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

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

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I'm working on a website that lists veterinary practices owned by private equity or large corporations to help people make more informed decisions about where they take their pets. It started as a small passion project after our dog (who was sideswiped by a car) died at the hands of a vet practice recently acquired by private equity. We were billed over $13k for 2 days of care where his diagnosis and the opportunity…

thank you for fighting the enshitification of American Experience.

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

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I built a mobile app for golfers who don't like using their phones while they play. Take a picture of your scorecard after the round and it reads/saves the scores and stats (and allows you to post to the USGA if you keep your handicap).

I'm a self-taught coder who first built this 7(!) years ago but couldn't figure out the OCR part. Started again 9 months ago on Replit (starting with Agent 2 which was okay, then eventually starting to absolutely crank with Agent 3) and it works really well now.

Would love feedback from any golfers! golfrise.com

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

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I'm working on lots of projects. My favorite is what I call "context bonsai" where I'm giving LLM harnesses the ability to surgically edit the context. It's available as a tool. You can say "remove that failed debugging session and write a summary of what we learned." Or you can take a more hands-on approach and say "remove messages msg_ID1 through msg_ID2". The removal leaves a summary and keywords, and the original…

I'm sure you're aware but it's worth pointing out that you will lose all your cache hit discounts with some providers. The next turn will incur the cost of the whole trajectory billed at fresh input token rates.

As an aside, 95 pages into the system card for Claude Opus 4.6, Anthropic acknowledges that they have disabled prompt prefill.

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

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I'm working on Kanji Palace (https://kanjipalace.com). It's a web app that help people learn Japanese language with AI.

Right now, I'm working on the OpenClaw-like feature. So, you can learn Japanese via Telegram. Keep track your progress. Practice conversation with your AI assistant. Etc.

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

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https://github.com/tannn/freethoughts

Inspired by a TED talk I saw [0] where the researcher from Microsoft displayed a program with AI assisting with thinking while someone was reading and annotating a document. They claimed it was a way to sharpen critical thinking instead of killing it. They didn't release the product, but I figured it was cool and useful, so I've spent the weekend creating it. It's been a great way for me to practice using agents, and I've learned a lot from this process.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lPnN8omdPA

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

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I have started working on a SaaS for Doctors. It is basically a patient management system where Doctor's can get complete picture of their patients like visit history, diagnosis, medications suggested, billing etc. I am using Nest.js for backend and Next.js for frontend (Shadcn UI Library)

Side Note : These posts on HN motivated me to start working on this project. Cheers! to the community.

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

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My VPS was purged due to a platform hack. I did not keep a backup, and I am trying to figure out what to do. There is no plug and play solution for backup. From what I understand, I have to set up rsync and dump files via cron to a Raspberry Pi. But there is no snapshot-like feature.

I am using KVM from Cloudcone (their virtualization software was hacked about a week ago) and I am using RPI4.

Then I need to set up my old website again, which is a pain in the butt. I hard-coded cron and a git-based auto-deployment feature (I think).

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

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https://finbodhi.com — It's a personal finance app. It helps you track, understand, benchmark and plan your finances - with double-entry accounting. *You own* your financial data. It’s local-first, syncs across devices, and everything’s encrypted in transit (we do have your email for subscription tracking and analytics). Supports multiple-accounts (track as a family or even as an advisor), multi-currency, a custom sh…

Looks cool! I've had a hard time finding personal finance apps that are e2ee, so this is great.

Only downside is manually importing documents, but there isn't any other way, really, without giving up your data to Plaid or another service.

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