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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)
#102It’s as simple as it sounds: 100,000 chess puzzles, all offline, rated (just like chess.com or lichess puzzle modes)
A big thing I added that makes mine unique is the play it out” mode that allows you to finish the game with a chess engine of equal difficulty
You get 20 free puzzles per day, or a $5 lifetime purchase for unlimited puzzles and features: https://justchesspuzzles.com
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#106I am retired, so this may not be of general interest: I am working on my fourth AI coding agent, this one written in Racket Scheme: https://github.com/mark-watson/racket-coding-agent I don't necessarily suggest that anyone besides myself use it. I open-sourced it to perhaps give other people ideas, but it is tailored to just my own needs (e.g., hardwired to use deepseek-v4-flash-0731 via FireWorks.ai; supports just t…
ty for sharing this + your books
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#107It's a bookmarker tool.
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#109I've also revived a project to design/implement a programming language. I'm slowing converging on a (keyword-less) syntax and (Beam-like) architecture that's starting to feel good.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#110I bought that printer in order to print parts for two other projects: a baby monitor (security camera) and a hat-mounted teleprompter monocle. Both using COTS part and running Yocto-based open source images. All affordable products in both of those sectors are completely untrustworthy or otherwise unsuitable for my requirements, since one of which is total replacement of the firmware with my own custom versions.
In my day job, I am a principle embedded engineer consultant working on distributed embedded systems, so all of the above software will be relatively easy.
The mechanical work will be the most challenging, as I am presently only using OpenSCAD. I would entertain suggestions for alternative open source CAD solutions, but I hope to recruit a ME (or two!) to help drive that portion of the work to completion.