alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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Taking a bit of a detour with self-hosting the language, now that the syntactic surface, standard library, and initial dependency strategy are on a decent footing.
With any luck, by the end of the week, I'll start prepping for a 0.0.1 release.
Building Package Manager Guard (PMG) - https://github.com/safedep/pmg
With all the supply chain attacks on OSS ecosystems targeting developers, PMG is a practical protection using a combination of threat intel, policy and sandbox.
It’s a package firewall on the terminal really. It has been surprisingly effective against most of the recent attacks.
A simple web app that generates scenarios for practicing spoken languages. Read a news article and then chat about it with AI. https://fluenly.ai/
I recently decided to build and run my own training free inference engine... and it worked.
It's called TinyToT: https://github.com/guilt/TinyToT
You basically get a LLM without any training/RL here.
I'm working on a variation of MTP that recovers PP TPS (back to the same as with MTP disabled), keeping most of MTP's benefits to TG TPS.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700782
Will propose a patch back to llama.cpp or provide it as a fork.
A News Platform aggregator collecting sources of information across the internet (socials, newswires, etc.) and trying to push context to humans in a more digestible form. We are also experimenting with defining lineage of information using AI to help people try to piece the puzzle together as information flows in.
I’ve been working on Hype Doc. I built it for myself and hope others find it useful. I decided to build the mobile apps too and that process is way more work than I expected. It’s been fun though to dive into Rails 8 in the process.
It’s an app to track wins and celebrate yourself
OrcaBot was my Jan+Feb attempt to defeat the lethal trifecta whilst offering all the bells and whistles of a claw like sandbox: https://orcabot.com/blog#breaking-the-lethal-trifecta
This month I've been working on the free desktop version which is available as of today but probably carries a few too many bugs to not be worth promoting just yet.
An iOS app to help toddlers get bored of smart phones more quickly: https://toddlerphotolock.com/
Been building a open-source technical interview platform. Trying to keep the existing ideas of async coding assessments + live programming interviews, but want to add features for the new interview formats I see of take-home projects + AI coding agent interviews
Sharable, real-time synced maps, Google Docs for maps basically.
I think the coolest part is the import feature where you can paste a link to a video or article and it pulls out places and enriches them with images and a description. You can also write your own notes, vote on places to go with friends, and apply colors. Right now I am working on user acquisition and experimenting with different marketing approaches.
I am working on Rockitz a site to post and comment about News. its written in .Net. https://www.asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
An alternate web client for Jira that doesn't take a 1GB of ram and slow as molasses.
https://github.com/duriantaco/ravage. Working on an autonomous pentester!
This is an open source tool to run background coding agents + dev environment in isolated VMs. So far it has allowed me to migrate a majority of long running coding sessions to my homelab to run remotely. I can also run multiple in parallel without worrying about race conditions or my host machine breaking.
I am working on https://chiptune.app.
Most recently, adding SID support, and adding timing information to the emulated formats that don’t have any tagged song duration (e.g., converting NSF to NSFE). This means playing the songs one by one and watching for repeated sequences of writes to the sound chip registers.
I'm still working on Logos Language. Just launched v0.10.0 :)
I'm working on so101-nexus, an open-source sim-to-real stack for the SO-100/SO-101 robot arms where you can record teleop demos, behavior-clone a policy, then fine-tune with RL. The goal is to be very compatible with Gymnasium, MuJoCo, and LeRobot.
I'm working on leveraging NLP and LLM techniques to create a geometry over the discrete space of Ethereum transaction execution structure. (sorry... it's a bit of a mouthful)
The goal is to find on-chain structural anomalies, as well as seeing if clustering by behavior has emergent semantic properties
We just launched https://www.dplyd.io which will do AI in a box. Small deployments of local models for law firms, healthcare, defense, etc…
There are many like it. This one is ours.
This month I have mainly been building my fork of tiny-dfr so that my 2019 mbp touchbar isn’t useless when on hyprland/cosmic
https://github.com/keloran/tiny-dfr
Unfortunately due to the way GitHub defaults to creating prs in the parent fork, I have accidentally created a few invalid prs in asahi before I was ready, and now am banned from creating a good upstream one
Still working on True Trials - motorcycle trials simulator with no guard rails and two-axis leaning control. You can play the demo in your browser:
https://truetrials.substepgames.com
Previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749027
https://www.stonkys.com a tech focused community.
The point is to increase the signal to noise ratio, by having a community rating system.
