Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by radeeyate » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

I've been working on some electronics stuff more recently, and I designed custom PCBs which read the voltage and internal resistance of the 12V NiMH batteries used by robots in FIRST Tech Challenge. It's not always easy to know how charged or healthy the batteries are for a match, or when it's time to get rid of them. They're pretty small and are easy to assemble. Rather that having a screen (which would take precious flash and pins on the ATTiny412), it just uses a WS2812B RGB LED.

I wrote the firmware in Arduino, which was a great learning experience because I typically work with CircuitPython or Go, where I'm less constrained.

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

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Post by nathan_compton » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

I've been working on binding raylib to s7 scheme and implementing a kanren on top of it basically just for the sake of understanding. I let AI write most of the binding code, though, because that is conceptually simple but very boring.

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

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Post by dpcan » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

For personal projects:

Used ai to create my own mind mapping tool for private use.

I also created a private cursor-like / loveable-like tool that I can use for my own vibe code prototyping on the go with my phone.

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

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Post by didip » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

I am super curious about tensor parallelism and the mechanisms behind how some models can activate only some of their attentions.

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

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Post by jacquesm » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

Navigation.

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

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Post by h3ctic » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

michalsustr wrote: post #18

If you work in machine learning, we are building a much more powerful and faster Neptune/Wandb replacement. https://minfx.ai/

Can it be hosted locally? Would be great to beat mlflow

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

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Post by JTrehan » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

I'm still working on my PDF search engine for desktop: https://www.docgoblin.com/ I'm implementing a bookmark utility right now and hope to add support multiple E-books format in the near future.

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

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Post by Forgeties79 » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

halftheopposite wrote: post #20

Working on two topics that I like : browser multiplayer games and experiences, and tools for developers (mostly used in my side projects). First game is https://geocentric.top where users can sculpt a planet collaboratively and place trees or houses (for now very limited). I plan on making it an idle sim where players will be able to interact by dropping some food/events for the creatures on it to evolve through time…

> https://geocentric.top/

This is really fun. Always a fan of any game that shows other people in real time

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

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Post by jacquesm » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

s0rce wrote: post #14

I 3D printed some new apertures for an infrared spectrometer at work to reduce some issues that cause artifacts in the data to enable higher accuracy measurements, particularly of high index and reflective samples. Seems to be working well now.

Very nice, did you run into any interesting challenges?

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

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Post by bouk » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

Uncorrelated wrote: post #9

I've been working on an iOS camera app to take natural-looking photos with reduced post-processing. The goal is take photos that look like what you see. I just updated the RAW pipeline and I'm really happy with how the resulting photos look, plus there's this cool "RAW+ProRAW" capture mode I introduced recently. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unpro-camera/id6535677796 I initially released it early last year and have b…

It's not available in my region (NL) :(