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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 zeta0134 »

Still chugging away at my NES rhythm game. Currently, in addition to climbing the content mountain (so, SO much pixel art and music needs to be made) I'm also slowly learning video editing workflows. I was able to put together a brief gameplay trailer this last week:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4129270/Tactus/

Right this second I'm looking for an alternative to After Effects that runs on Linux systems, as kdenlive has some limitations with its layering implementation. I'll probably give Blender and Godot both a whirl, as I want to get more comfortable with those tools for future projects.

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

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Post by maxpert »

Working on Marmot https://github.com/maxpert/marmot recently added support for vector index. My local benchmarks show pretty decent QPS with less than GB of RSS on DBpedia dataset.

Interesting part is that I started off implementing a research paper for indexing and performance was not good enough. I ended up tuning things up for my own use-case and ended up with good enough replicatable RAG store.

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

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Post by Celeo »

After having it on my TODO list for a long time, I've installed EndeavourOS on another m.2 drive on my desktop. With the advancements in gaming support on Linux over the last few years, over 80% of my daily tasks, work, and games are well-supported by Linux. I've been using Linux in VirtualBox or WSL for many years, but it's been a long time since I've ran Linux directly on hardware. I'm excited!

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

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Post by cgopalan »

For occasions like birthdays or Christmas where people want to give you gifts, I have always wanted to ask them to make donations to charities of my choosing instead. So I built an app to enable this: http://donateyourgift.com/ It is very simple but I didn't find anything quite singly-focused like it, so I built it just to scratch my own itch.

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

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Post by ralmidani »

I'm working on an Arabic-language Electronic Health Records system (moving to Syria in about 2 months and planning to market to clinics there). No current plans to release as Free/Open-Source, but the stack is Elixir/Ash/Phoenix/LiveView/Bootstrap.

While working on it, I realized I should build a small Hex package for authoring and playing demos right in a Phoenix app (it's very easy to author scripts with AI or by hand):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087389

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

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Post by KeybInterrupt »

I am trying to better my understanding of Agentic coding tools and Tool using Agents by building my own, without relying on an Agent that writes said Agent/Harness

I believe writing my own "Toy Harness" is a good way to learn and understand these tools.

Other than that, I did plant my tomatoes today.

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

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Post by beanback »

I’m working on Beanback, my side project SaaS app for ‘effortless digital loyalty for cafes’.

It replaces paper stamp cards with Apple Wallet passes (Google Wallet coming soon) without the need for customers to download an app or signup. It’s still very work-in-progress (forgive the landing page) but I’m enjoying using Ruby on Rails. Please let me know your thoughts!

https://beanback.space/

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