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

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

#321
Working on https://www.woltspace.com/ over the last few months. It’s my take at an agent orchestration framework

It builds around the concept of “wolts” running a lodge. A wolt takes the identity of a rodent (racoon, beaver or otter) and can inherit any supported coding harness: claude code, codex, opencode, etc. Each wolt carries a persistent identity and memory, so they always know where you left off.

woltspace is designed to help you host your apps directly from woltspace on your machine. If it works on your machine, it works anywhere. This is done through Cloudflare tunnels that you can setup with your own domains (or using ephemeral domains).

Under the hood, woltspace is powered by tmux, which means that sessions persist and can easily be resumed and accessed from anywhere. I personally drive woltspace mainly from the telegram integration, which gives me access to my wolts and CLI literally from anywhere. This means I can chat with Claude code CLI from anywhere, spawn new sessions, all running on my own infra. It’s also all in a docker container so you don’t have to worry about approving every single command.

95% of woltspace was built from within woltspace, and it’s becoming my prefered way of building.

Another feature I really like: the “inter wolt communication layer”, IWCL, allows wolts to chat with each other, making things like having fable orchestrate a gpt 5.6 something that works out the gate.

Woltspace is meant to be used by power users (you can bring your own tmux config and use the TUI CLI) or by beginners. The default split pane makes SEEING what you’re working on really intuitive. Each wolt can host its own website where they can render arbitrary html making planning new features much more intuitive.

It’s all open source, and I’m constantly adding features to it. Woltspace is mostly self documenting, all of the features are also skills the wolts have access to. I'm also improving the documentation surrounding the project as we speak.

Looking for some feedback and users to try it out. You can one line install it with

curl -fsSL https://woltspace.com/install.sh | bash

Project page: www.woltspace.com GitHub: https://github.com/jerpint/woltspace

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

#322

I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…

I don’t say this lightly, and confess I haven’t dug in very deeply yet, but this is one of the most hot shit uses of ML I think I’ve stumbled across yet.

If this does what I think it does (and I confess I’m a goddamn idiot still when it comes to anything involving ‘agentic’) this is honestly pretty damn amazing.

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

#323

My wife and I are working on a math/science/CS-inspired jewelry business. We try to create pieces that stand on their own aesthetically but have a hidden meaning. We currently have two styles: lambda calculus based pieces (we depict the lambda/Tromp diagram) where we have Y-Combinator earrings (well, strictly speaking they are one beta reduction away from Y-combinator. Aesthetic oblige) and a pendant depicting a lamb…

> Any ideas on marketing are welcome

Maybe contact CERN - they have a souvenirs shop https://visit.cern/shop

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

#324

I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…

This is wonderful. Does it support complex types of joinery?

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

#325
I resurrected an ancient UIUC x86 ASM game, built with some friends in the summer of 2002 for ECE291. Claude Code drove most of the work.

The first attempt was a full on x86asm->webasm transpiler which ran into some difficult stack issues.

The second attempt was successful via conversion from x86asm->c->emscripten->wasm [0]. It plays pretty well on mobile and just about any browser now.

Fair warning it is pretty difficult to win, unless you can figure out where the enemy weaknesses are [1].

[0] [code] https://github.com/gottebp/alan_parsons_project

[1] [play] https://particlefield.com/projects/alan-parsons/game.html

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

#327
Finally, after at least 5 years of trying, I've figured out a photo storage engine for myself, backed by a SQLite database and Cloudflare R2.

https://metallian-photos.fly.dev

It's an Actix Web/Tera/Datastar concoction, hosted on `fly.io`. It provides the backing for galleries for my music site: https://crusty-metallian.net

Now, if only I could actually write something for the blog part...

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

#328
I’m making Stacks, an open source ebook manager and server, as a lightweight alternative to Calibre.

Written in Swift, it consists of a SwiftUI browser and a Mac/Linux server and CLI. Shares are automatically discovered via Bonjour/avahi and also published as OPDS feeds.

It can import Calibre libraries and has basic support for managing books on Kindles, but I’ve only tested it with a MTP Paperwhite as that’s all I’ve got.

https://github.com/MattKevan/Stacks

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

#330
https://github.com/Nan0pk/Rush-linux A Linux variant one dynamic power and peromance tuning daemon, because Why Not--- https://github.com/Nan0pk/local-ai-relay A relay to grab Ai web chat and run it as openai compatible provider to run batch jobs https://github.com/Nan0pk/Archiv An offline Ai first institutional memory harness, ingesting office docs and outputing cited formatted deliverables.
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