompress in parallel making it about 5x faster than cfitsio.
https://www.pedaldrivenprogramming.com/2026/06/8x-faster-fit...
integrated agent review surfaces with https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator
HTML/artifact canvases have a lot of potential
https://x.com/backnotprop/status/2064951065439834378?s=20
https://x.com/backnotprop/status/2065436433985474726?s=20
https://github.com/plannotator/effective-html
Shared context workspaces are important
Over the last year or so I arrived at a (sort of) MQTT semantic broker that facilitates an actor architecture. It supports federation (including transitive, so proxies "just work"(TM)), transparent outbound buffering with disk overflow and encryption with the noise protocol. Building apps on top of it is a joy. Rust.
edit: ah, yes also a broker controlled component manager that can start, stop, monitor services over the mentioned broker. This is the carpet that brings the room together.
I am working on a human-only community called Island. You can request an invite now over at https://island0.com.
Messing around with my Lambda Calculus tutorial repo. I just did a total rewrite of Nominal Inductive Types.
Easy-search - https://github.com/BlueInt32/easy-search
TUI based interface to search in your files very quickly. I created it from the need to have an equivalent of voidtool's Everything on Linux. It's a bit different though because it's keyboard based. You define zones where you search for files most of the time, and you can manage previous files history. Then there are actions you can perform on each file/folder.
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.
I'm working on a Duolingo for programming languages and framework. Unlike Duolingo it's a real space repetition system
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 iterating on my own coding agent, called `rho`. https://github.com/crustyrustacean/rho-coding-agent.git.
It’s founded in Rust and incorporates a Deno runtime for extensions.
It’s headless now, via JSON-RPC. I’ve got the basics of a trait based system which will enable different frontends. At the moment, I’ve created an extension for `pi` which allows me to use that as the frontend.
I'm build open source : Sovereign AI Infra, Deployed in Minutes. Deliver Private AI in your cloud organization. Everything in full control.
The idea is simple: Its handle of the complexity for AIOps infra like GPU VM provisioning, NVIDIA driver setup, Docker setup, model download, and launching the inference server. User can run any OSS and AI tools inside their cloud.
website + video demo: https://www.dagploy.com github : https://github.com/dagploy/dax
Putting finishing touches on an open source multi sig solution to authenticate digital artifact, aiming to increase security of the software supply chain. It's open source, completely self hostable, incl internally, support air gapped signers, fully auditable (data store is a puglic git repo). It's an alternative to sigstore, making different decision.
Website: https://www.asfaload.com/
I’m working on improving the global agents.md experience.
I’m doing composable and dynamic global profiles which are selected based on what you’re doing.
Been writing a bit on my blog: https://devz.cl
And been working on a Mario-with-guns game concept: http://devz.cl/posts/what-if-mario-had-a-gun/
Thought it’d be a short concept to get from start to finish but the things you need to implement and plan for in a video game can be near infinite and decision paralysis is a real problem for me.
I'm working on my self-host TTS cli application for turning articles into spoken audio which I can stream from my PC to mobile device when I'm out and about.
It's called Vocast: https://github.com/cnrmurphy/vocast
Thinking about adding some things like queuing RSS feed items to be converted to audio and a feature for being able to do the conversion from my phone.
Preparing the nursery.
In the odd times working on my workout app, which now has agentic chat, analysis, charting abilities, workout proposals and whatnot.
Nothing besides normal work. Sometimes is good to do a break on personal projects after 3 years nonstop
Implementing a solver/optimizer for the Minizinc challenge in Rust! It's very fun, and maybe next year I will even try and put it into the competition properly. As well, I am working on tracking down the history of Sudoku prior to Wayne Gould's popularization of it in the 2000's, and I have found some really interesting postings on Japanese forums from the 90's about the game.
• A social ebook reading app where you can create reading groups and have realtime discussions.
• A visual moodboard and notes app that uses local models to link and surface content, a bit like an AI powered Memex.
• A new UI design tool for Mac/iOS with deep support for design systems and AI agents.
• A CMS and static site generator that runs entirely in the browser. Download the site as a zip or publish directly to GitHub/Netlify.
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. :)
I'm building a plugin for Ghidra called Specter that aims to bring semi-deterministic agent workflows to Ghidra. It adds a terminal like interface to Ghidra's code browser where you can chat or run DSL queries.
The project is currently 100% vibe coded with codex\gpt-5.5, but after running some experiments, I'm working on replacing some of the vibe coded SQL engine with Apache Calcite.
I've been thinking about and working on a solution to automatically resume a Claude code session in the same terminal when my quota resumes. I hate waking up and typing "please continue"
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!
I’m working on Snapy, a system that helps secondhand retail stores digitize and broadcast their live inventory across Google, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, eBay, and more.
We’re live in 3 stores and it’s working great.
The system has two parts: a mobile app that lets employees snap photos of products to generate and publish listings, and a hardware box that sits inline between the barcode scanner and POS to track in-store sales and automatically remove the corresponding listing when something sells
I’m working on Snapy, a system that helps secondhand retail stores digitize and broadcast their live inventory across Google, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, eBay, and more.
We’re live in 3 stores and it’s working great.
The system has two parts: a mobile app that lets employees snap photos of products to generate and publish listings, and a hardware box that sits inline between the barcode scanner and POS to track in-store sales and automatically remove the corresponding listing when something sells.
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 :)
My first video game! It's a 3D First Person Puzzle game where Medusa turns you to stone, but your statue remains when you respawn - and you use this to solve the puzzles in the game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4810350/Medusas_Gaze/?bet...
Created with 0 AI assets
I'm working on (yet another) git worktree multi agent development tool that just runs in any terminal. Supports Claude Code, Pi and Codex agents and provides a CLI that allows them to work together in a given worktree. Currently messing around with having the agent drive the app itself to record and caption screencasts. Fun project that is also my daily driver for agentic development at the day job. Idea was born out of using Conductor and similar tools but preferring to work in the terminal and still lean on my preferred tools like lazygit, neovim etc... https://github.com/bakedbean/workspacex
Audion - 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 using supercollider or any daw and hardware. AI picks it up easy so Agentic coding in Audion works very well too.
hack music
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.
Still working on CopDB, started adding jurisdictions outside of Utah and were thinking about doing some mass imports from select other data sources.
I’ve been plugging away at my running coach style app, powered by the original idea of training for a trail race while living in a flat area with no easy access to natural climbing that has evolved into a fully functional plan generator: https://runcoach.fly.dev
It works well for me so far and I’m pretty happy with it!