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

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

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Post by vinayak-shukla »

while I was using claude code, I was playing some lofi music in the background while it was 'Combobulating' and I thought what if it could auto-play lofi beats while working and stop when it has finished running. So I built a claude code plugin, I call it vibe-coding. Can check out/add the repo as a marketplace and plugin from here: https://github.com/Vinayak-Shukla/vibe-coding

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

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Post by piinbinary »

I've been going through Nora Sandler's Writing a C Compiler book and writing a compiler in Python. I'm excited to start the chapters on optimization - those seem like the most fun algorithm problems.

I recommend the book. It certainly isn't easy (maybe 3x harder than Crafting Interpreters), but I've learned a ton (eg how to deal with operations on different sizes of types, or the trick of using pseudoregisters to avoid having to figure out registers up front).

https://github.com/jmikkola/writing-a-c-compiler-python

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

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Post by rexma »

A language learning app called lexaway. Premise is people can learn like LLMs learned - word prediction. I use tatoeba, an online sentence pairing thing, and it's nice well it's worked for me. I hate the green bird fyi so it's free and open source.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lexaway/id6761870125

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

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Post by arvida »

Mainly working on https://localhero.ai, automating i18n translations for product teams. Basically runs as a GitHub Action, translating new strings on PRs matching your brand voice and glossary. Got our first fully selfserve customer a few weeks back (found us through the docs). Interesting work lately has been improving how the system learns from manual edits, when someone tweaks a translation in the UI, it feeds back into translation memory and influences future translations in a smart way. Also did stuff like improving our agent skill, so coding agents get glossary/style guide context automatically and they can write source copy that better matches the brand.

Been pushing some new stuff on https://infrabase.ai as well, my AI infrastructure tools directory. Traffic growing steadily from comparison and alternatives pages. Interesting finding is that blog posts rank better but get fewer clicks now because AI Overviews, interactive comparison pages still earn clicks. ChatGPT has also started citing the site more as a source. Adding new content and polishing existing parts of it, added a page focusing on EU based services at https://infrabase.ai/european.

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