Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by Jeaye » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:40 PM UTC

I'm working on the jank programming language!

It's a native Clojure dialect which is also a C++ dialect, including a JIT compiler and nREPL server. I'm currently building out a custom IR so I can do optimization passes at the level of Clojure semantics, since LLVM will not be able to do them at the LLVM IR level.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by Easycoder » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

I'm working with Claude Code to create complete programming systems in languages other than English. Not just wrappers around an English syntax;these are based on an English original but are complete scripting languages in their own right, with documentation, tutorial and programmer's playground. Each variant has its own language pack and they share a common compiler and runtime. The best of all is they are extremely AI-friendly. I've started with Italian and I'm looking for collaborators to work on others. I'd like to do Polish and Bulgarian but any are possible. See https://allspeak.ai.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by cousin_it » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

I'm working on https://suggestionboard.io, a live polling/feedback/Q&A webapp that doesn't require an account. Just launched the first version, now looking at the market and making small improvements.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by saurabh5001 » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

Working on https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-rs

It has some interesting applications for building high performance clients for mssql with tds protocol implementation. The APIs allow almost direct data serialization to wire instead of datatype materialization in rust. Makes for a suitable contender for high performance language interop.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by threefiftyone96 » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

Inspired by Ralph loop and bash scripts, I created my own version of it where I focus on finding code issues and auditing my codebase. It runs N iterations after mapping the whole code.

https://github.com/BVCampos/operator

It has been working quite well.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by davidcann » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:46 PM UTC

I’m working on Buildermark (open source, local) that calculates how much of your code is written with coding agents.

It scans your claude and codex history to find edits and matches those to git commits (even if the code was auto-formatted).

https://buildermark.dev/

You can browse all 364 prompts that wrote 94% of the code here:

https://demo.buildermark.dev/projects/u020uhEFtuWwPei6z6nbN

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by jedisct1 » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC

A new AI agent called Swival: https://swival.dev

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by djeastm » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC

https://www.triviascroll.com

I wanted to make it easier to quickly see/study trending articles on Wikipedia because they tend to make good topics to know before going to trivia night.

I've had the domain for awhile, but just made the app today on a whim.

I use Wikimedia's api to get the trending articles, curate them a bit, add some annotations to provide some context, then push to deploy the static site.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by GeoSys » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

I've been working on HODLings, a private crypto tracker, which doesn't track you!

https://www.geosystemsdev.com/products/hodlings/

In essence, it runs on your mobile device and stores all your data locally. It only connects to the freely available CoinGecko API (for latest prices) and GitHub (for reference and historical data). A background job updates GitHub ref data hourly. There's no login, no cloud, no ads, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by paulhebert » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

I'm continuing to hack on Tiled Words, my daily word puzzle!

https://tiledwords.com

After winning the Playlin Player's Choice award I've noticed an uptick in players as well as some people sharing videos on YouTube which has been fun. I've got a few thousand people playing every day.

I just launched user accounts today so user's can now track their progress across devices and share their stats with each other. This ended up being a bigger chunk of work than I expected but I'm really pleased with how it turned out. (Though I launched it 15 minutes ago so I'm holding my breath for bug reports)

I'm fine-tuning my internal puzzle-building now with the goal of letting people use them to make and share their own puzzles soon!