Shipped version 2.2 of my Interactive Fiction platform Sharpee with Phrase Algebra.
Designing a new DSL (Chord) that compiles to Sharpee (Typescript).
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
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#242Looking to experience life outside of software, but I don't know exactly what. In short, current filters are:
high total customer face to face time// high face to face time per customer// probably not in sales
as these are too abstract to map cleanly to traditional job board filters I’m scraping indeed and using deepseek to classify jobs according to this criteria, with an aim to discover really good jobs and then put a lot of effort into each of those jobs, like reaching out to hiring teams directly etc. works alright but worried coverage is an issue.
ps- can any one recommend a service or product that does this already? i should be able to set a city and then write my own filters like "this job involves dressing up like a crocodile" or "this job requires ballet dancer experience" and have each job posted in my city get assessed. maybe i get an email each day of matched and not matched jobs. i have tried to search myself but given there is so so so much slop in this space i find it very hard going. and most products do this just very poorly...
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#243Working on a SaaS application that helps academic researchers conduct systematic literature reviews
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#244Exploring highly interactive instrument (piano) practice to see if AI can help students practice better. Full duplex voice agent alongside your practice session. Also exploring live AI jamming partner to practice playing with others.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#245Same as last month for once - optimizing how well agents can work with a new language [1]. I've been able to 2-3x success rate and drop total tokens for complex tasks significantly (though the initial syntax dump is rough - need to do some ablation there to get it down).
The best part has been that I think it's significantly improved things for humans too; it's weirdly satisfying to be able to measure improved ergonomics. Also, since a big pitch/theory was that the language should be ideal for agents as a result of the original nice things for humans it was designed for, it's a relief to be able actually measure a concrete lift.
[1] https://trilogydata.dev/ - SQL with types, composable functions of arbitrary complexity, and a native semantic layer.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#246https://answerjournal.com/
AnswerJournal lets you save AI answers to a personal journal just by saying "save that to my AnswerJournal" mid-conversation.
Each answer gets its own URL, and posts can be public or private. It's a bit like GitHub meets Stack Overflow for the answers AI gives you.
It connects to any MCP-compatible AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc.) through one server URL.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#247https://cloudboss.co/docs/unobin
My original idea for this was to compile an Ansible-like playbook to a binary. I made a POC for it around 2020, and then it sat on the shelf. More recently I picked it up again following a more Terraform-like model. It compiles IaC to a binary with all dependencies included, standardized CLI options, autogenerated configs, optional visualization in the browser, and lots of other features.
To people who say just use Terraform: I do, a lot. But it still bothers me enough to try building something different.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#248I made an HN filter for substacks and blogs:
https://hnsubstacks.com/
It allowed me to explore a serverless deployement (on CF workers) with a toy project, that I wanted to make for myself.
Repo here: https://github.com/ariroffe/hnsubstacks/
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#249I'm working on:
https://pasal.id/ - A machine-readable database of Indonesian laws and regulations.
https://laws.sg/ - Singaporean statutes structured specifically for AI agents.
https://mylaw.my/ - Malaysian federal acts formatted for easy agent parsing.
I'm on a mission to make all Southeast Asian laws easily accessible by AI agents!
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#250https://blorp-lang.org
Taking a bit of a detour with self-hosting the language, now that the syntactic surface, standard library, and initial dependency strategy are on a decent footing.
With any luck, by the end of the week, I'll start prepping for a 0.0.1 release.