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

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If you are in a calorie surplus, your weight goes up. If you are in a calorie deficit, your weight goes down. MacroCodex uses that relationship to estimate your true maintenance calories over time: https://macrocodex.app/ This can be used to gain or lose weight. You simply need to eat above your maintenance calorie line to gain weight and below it to lose weight. No ads, no subscriptions, no payments, 16k users alrea…

Interesting. How long does it usually take before the maintenance estimate becomes accurate?

Usually in 16-21 days

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

#12

My project are trying to respond to this question: "Where is your GitHub network building from?"? I called it GitHub Audience Atlas. It visualizes a GitHub user's network and shows them on a map by categories: followers, following, and ghosts (those who don't follow you back). https://github.com/ThierryRakotomanana/Github-Audience-Atlas

How much of GitHub's location field is actually usable? I'd imagine a lot of people put things like 'The Internet' or emojis.

Yeah, you're completely right. A lot of them don't put their location on their profile, and their stats really vary. But I've noticed many US users do add their location.Talking about that, I will add stats on what percentage are located

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

#13

I have been working on Babel Nexus https://babelnexus.com It is a proof of concept for a site that uses hexagonal galleries. I wanted to show that it was possible to use the layout in the story from The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges to put other things in it like collections of books and media. It is partially about hexagonal architecture inside websites.

Really like the idea of browsing knowledge instead of searching it. Have you noticed people discovering books they wouldn't have found through a traditional search?

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

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How much of GitHub's location field is actually usable? I'd imagine a lot of people put things like 'The Internet' or emojis.

Yeah, you're completely right. A lot of them don't put their location on their profile, and their stats really vary. But I've noticed many US users do add their location.Talking about that, I will add stats on what percentage are located

That'd actually be a useful stat. It'd also be interesting to see the percentage of profiles with ambiguous locations that couldn't be mapped.

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Interesting. How long does it usually take before the maintenance estimate becomes accurate?

Usually in 16-21 days

Does it converge faster if someone logs their weight daily instead of weekly?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, you're completely right. A lot of them don't put their location on their profile, and their stats really vary. But I've noticed many US users do add their location.Talking about that, I will add stats on what percentage are located

That'd actually be a useful stat. It'd also be interesting to see the percentage of profiles with ambiguous locations that couldn't be mapped.

Waouh! really appreciate this feedback

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

#17

Seriously? There is a monthly thread on this that was just posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884984 Re-posting the same question just creates noise.

I also thought that, but actually if you take a look. He take time to share real feedback. I think, that deserves to be shown, as many many projects didn't received any feedback and getting just one makes you feel better and motivate

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

#18

Seriously? There is a monthly thread on this that was just posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884984 Re-posting the same question just creates noise.

I also thought that, but actually if you take a look. He take time to share real feedback. I think, that deserves to be shown, as many many projects didn't received any feedback and getting just one makes you feel better and motivate

Great, he can provide that feedback on the monthly thread, too. Make that thread better, don't noise up the whole site.

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

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I have been working on Babel Nexus https://babelnexus.com It is a proof of concept for a site that uses hexagonal galleries. I wanted to show that it was possible to use the layout in the story from The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges to put other things in it like collections of books and media. It is partially about hexagonal architecture inside websites.

Really like the idea of browsing knowledge instead of searching it. Have you noticed people discovering books they wouldn't have found through a traditional search?

Not so much for individual searches, but for types of information. I have had people ask for hexagons covering ceramics, knitting, art, and other hexagons. A lot of the public domain sites are very generic. They are designed to promote popular subjects. Most of the tracking is at the hexagon level. Each hexagon has its own URL. I can add unique categories like Wisdom Literature, Visual Novels, Ancient Romance books. I can more easily add customizable subjects. The cortex map allows for a kind of browsing by subject. Once the subject is there, they go and find individual books. Through trial and error I managed to set it up so I can drop a full hex list of books in one step. It is kind of like a subject bibliography.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really like the idea of browsing knowledge instead of searching it. Have you noticed people discovering books they wouldn't have found through a traditional search?

Not so much for individual searches, but for types of information. I have had people ask for hexagons covering ceramics, knitting, art, and other hexagons. A lot of the public domain sites are very generic. They are designed to promote popular subjects. Most of the tracking is at the hexagon level. Each hexagon has its own URL. I can add unique categories like Wisdom Literature, Visual Novels, Ancient Romance books.…

I like the idea of subject bibliographies. Have you found any surprising connections between subjects while building the graph?
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