The final stretch of getting my game ready for release next week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2764460/Sandustry/
It's an automation game and factory builder with "falling sand" physics. Think Noita meets Factorio.
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#32iI am working on a synth engine (music synthesizer) in Python and C++
not a developer; music producer, classical pianist, and occasional NI Reaktor programmer.
It creates sound from math expressions which were inspired by the Desmos graphing calculator.
The sounds are mainly of the FM/DX7 taste.
i can't decide whether to show my progress on video by hiding or showing the expressions LLM(s) and myself "discovered".
It sometimes sounds extremely musical and sometimes very dirty and experimental, what's normal for frequency modulation.
Please help me decide: show all and open source or continue working on it and pitch it to some big names. ;-) I have the feeling it has strong potential for prototyping, as well as taking the role of a keyboard engine. It is completely viable to manipulation via AI because of its concept.
It runs nicely on an M4 Mac mini with 256 voices of polyphony and has a very high level of expressivity mainly via half-pedaling (sustain pedal).
Velocity, 8 macro knobs, no filters, no fx, ADSR envelope. A web interface and additionally CLI.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#33Been working on adding support for Gaussian Splats directly in ThreeJS specifically for WebGPU:
https://ben3d.ca/blog/gaussian-splatting-for-threejs
This PR was merged yesterday morning so the August ThreeJS release will have this new feature.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#34https://www.play-when.com/daily When? Is a timeline game I've been working on for a bit. It's a board game I love playing with my family and I wanted a slicker mobile version I could play with them.
I didn't quite understand what you meant from your description, started playing it and love it! Educational too!
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#36A new spec, TPX, which is meant to enable building SaaS where the user brings their own inference:
It has a few potentially interesting side effects:
- enterprises can plug their preferred LLM into the SaaS they use.
- self hosters can extend their rigs into the web.
- simple SaaS products can offer LLM integrations without their entire pricing model being upended by LLM hosting and infrastructure.
- we can all live like Ender in Xenocide and have a personal AI that has context on everything we are doing.
- have a no op provider for people who are anti llm.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#37I make a podcast client for iOS that detects and skips ads for you using an on device model. This allows me to sell without a subscription. I am working on v2 which will bring support for video podcasts and YouTube podcasts.
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#39NVIDIA Parakeet running locally in the browser. Implemented in raw WebGPU compute shaders & SIMD WebAssembly audio frontend:
The aim is for it to be a high-performance implementation. Can currently transcribe 1 hour of audio in 20 seconds on an M5 Mac.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#40emira, a tiling-scrolling WM for macOS: https://github.com/lightningboltemoji/emira
I know there are lots of options in this space, but I wanted to experiment with a new approach: a compositor overlay. During transitions (like scrolling on focus, moving a window, etc.) an overlay pops up and uses _screenshots_ of windows for animating while the real windows move below. Once in place, the cover dissolves out. It's not perfect, but this makes it _feel_ much closer to native.