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

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

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Post by pacifi30 »

I am working on hammer https://thehammer.io/ , it is a voice device that I have build and have been using for past several months for texting and getting answers to my questions via AI chatbots.

I started with the idea of replacing my phone with a texting device that can still keep me connected but realized phone has became utilitarian that it is not possible to replace it.

I still have to take my phone when I am outside but when I am home or at work, I now use hammer exclusively to text or to get answers. The most benefit I have got is that I don’t have the urge to open my phone and go on endless scrolling binge.

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

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Post by rmnclmnt »

In the past few weeks, experimenting with a custom ai agent running entirely in the browser with sandboxed tools exec.

The core is built in Rust, a native CLI is built on top for local experimentation but the most interesting part is the web version: the core is built to WASM and get augmented with many tools in the JS land: - OPFS access (read, list, edit files) - Sandbox Python exec (Pyodide in WASM) - Sandbox DuckDB exec (DuckDB-WASM) - Draw charts - Show images - etc OpenAI Completions compatible API providers are supported.

But if you want a full local and sandboxed execution of the whole agent, the web version bundles also wllama to serve local GGUF models (with WebGPU optional support).

Github repo: https://github.com/rclement/cooper

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

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Post by 8-prime »

I've started building a visualization tool for mobile robots using the VDA5050 communication standard.

There are some solutions already out there but most are either slow, resource intensive, or both. Especially for larger fleets of robots. I'm using it to learn more about VDA5050, Rust and wgpu.

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

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Post by romanhn »

AI resume spam has absolutely ruined hiring. I've seen countless stories of hiring managers complaining about receiving thousands of resumes within an hour of opening up a new job listing. Likewise, good qualified candidates are getting drowned out by loads of customized junk. I'm building a tool for the recruiters and hiring teams to combat this and bring some sanity back to the already challenging process. The general idea is to introduce a small bit of friction that will hopefully be not-too-impacting for legit applicants while stopping bots from proceeding.

First iteration is ready to fly, just working out the infrastructure at the moment. Hoping to drop this on Show HN soon. If anyone is interested in test driving this prior to launch, I've temporarily added my email to my profile.

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

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Post by simquat »

Desktop app bundled with an ai model and a local-first agent so nothing leaves your machine.

Last week I interviewed non-technical people about their experience with AI agents. Many couldn't even use them at all. Either they didn't want to share private data with ChatGPT or company policy prohibited it.

For those of you working with sensitive files – contracts, client records, financials, HR docs – I'd love to hear how you handle this today: simone [at] breadboards.io

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

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Post by Loeffelmann »

405126121 wrote: post #341

Working on Push Realm ( https://pushrealm.com ) the AI solution sharing network. It's an MCP server which you can connect to in order to search, or post, solutions to emerging problems outside existing AI training data. The original idea was just "Stackoverflow but for AI agents" but I have tweaked it a lot, learning that humans and agents work in very different ways. There are multiple potential benefits, the most i…

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

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Post by JeremyJaydan »

I'm working on a website directory (intrasti.com), not really sure what the direction is other than I'd like to celebrate the best of the internet in a way that isn't pay to win, manipulative, or anything like that.

It's a slow business and engineering catalyst that I'm making progress with behind the scenes each day. Suffice to say I'm taking the scenic route!

Currently working on a unified website submission flow for submissions and topic creations (topics are collections of websites) and after that I'll be looking into overhauling the whole site focusing on accessibility and how I can make that a great experience.

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

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Post by joefreeman »

I've been building a text editor. It uses a server-client model, with native/terminal/web clients using a shared (local) server instance. It integrates LSP/tree-sitter/ripgrep/Git/etc, and has a concept of 'workspaces' to easily switch between projects.

I spend less time in an editor now, but it's been satisfying being able to take features I've enjoyed from other editors and customise - and it's oriented a bit more towards exploring code than editing. Key-bindings are arranged such that bare letters are for motions, Shift- variants are then used to extend selections, Ctrl- bindings are for buffer mutations, and leader-prefixed bindings are application level (e.g., opening pickers).

https://github.com/joefreeman/aether

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