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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)

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Post by abdullahkhalids »

schmuhblaster wrote: post #868

I’ve been working on DeepClause [0], an agentic harness, the core of which is based on Prolog. Every interaction (conversation turn, plan, execute plan, etc.) triggers a small logic program that orchestrates one or more agent loops or prompts. All these programs are completely hackable, so you can easily adjust the core logic and behavior of your agents in a reliable manner. Also, instead of using markdown specs, you…

Pretty cool stuff. Do you think it's possible to easily build a science oriented harness like Ref. [1] in DeepClause?

[1] https://github.com/1stproof/batch-2/tree/main/batch-2-submis...

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

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Post by tomchuk »

Wired up Twilio & Anthropic API on a Cloudflare Worker so I can chat with Claude via Garmin InReach during a 3-week backcountry trip to Alaska's North Slope. Location metadata is included in the system prompt for accurate location-based info (weather, hunting regs, etc). Waiting to hear back from Garmin sales for access to their professional plans, which include their inReach Portal Connect inbound/outbound APIs.

Also working on a small, portable USB-PD bench power supply: Regulated 3V3, 5V, 12V & unregulated PPS/EPR AVS pass-through. RP2040 running the show, driving a little OLED screen & some buttons for configuration. Includes a separate, galvanically isolated USB-C port in CDC-ACM for data: Dumps CSV data by default, then switches to a native protocol via handshake with a desktop/cli app. Desktop app shows live graphs for all outputs, exposes configuration, alarms, etc. CLI can turn every config knob, give live readings, or run a TOML-defined test plan. PyO3 wrapper around the protocol lib for easy scripting. Firmware is Rust/Embassy, GUI/CLI is Rust/eGUI/Ratatui. Goal is for it to be about the size of a pack of cigarettes.

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

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Post by nbbaier »

wkirby wrote: post #796

Still plugging away on Cassava, a CSV editor that sits somewhere between sublime text and Excel: https://cassava.dev/ . Our most recent releases added first-class xls/xlsx file opening and an autofill handle. The project goals are simple: * Treat CSV files like first-class spreadsheets; don't do anything that isn't supported by serializing to/from CSV files * Be as performant as your favorite text editor while retain…

This is so cool! I just bought a license.

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

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Post by DLA »

qurren wrote: post #882

AI quant trading (so that I have another income and can stop being threatened by managers that if I don't meet their unrealistic expecations that I won't have food on the table next year). So far it's going well, 30000% gains on my initial capital in 3 months very gradually over 100K trades. But I need to build some more sleeves because (a) the edge could die any time (b) I hit capacity of that edge and it can only g…

I call BS on 30,000% return in 3 months. If true, OMG!

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

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Post by pacifi30 »

I am working on making a home manager over text. You text your shopping list as you remember things to buy and when you want to order, you text fulfill. I am using Kroger api behind the scene and reasoning over items that are returned, best picks are the ones that you have already ordered before and the first time item picks are governed by the family preferences you have texted.

There is no website so no UI to maintain, it is just text. You text ‘connect’ to the number, it asks you zip code and once your store is set, all you do then is to text the items. I have been including things like texting ‘seasonal’, which picks the seasonal items and add to your shopping cart. I am having a lot of fun with it since it is hot in Seattle , peaches are in season and the home manager ‘made’ me a peach burrata salad.

Currently only works if your main store is in the QFC/Kroger family. Email in bio if you would like to try!

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

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Post by xavigroup »

wkirby wrote: post #796

Still plugging away on Cassava, a CSV editor that sits somewhere between sublime text and Excel: https://cassava.dev/ . Our most recent releases added first-class xls/xlsx file opening and an autofill handle. The project goals are simple: * Treat CSV files like first-class spreadsheets; don't do anything that isn't supported by serializing to/from CSV files * Be as performant as your favorite text editor while retain…

This past week I've been working on the spreadsheets in https://blackbear.app hoping to get the latest changes released sometime today -- how do you think they stack up? also how are you testing performance?

(note, you can test the spreadsheets by continuing through the login page at https://my.blackbear.app as an anonymous user)

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

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Post by kreig »

Hermes agent assistant for homelab server maintenance backed by the (still cheap) DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731:

- Stack enhacements

- Updates/upgrades

- Security audit

- Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and alerting

- Backups

Basically a sysadmin for my own local cloud.

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