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

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

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Post by winrid »

Still building https://FastComments.com :) I'm planning on launching a desktop app for it soon with a combined forum. So you could have a community on something like discord, but all the chats are indexed and searchable through a web forum style interface as well. The desktop app is a native C++ app so no electron :)

I'm also working on launching https://watch.ly (network/fs sandbox with human in the loop for ai agents), mostly waiting for the entitlements from apple at this point...

oh and I launched https://dirtforever.net recently to keep Clubs going for Dirt Rally 2 without the EA servers. Learned about the egonet protocol and made a server.

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

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Post by kiproping »

I am working on a research institute for East Africa, https://maiyoinstitute.org/. I want to tackle the dire lack of environmental data, by using 1. low cost hardware 2. Artificial Intelligence 3. Long term horizon. The problem set is huge, but I am focusing on low cost sensors for Air and Water data collection plus bioacoustics for now.

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

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Post by danparsonson »

paulhebert wrote: post #297

I’m continuing to work on my daily puzzle game Tiled Words! https://tiledwords.com Forbes just wrote an article about it which was a fun surprise! [1] It recently turned 6 months old which is wild to me. My wife and I have made a new puzzle every day for half a year! I wrote a blog post about this [2] I recently released user logins. That went well and a lot of people are using them. I also let you filter the backlog…

Thank you for Tiled Words which I play regularly! I introduced it to a couple of friends and now they compete every day for the best time to finish :-)

While you're here if I could make a small suggestion - the wording of the 'type of' questions was confusing to me until I got used to it; 'stop' is not really a type of 'watch' for example, so maybe you could find a different way to phrase those? Maybe there isn't a neater way to encapsulate the idea of 'is a prefix or suffix to', I don't know, but I found it difficult. Anyway kudos to you and your wife, it's a great game!

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

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Post by jcranmer »

Float-explorer, a tool for generating very precise assembly programs to explore the darkest recesses of floating-point behavior on your processor without having to bully the compiler into generating the code for you.

And when I say darkest recesses, I'm not referring to "0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3" (which is fairly well-known) but things like "so when you turn on denormal flushing, how exactly are you defining it because there's at least three different definitions..." Or also "does my emulator actually emulate floating-point behavior correctly, or is it delegating to the current hardware which might have a slightly different definition?"

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

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Post by ddahlen »

Research grade orbital mechanics, specifically of asteroids/comets. I've been working on it for 4 years now, finally tried using some AI tooling the last few months and ended up vibe coding a fun little visualization.

(Desktop Strongly recommended) https://dahlend.github.io/ketev/

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

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Post by rmorlok »

I've been working on my open source integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) auth proxy. It provides an embeddable integration marketplace where users can connect 3rd party apps, and it provides a proxy endpoint to the host application to send authenticated outbound requests. That way token refresh, audit, etc stay with this system and frees the host application/agent/whatever free to just focus on the business logic.

https://github.com/rmorlok/authproxy

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