Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by vachanmn123 » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:13 AM UTC

nicbarth wrote: post #253

https://notepad95.com/ I still use regular notepad.exe and text files to take meeting notes. But I thought it'd be fun to have a seperate browser tab for it. https://github.com/nickbarth/closedbots/ I was also trying to do a simplified openclaw type gui using codex. The idea being its just desktop automation, but running through codex by sending codex screenshots and asking it to complete the steps in your automation…

Kind of funny how the notepad is faster than opening notepad installed on my machine lmao

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

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Post by raooll » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:15 AM UTC

I’m building a decentralized Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) orchestration layer that treats aerial robotics as a simple API endpoint.

The system allows users to submit a JSON payload containing geocoordinates and mission requirements (e.g., capture_type: "4K_video" | "IR_photo"), the backend then handles the fleet logistics, selecting the optimal VTOL units from distributed sub-stations based on battery state-of-charge and proximity.

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

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Post by growingswe » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:17 AM UTC

I've been writing interactive math and computer science articles at https://growingswe.com/blog. The past few months, I have been obsessed with interactive learning experiences and currently building https://math.growingswe.com for learning probability.

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

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Post by nocommandline » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:18 AM UTC

An alternative to Oracle's VBCS Plugin for Excel [1]

Oracle's plugin allows you access Fusion REST Endpoints (your business data) from within an Excel workbook but it only works on Windows machines and has some other limitations.

Also added a plugin for inspecting punchout payloads for RSSP [2]

[1] https://vbcs-alt.com/

[2] https://vbcs-alt.com/inspect_punchout/

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

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Post by pdappollonio » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:18 AM UTC

https://securenote.app.

Full encryption for notes (uses local encryption before you even sent the note to the server).

I wanted a mixture of Github Gists (sans Git) and 1Password shares so I've been using it eitj great success at my current company to share snippets and private stuff.

Might open source in the future, just need to gauge interest.

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

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Post by dzink » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:18 AM UTC

jaredwiener wrote: post #186

Building a new kind of news site, featuring updates from primary sources. We're constantly pulling info from official sources, and using AI to group and summarize into stories, and continue to share reporting from trusted, vetted journalists. The result is news with the speed and breadth of getting updates straight from the source, and the perspective and context that reporting provides. Still ramping up, but I'd lov…

Need is valid. The site is showing mostly flood watch warnings - maybe cluster topics? Also don’t mess with the scroll bar - maybe the ads are doing it, but it froze and wouldn’t move down for a while.

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

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Post by suhair » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:22 AM UTC

Our family is enjoying Flip7 card game lately and was playing almost every day. Created an app to make it more fun and engaging by creating an app to manage the daily score and to make it a weekly, monthly competition for leaderboard. https://flip7battle.com/. Only available in apple store for now. It was fun to create and use this app.

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

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Post by stagas » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:23 AM UTC

A music livecoding app[0], it's open-source[1] and it's been in the works for years in various iterations, but I've finally settled on the format and delivery. I'm now trying to make it as newbie friendly as possible by doing tutorials[2] and videos[3] and having ready-made instruments[4] to begin with. Thinking also to expand it as a general purpose creative editor in a standalone electron app and bundle in other livecoding languages as well, for graphics also.

[0]: https://loopmaster.xyz

[1]: https://github.com/loopmaster-xyz/loopmaster

[2]: https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/@loopmaster-xyz

[4]: https://loopmaster.xyz/docs/synths/bongo

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

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Post by nickandbro » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:23 AM UTC

YesBox wrote: post #59

I changed gears and moved into the video games industry at the end of 2021. I started developing a city builder called Metropolis 1998 [1], but wanted to take the genre in new directions, building on top of what modern games have to offer: - Watch what's happening inside buildings and design your own (optional) - Change demand to a per-business level - Bring the pixel art 3D render aesthetic back from the dead (e.g R…

very cool

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

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Post by kstenerud » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:26 AM UTC

yoloAI: Fearless YOLO sandbox for your agent.

Run your agents contained (container or VM, Linux or Mac), with all restrictions removed.

Workflow:

    ┌─ YOLO shell ──────────────────────┬─ Outer shell ─────────────────────┐
    │                                   │                                   │
    │ yoloai new myproject . -a         │                                   │
    │                                   │                                   │
    │ # Tell the agent what to do,      │                                   │
    │ # have it commit when done.       │                                   │
    │                                   │ yoloai diff myproject             │
    │                                   │ yoloai apply myproject            │
    │                                   │ # Review and accept the commits.  │
    │                                   │                                   │
    │ # ... next task, next commit ...  │                                   │
    │                                   │ yoloai apply myproject            │
    │                                   │                                   │
    │                                   │ # When you have a good set of     │
    │                                   │ # commits, push:                  │
    │                                   │ git push                          │
    │                                   │                                   │
    │                                   │ # Done? Tear it down:             │
    │                                   │ yoloai destroy myproject          │
    └───────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘

Sandboxes: Docker (Linux, Mac), Seatbelt (Mac), Tart (Mac)

Everything's contained in a single go binary. Just build and run.

https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai