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

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I'm working on Eland (Extensible Layered Algorithm for Network Drawing), a graph layout library strongly inspired by Elk, but a complete reimplementation. The reason I need a complete reimplementation is that existing graph layout libraries tend to be black boxes that you can't really fiddle with. If you want to tweak part of the algorithm, you have to fork it or write your own. With Eland, you can replace individual…

Sounds cool. Is this going to be open source, and can we find it somewhere?

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

#732

I've been working on a private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search engine: Uruky [1]. To signup you don't provide any information (a randomly-generated account number is assigned to you), and you can run a proof-of-work captcha to get 2h for free. You can choose among many different search providers (for defaults and per query), including Uruky Site Search, powering our own index. Last month we reached…

Bit of feedback on uruky - biggest gap I experienced was lack of calculator and currency converter rather than the quality of results. Stuff like "50 GBP in USD".

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

#733

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…

good luck, nice idea, agents are fun and a bit scary sometimes!

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

#734
Building a cat themed word puzzle game with two friends.

It will have all the top word games in one place with more coming over time.

I always wanted to build games, and AI finally made it possible for us to move fast across UI, level design, coding, and even video production.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superfun.w... iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kitten-word/id6785978180

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

#735
SaaS vendors that manage PII data needs to go through the - security questionnaires, privacy assessments, vendor risk reviews, procurement due diligence, evidence requests - sent by the customer security team.

At digicred, we were managing these in google drive and jira, but with 500+ enterprise customers, and their annual vendor reviews, this practice became unmanagable.

CAOS is a dedicated workspace that helps us manage these assessments like projects, additionally, CAOS turns the questionnaires into a system of record. Questionnaires become structured, answerable work. Finished answers and your compliance documents become a searchable, citable corpus. The next questionnaire starts from what you already said, with every claim traceable to the document or prior answer it came from.

It is self-hosted. Your policies, your answers, and your customers' questionnaires stay on your infrastructure.

Recently open-sourced - https://github.com/DigiCred-OSS/caos-os

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

#737
Afrika Labs (https://afrikalabs.org) — open speech-to-text for Kikuyu (Gĩkũyũ, ~8M speakers, my mother tongue), as a start, then other African languages.

Almost none of Africa's 2,000+ languages have working ASR. I'm fine-tuning Whisper on ~217h of transcribed Kikuyu (no Kikuyu token exists, so I'm repurposing the Swahili one). A recent paper hit ~26% WER with similar data, so a usable v0 is realistic.

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

#738
Im working on an extensible and flexible agentic connectivity platform (MCP, OpenAPI/Swagger, FaaS) with niceties like built-in CodeMode, compression, SIEM integration, access token forwarding, SCIM 2.0, on-demand agentic sandboxes (e.g. LangChains "Deep Agents").

For private use not that useful tbh (although i found the OpenAPI -> MCP mapper useful), but found sales success with organizations with more complex agentic setups.

Gatana: https://www.gatana.ai/

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

#739
I've been building https://promptship.dev for a while now. Basically a cloud where the operators are the agents not the humans. The platform allows agents to attach DBs, clone envs with data (instant prod like env for testing, etc), per-env access tokens for agents, append-only logging/traces for agent actions.

It's been quite useful for our small team and we plan to open this to public beta, soon.

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