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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)

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Post by zahlman »

I've been hacking away on some scripts to clean up saved ChatGPT transcripts (surprisingly annoying because of how the app's JavaScript works, and I discovered too late that some of them were incomplete; but I have workarounds now) and convert them to a fairly minimal Markdown with some custom restructuring. This is mainly so I can share them on my blog and discuss some experiences of using the LLM; but also I'm extracting some code samples as the basis of some small projects I've had in mind for years but could never motivate myself to start (at least partly from an inability to choose).

In particular: an image viewer with a small suite of extra functionality; and a browser extension for cleaning up URLs and then bookmarking them in a more organized way that I might actually use meaningfully.

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

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Post by iamflimflam1 »

I'm working on a totally vibe coded clone of Elite - https://github.com/atomic14/harmless - so far it's pretty playable.

You can try it out here: https://harmless.atomic14.com

I'm planning on doing it Open Vibe Code. Add an issue and I'll set Claude on it.

PRs will be rejected out of hand. I don't want your code. I want your words.

It's just a bit of fun to see what's possible.

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

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Post by ihrimech »

I’m working on https://fittingme.ai, a product-page widget for fashion e-commerce.

It answers two questions that are usually handled together inside the fitting room: “How might this look on me?” and “Which size should I order?”

The virtual try-on renders the garment using a shopper’s photograph. The size recommendation component estimates the users measures, use the brand’s size chart estimated measurements and suggests a size plus a fallback.

The merchant integrates both through two widgets.

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

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Post by helloakariq »

meandave wrote: post #237

I've been building the most advanced automotive diagnostic app on the market I used to be a mechanic, and spend a lot of my free time working on project vehicles, motorcycles, tractors, trucks etc. I wanted a tool to track the tasks I needed done, then a way to easily access VIN info for parts search, then I DMV records, and finally built an iphone app to scan the OBD2 diagnostic codes and hook them up to a custom ai…

Nice one! Is the iPad app a full fledged iPadOS app or just a browser for now?

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

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Post by Bootvis »

I'm working on my typed, fast data frame language Ibex: https://github.com/bobjansen/Ibex

It is usable stand alone but also through an R package:

https://bobjansen.net/faster-than-data-table-introducing-ibe...

It performs better than data.table in my benchmarking on a wide array of tasks and is competitive with Polars on low core counts.

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

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Post by zahlman »

taylorfinley wrote: post #133

I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…

> skeuomorphic

I keep seeing this word. Every time, I have to look it up; I marvel at the fact that we have such a cool word describing a complex but interesting topic; and apparently forget it again. And then I never find a situation where I can use it.

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

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Post by dummydummy1234 »

So I am working on building a low latency streaming dataflow framework - ala gnuradio but actually usable in production. The idea is to have deterministic latency as a first class objective and let all the other benefits fall out of that.

Additionally:

Live graph reconfiguration Timed events Easy simd support Support for non-mmu based architectures Imperitive configuration management and querying at the single runtime level. Can be compiled to wasm, and run in the browser (w/ coors headers). IO/user interface and any GUI is done via typescript.

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

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Post by bogzz »

I'm working on a tool for visualizing biological pathways, pulling data from the Reactome knowledge graph for now. Trying out different graph visualization algorithms, it's an interesting problem space as they are all approximations to solving a problem that I believe is NP-hard-- arranging a graph such that all vertices are distinct and you have the global minimum of overlapping edges. Next step is implementing a novel algorithm that I found described in a dissertation that doesn't share its code. Unfortunately it's not deployed yet, but if anyone seems interested I will be sure to share it on HN when it's in an acceptable state.
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