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

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

#241
I just released https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/dux

Wanted to have a way to coordinate multiple agents on Linux either via SSH or locally and figured out why not give it a shot?

The result is a pretty cool tool, inspired by similar solutions that after trying them most fell short.

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

#242
I'm working on my Pact app. A shared habit tracker. I need positive social pressure to stick to good habits. This helps me a lot.

You commit to a habit, invite your friends to join, and keep each other accountable.

Little square for each day/week fills up depending on how many members of the Pact completed it. Streaks are dependent on everyone in the pact completing.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pact-accountability/id67551314...

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

#246
I’m building CurateKit.com - a lightweight content curation tool.

I always have growing lists of short texts, facts, and links that I wanted to host on a standalone site rather than burying them in a notes app. The workflow is simple: a browser extension to clip links with remarks, which then feeds into a public-facing list.

I’ve also added a "Substack-lite" feature. Instead of long-form writing, it lets you send simple roundup email digests (e.g., "Top 5 links this week") to opt-in subscribers.

My personal blog (wenbin.org) is currently powered by the tool.

CurateKit.com is in private beta while I'm fine-tuning a few things now, but I’m opening up invites to the waitlist over the next few days if anyone wants to give it a try.

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

#247
Recently started a web design and IT consulting company called Opacity Tech with a simple goal, reasonable prices, and handwritten code. No AI agents writing bloated code, no template based site builders. Just real humans, writing real, optimized, fast code, using experience and knowledge, like the old days. Art used to be what we created with our hands, not what robots hallucinate for us. This from scratch attitude means we can charge less because we dont have to rent platforms or pay subscriptions for services or licenses. Real servers in house too, no cloud overlords.

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

#249
Developing a rigorous scientific definition of what make complex systems persist.

The opposite of the favorite questions: Why did that company I worked for fail? Why did Rome collapse? Why do people get old and die?

Combining information theory with thermodynamics and control theory you get: 1) A set of six pillars that all systems that persist must have. 2) A fundamental 'Action' that all of these systems take. 3) A set of three rules for how system that persists must subdivide

This lets you do things like look at something that is failing and know that there are the 6 pillars and you can then identify them to determine what is failing. (For example there is a system that clears that brain of amyloid plaque and it can fail).

I have applied this to countless systems including Religion, Language, AI Models, Business, the cell, quantum physics, number theory and much more. It is a Rosetta Stone for persistent systems. When there is an unsolved problem in one domain I can map it through this to any other domain that has already solved it.

Note that this doesn't apply to all complex systems, only those that persist.

And to keep this HackerNews related, been applying it to LLM's as they are just a stream of tokens that try to persist to incredible success I might add. Being able to pull from any domain do this brand new field is a giant cheat code.

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

#250
I've been working on an ML model capable of robust continuous learning, resistant to catastrophic forgetting without relying on replay, an external memory system, or unbounded parameter growth. Last week I confirmed the first non-toy, 580M parameter version soundly beat LoRA, EWC, and full fine tuning. This week I'm scaling up to 4.4B parameters...
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