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

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

#31
Just published two scripts for reading HN.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?by=1628132 HackerBrain and HackerTrain

Absolutely astonished at how useful ChatGPT and Gemini have been in coding this up. Couldn't be happier. But there's a certain level of tech knowledge one requires to get a good result. The more you know what you want, from a variety of perspectives, the better the result.

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

#32
Building ALIS, an Unreal Engine 5 survival prototype set in one reconstructed post-apocalyptic real-world city location. The public source and Windows release, with documented component licenses and GPG-signed checksums, are on GitHub: https://github.com/fallintodusk/alis. Lately: tuning the metabolism system -- vitals run on real medical timelines (dehydration kills in days, starvation in weeks, compressed for play), ending in a dying state you can't just power through.

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

#33
I'm working on https://hypen.space/

It's a cross-platform UI framework for developing native mobile, desktop and web apps using Typescript, Rust, Go, Kotlin and Swift.

Currently it's aimed at "server-driven UI" where your app lives in the cloud but renders on the client, with full compilation to WASM packages coming soon. Of course, you can just embed the server/use it as a library.

Some cool things the framework does/has/lets you do:

- Renders real native components that look the same across platforms

- Out of the box routing system, tailwind support, accessibility and animations

- On the web, switch between DOM and canvas rendering with one boolean

- Embedding apps - you can embed Hypen in any app, but also embed any Hypen app into another Hypen app, letting you nest apps (i.e. the homescreen example)

- Deploy the whole app to CloudFlare just by using the adapter. Then you can have a whole desktop/mobile/web app running as a CF worker.

- You can build a mobile app feature in Hypen and update it by deploying to your backend, skipping app store reviews for bug fixes

- Build apps that share state across devices without building a whole sync layer

- Use DB as a data source - the current state can be persisted anywhere, so if you add a persistence plugin, you can use DB as a direct state source (i.e. have @db.messagess come directly from your DB)

- Make the app a normal part of your backend, use your stack, and just have a small Hypen part that emits the UI

- Let LLM's use your app - not via accessibility and screen reading, but purely exposing state and actions as tools. This is in progress as it's being built with the WASM target, but support will be soon included into the non-WASM builds too.

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I started working on this about 6 years ago out of disappointment with the "mobile stack".

I've build a similar thing for internal use in companies multiple times over the last 10+ years, so I decided to build a public version too. And even tho it took me some time, and native/RN/Flutter got better in the meantime, I am still disappointed by all of them so I kept on building.

The original versions of it - parsers, engine, renderer - were written by hand in Kotlin, then got slowly migrated to Rust, but once LLM's got good enough the rest of it got built with AI based on my handwritten code and guidance. So it's not "vibecoded" into existence, but definitely AI re/written.

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

#37
I’m working on Vinaa, a native Mac app for AI chats. It works with cloud models using your own API keys, as well as local models.

You can organize chats into projects and folders, use multiple windows and tabs, connect MCP tools, and sync everything via iCloud.

https://www.vinaa.ai/

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

#40
Building Uruky with my wife - https://uruky.com

It's private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search. To signup you don't provide any information (a randomly-generated account number is assigned to you), and you can run a proof-of-work captcha to get 2h for free. You can choose among many different search providers, including Uruky Site Search, powering our own index.

We've done a lot over the last few months, most recently adding Mwmbl as a search provider and supporting crypto payments via ProxyStore (anonymous vouchers). Currently we're working on sustainably growing our own index.

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