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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Making it possible to share a deck in my flashcard app https://texeditor.com
Mostly offboarding stuff from “the cloud” due to geopolitical instability and sovereignty issues.
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
Working on the theory to unify all existing fragmented ideas on human psychology.
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)
Snapshot-fork microVM sandboxes for AI agents on Kubernetes.
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 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.
A share collab rich text editor: https://collabedit.duckdns.org/ and trying get back to open source contrbutions.
I’m working on a package that exposes Apple’s local model as a provider in Opencode and Raycast: https://github.com/localcodeai/localcode
Running a Kickstarter for an ergonomic keyboard
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/taikohub/taiko-01-keybo...
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).
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 have made elderflower syrup, and I'm now trying it in different cocktails/mocktails.
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.
Working on continuously improving my docker image for running OpenCode in an isolated and security-focused environment.
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.
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 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.
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!
Im working on a batteries included and (aiming to be) production deployment ready go sdk for all things MCP:
A json schemaless stream querying engine that would run several sql queries over the same kafka consumer (not a consumer for each query).
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
safe/efficient junctions on the road network where I live:
Working on a social Trading network to automaticlly capture, document and share how you trade https://docutive.com/
Trying to understand how to run many coding agents 24x7 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520757
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.
Fully F# based online voice chat agent
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.
An all time classic, a headshot generator: https://instant.photos
I'm working on a search-and-replace TUI with case-awareness and a good preview.
https://esploro.app - trying to build a modern, sleek, lightweight and open source macOS database client
https://whatgrowswell.com - find out what edible plants grow in your area and when best to plant them.
A new CLI for https://github.com/dirac-run/dirac and a paper that may or may not ever publish
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
https://codeberg.org/olpad/openmic
An open source audio interface along the lines of a Scarlett 2i2.
A few tools to de-enshittify/enhance specific websites.
I don't have to tell the Hacker News crowd how junked up the web has become.
* Bookmarklet to cleanly extract lyrics from Genius.com. * Firefox add-on to cleanly display lead sheets and guitar tabs on UltimateGuitar.com * Firefox add-on to show Distance From City on TrustedHousesitters.com. https://versastudio.com/projects
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 building agentic id and global, open agent-to-agent signed communication at https://aweb.ai
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...
duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514461
Open-source Shopify for every vertical. Then leveraging that to build an interoperable, decentralized marketplace
I am building runtime security for AI agents; for real. https://minimako.com
I have two projects that I'm hoping to release in the months ahead. These are both pretty pointless but fun projects.
One is a TRS-80 Model I emulator in JavaScript called Trash80. About 10 months ago I started this project just for fun while experimenting with what now seems to be called agentic loops. I got things working pretty well with the Z80 passing the ZEXALL suite and a lot of real TRS-80 software running fine. It sat for months untouched before I decided it is worth releasing and recently started it up again.
I didn't want to release it without a ROM, so I rigged up some agents to build a clean-room style L2 ROM w/ a fairly complete BASIC and even readline-style control commands, history, and a proper cursor. That went very well, but the agents cheated on floating point and implemented some weird Q5.2 like-thing. I told them to fix it, but I guess I didn't give clear enough instructions because they replaced it with a BCD hybrid monstrosity instead of proper floating point. The proper floating point is now underway, but I'm mostly using excess Codex credits before they expire, so it's only moving forward when I have credits I don't need.
I also built a silly ASCII fractal browser in Z80 assembly so that I can ship with a virtual disk that has software on it. The emulator works in the browser and the terminal. Unicode sextant block graphics map very well to TRS-80 Model I semigraphiccs/squots, so it really does run everything very well in the terminal, even games. I also added a line-mode for line-based applications, so you can use a readline-like interface and feel like it's native terminal app as well, though that has some issues I need to fix. And of course, you can shebang TRS-80 BASIC files and run them through the emulator too.
Another project was a demo of chromesthesia, a form of synesthesia where sounds trigger experiences of color. I thought it was done and ready to release, but then I had a new idea. The visualization while cool, was kind of boring. I decided to replace it with an attempt at a semi-physically accurate cymatics simulation with artificial coloring based on chromesthesia. Cymatics is the practice of making sounds visible by vibrating a surface, such as a plate with sand on it. As the sound changes, symmetrically interesting patterns form and evolve. I've got something working now with wave generation and microphone input, but sometimes it gets a bit stuck and stops evolving as it should, so I have to find time to figure that out.
Currently all unreleased, but when they do release it will be at www.leshylabs.com. I sometimes post updates on X, but not too often. (https://x.com/LeshyLabs)
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
in spare time working on https://coderscreen.com/, an open source technical interview platform
I am looking to build a platform that allows for real interview workflows like takehomes, agent coding sessions, as well as the standard leetcode-style questions
I’m still working on filepond v5. A JavaScript file upload library that supports client side image manipulation, chunked uploading, various file sources, and is procedurally animated.
https://v5.filepond.com