Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

251–260 of 1001 posts

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#251

Post by Evidlo »

I've rapidly been clearing some of the smaller items off of my ideas list while procrastinating on my PhD:

- nichromecast - TUI/CLI Chromecast sender with for local files and YouTube URLs - https://github.com/evidlo/nichromecast

- syncthingtui - TUI for administering Syncthing on headless machines - https://github.com/Evidlo/syncthingtui

- Need for Madness Web - WebGL port of an old Java racing/derby game - https://radicalarchive.github.io/nfm/

- MdInvetory - Markdown-based personal inventory editor - https://github.com/evidlo/mdinventory

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#252

Post by africajam »

I put my flat in the UK on the market recently and it has given me a lot of insights into how broken the real estate market is! One thing I found particularly annoying is how dominant rightmove is and how much of the traffic for house hunting they control.

As a small way of standing up to them I created https://rigove.co.uk/ (rightmove without htm - the hidden toll machine ;)

If you change rightmove to rigove while browsing a property for sale you get a page which shows where else that property is listed.

It is only a few days old so it is currently more miss than hit but I plan to reach out to estate agents to increase coverage as quick as I can.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#253

Post by emn4tor »

I'm currently working on an open-source End-to-End Encrypted P2P Chat-Platform similar to matrix but with the thinnest backend possible, the backend is a a simple directory server + relay, nothing more you can find more about it in the readme on GitHub :) https://github.com/Emn4tor/Seal

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#254

Post by ra0x3 »

I've always ran into an issue running arbitrary processes - whether it be for serious production work, or just toy scripts. So many choices with so many dependencies, featuring so many foot-guns. So I decided to take a stab at solving the problem. Would love any feedback or contributors :)

SystemG - An agent-friendly general process composer.

- https://sysg.dev/

- https://github.com/ra0x3/systemg

- https://docs.rs/systemg/latest/systemg/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#255

Post by Razengan »

About 100 games and still yet to finish 1..

..but I get to take the common stuff from each and put it into an open-source Godot framework so as to not feel totally useless :')

https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/comedot

and all of this is making me want for a better programming language designed from the ground up for games, with no need to care about hardware, so I've been brainstorming and rubber-duckying about that as well.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#258

Post by emn4tor »

sgt wrote: post #229

A boat game for 5+ age group! I was never much of a game developer, but recently my 5 year old son wanted to play a game so we decided to build one together. It's a boat game, you basically steer a boat in an isometric 2d world, transporting passengers, cargo etc between ports. As we designed it, the ideas just kept on coming. He made or directed a lot of the art inside of the game (even the audio), and we included f…

Oh that sounds too extremely cool, have a 5yo brother, will definitely show this to him, wish you all the best on your journey :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#260

Post by muazzam »

I've been working on a Persian classical poetry archive with LLM-generated translation. As a poetry enthusiast but a non-speaker of Persian, I wanted to read Rumi, Hafiz, and Bedil, but found myself jumping between ChatGPT and Google Translate. I sourced my data from Ganjoor, which was luckily available via their public API. Then I quickly put together a website with bring-your-own-key translation feature.

For now, there's no backend and it's hosted on GitHub Pages; it's a static website reading chunks from an sqlite-based DB file. I intend to change it in the future by running an LLM (preferably a frontier Gemini model, as works great for Persian) over the whole data set so you won't need a key to read the translated poetry. However, I don't have the budget of $1000-$2000 to spend on the tokens currently.

Website: https://0x5ce.github.io/farsidaan

Code: https://github.com/0x5CE/farsidaan

P.S. Contributions welcome.

Post reply on HN