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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Took a shot at recreating yahoo pool. Then just started adding more games to it: https://neonparlor.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
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/
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.
An alternate web client for Jira that doesn't take a 1GB of ram and slow as molasses.
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 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 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
I am working on Rockitz a site to post and comment about News. its written in .Net. https://www.asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
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
Continuing my newsletter about agentic coding:
https://github.com/duriantaco/ravage. Working on an autonomous pentester!
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.
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.
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.
I'm still working on Logos Language. Just launched v0.10.0 :)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
https://www.stonkys.com a tech focused community.
The point is to increase the signal to noise ratio, by having a community rating system.
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.
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.
A minimal, immutable Unix-based OS with built-in attestation and runtime integrity for deploying server applications in microVMs - https://www.gingercybersecurity.com/
Shipped version 2.2 of my Interactive Fiction platform Sharpee with Phrase Algebra.
Designing a new DSL (Chord) that compiles to Sharpee (Typescript).
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.
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.
Currently working on https://agentkavach.com which is a safety net for AI agents
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.
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
- a GUI (in python) for my "ancient" 3D printer to draw circuits on copper plates
- the gcode scripts are almost done !!
- a yet another static site generator (yaml, jinja2)
- a microcontroller for a hardware project (arduino)
- enhancements and reports for a desktop application (python)
PGlite - Postgres in wasm
Loads of useful things in the pipeline: multi connection support, native library, extensions and many more ideas.
I am working on a reddit lead generator that pings you when someone wants a product like yours in real time, and It does so only when the intent is high.
Was using this only for my self, but i think it might be interesting for other people as well.
A platform to automate generation, distribution and management of verifiable E-Certificates for event organizers.
A really cool iOS and Android screen recorder.
You can put your face on the screen in real time, record, stream, even annotate live, add text, draw, show touch indicators.
Pretty neat!
https://kibbutznik.org/ - A pulse-based direct democratic engine.
Hith - A Lisp written in Python
Building a Dropbox like client that work with every protocol there is: S3, SFTP, SMB, NFS, Azure Blob, IPFS, ...
Looking to experience life outside of software, but I don't know exactly what. In short, current filters are:
high total customer face to face time// high face to face time per customer// probably not in sales
as these are too abstract to map cleanly to traditional job board filters I’m scraping indeed and using deepseek to classify jobs according to this criteria, with an aim to discover really good jobs and then put a lot of effort into each of those jobs, like reaching out to hiring teams directly etc. works alright but worried coverage is an issue.
ps- can any one recommend a service or product that does this already? i should be able to set a city and then write my own filters like "this job involves dressing up like a crocodile" or "this job requires ballet dancer experience" and have each job posted in my city get assessed. maybe i get an email each day of matched and not matched jobs. i have tried to search myself but given there is so so so much slop in this space i find it very hard going. and most products do this just very poorly...
I'm working on Osaurus, AI harness for local models. It's for macOS, written in Swift.
I recently built and opensourced Inka[0], an AI journal for BOOX devices.
I continue to grow my main product BoltAI[1]
[0]: https://inka.page
[1]: https://boltai.com
I've been playing around with https://openworm.org/index.html a lot recently...getting back into artificial life "research" more broadly.
Been pushing through SideProjectors - https://www.sideprojectors.com - if your projects don't work out, feel free to submit it for sale :)
Trying to summarize my career advice reading: https://www.nordstroem.ch/posts/2026-07-12-collected-career-...
Open to feedback and missing pieces.
Self healing test selectors and authoring test journeys with natural language for Cypress using Claude Code or self hosted models. [0]
Exploring map based game ideas like arcade racing in your neighborhood: https://trippi.app/drift/