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

#961
Working on this [0]

Trying to make the world’s smallest maze solving neural network. Why? Because it’s fun. Why aren’t you?

Current champion model is 14 bytes - it solves 96.5% of unseen mazes upto 21x21.

Try it yourself on the website. Also a work in progress write up at [1]

[0] - https://minimio.ai

[1] - https://github.com/con-dog/tiny-neural-network

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

#962
Building three different applications with different purpose:

compears.shop : to help with cheapest grocery shopping across Europe

https://runewardd.github.io/runeward/ : what if you know every action your agent is performing and how about you have a fleet of agent and you can map out how each of them works with boundaries to work with

https://github.com/adefemi171/ai-rganize: Organize files/folders locally using local models or frontier models

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

#963
Right now I'm playing around with some of the concepts mentioned by Michael Levin in his Ingressing Minds paper preprint. I'm implementing their agentic bubble sort for fun. I'm also working on finishing my novella and preparing to start studying full-time in a couple of weeks. Scary but exciting!

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

#964
I've been working on Jant [0], an open-source blogging platform for a single author with a modern publishing UI, in the spirit of Tumblr. It deploys to Cloudflare Workers, and natively supports Note, Link, and Quote formats, plus Thread-style replies. It also syncs with GitHub — the synced repo is a Hugo site that builds on its own.

This month has mostly been about adding multilingual support to Jant. It's for bilingual authors — the common case being someone writing for both Chinese and English readers — so they can publish to each language's audience separately within Jant.

I'm also designing a feature called Repost: when you see a post you like on another blog, you can repost it to your own Jant blog along with the original URL.

Code's on GitHub [1], and there's a demo [2] to try it out.

[0] https://jant.me [1] https://github.com/jant-me/jant [2] https://demo.jant.me

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

#966
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…

What approach did you take with AI to make it discover an edge? Give the AI autonomy to search for edges itself and build e.g. a backtest it can use to confirm, or narrow it done with research (possibly AI) and then investigate specific approaches with AI? Or in other words, how autonomous was the AI in finding that edge?

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

#967
I'm working on One Simulator (https://onesimulator.slidingcodes.com), a One Piece TCG simulator that runs entirely in the browser: online matchmaking, spectating, ranked, deck builder, replays (and alt cards you can flex on your opponent).

Playing this game online used to mean installing something first: a client on your PC, an app sideloaded onto your iPhone, or a tabletop sandbox where you apply the rules yourself. And your opponent had to do the same before you could play. Now you open a link and you're in a match, on any device.

The hard part turned out to be the rulings, not the netcode. I play this game in real life and I still had to look half of these interactions up, because what a card says and what a card does are two different documents. New sets land almost every month, and every one of them is a pile of new special cases to implement and test by hand. Which is why I now spend a suspicious amount of time wondering whether I should just train an agent to do it instead of me.

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