Scrolless, a Safari extension that keeps all the human parts of social media (search, DMs, stories, posts from friends) while removing all the algorithmic garbage designed to suck up your attention.
Continuing my newsletter about agentic coding:
A graphviz dot substitute in pure rust:
https://azriel.im/disposition/
Things I missed in original graphviz dot:
1. predictable / stable layout
2. dark and light mode css (tailwind)
3. interactive through pure css
4. markdown descriptions
Took ages understanding how to route edges to not overlap labels.
Photos Wallpaper - recreates the functionality from older Mac OS versions to rotate photos from your library as wallpaper, changing on a schedule.
Written by Codex with me driving product direction, reviewing, testing, occasionally scolding, and handling the release process.
Accepted onto the Mac App Store last week.
A daemon-focused CLI driven music player for GNU/Linux. I recently got it working with playerctl by exposing it to dbus using zbus, great fun. https://git.2137697.xyz/salmon/rsplayer
Exploring highly interactive instrument (piano) practice to see if AI can help students practice better. Full duplex voice agent alongside your practice session. Also exploring live AI jamming partner to practice playing with others.
I've been building WhyNotLog to answer tricky questions using statistics. Example questions include "what gives my dog allergies?" or "what affects my sleep?".
Available at https://whynotlog.com and promo code HACKERNEWS gives access to the pro plan for six months.
I am building Bloomberry (https://bloomberry.com), an alternative to tools like BuiltWith/Wappalyzer to provide sales signals when companies subscribe or churn from over 1600 B2B tech products. Think backend/backoffice tools like Hubspot CRM, or Netsuite, or Microsoft 365, rather than frontend technologies like Wordpress or React.
Shipped version 2.2 of my Interactive Fiction platform Sharpee with Phrase Algebra.
Designing a new DSL (Chord) that compiles to Sharpee (Typescript).
A minimal, immutable Unix-based OS with built-in attestation and runtime integrity for deploying server applications in microVMs - https://www.gingercybersecurity.com/
I follow a bunch of gaming rss feeds just to keep up with what’s new in the industry. Figured I’d take those and turn them into a news aggregator to put them all into one place. Threw in some game deals/affiliate to pay the web hosting bills (hasn’t paid for anything yet, lol).
I'm using AI to build a project to teach me SQL. I use claude code to build the lessons, and then I complete them myself. I've done this for a few topics already, and I think it's one of the most amazing things you can do with LLMs.
This month I worked on my own AI agent written in POSIX shell. It's been surprisingly useful for debugging command line problems on an old laptop running linux, like fixing an apt problem.
PGlite - Postgres in wasm
Loads of useful things in the pipeline: multi connection support, native library, extensions and many more ideas.
tirreno security framework
Currently working on https://agentkavach.com which is a safety net for AI agents
I struggle with terminology so I made a little Gnome utility for easier LLM-based terminology lookups from a highlighted word/term + contextual screenshot. So far it's working pretty well, kinda like a better version of the Mac OS or Kindle ones.
https://kibbutznik.org/ - A pulse-based direct democratic engine.
working on my own AI harness https://github.com/syrull/pluto tldr I dont trust anything nowadays, I wanted to know what requests I am doing to where and basically implement features that I use daily without the clutter of the other harnesses, still very raw but I am using it exclusively. Not a product or anything just something for myself.
I _just_ published https://klar.im/ a local-first AI spam filter for Apple Mail on mac.
It is build using a model that can classify messages (ham/spam/marketing), packaged for Apple Mail but could be used in other places.
Building a typing application that helps you quickly learn and improve your typing.
We believe everyone can type at 80wpm or more. It just takes a good tool and a couple months of consistent practice
apt-cacher-ultra: To help reduce the impact of future DDoSes of Ubuntu. Just released 1.0 yesterday after working on it a couple months.
As that DDoS was going on I realized that some of our dev and staging processes were impacted by it, and that apt-cacher-ng was doing nothing to help us.
apt-cacher-ultra snapshots the repo meta-data after verifying it, and only promotes it if the metadata all checks out. Additionally, it can optionally keep a list of "hot" packages, and can include those in the snapshot calculation.
Additionally, apt-cacher-ng would regularly choke and require some handholding. I'm hoping -ultra resolves that as well.
Hith - A Lisp written in Python
A platform to automate generation, distribution and management of verifiable E-Certificates for event organizers.
I created a setapp alternative at https://getapps.cafe. 40 local-first apps and counting and yes I use claude code to help building all these apps (and I do read the code). It is so much easier now to start and create small, self contained apps and I do the future is local/privacy by default apps