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

I made Claude build me a web app to come up with anagrams: https://github.com/egeozcan/anagramci

I'm now having immense fun trying to come up with anagrams to whole sentences in Turkish.

I guess you could even automate finding anagrams (there are even web sites which allow you to do so), but Turkish agglutination makes it so much fun, and you can make really creative ones manually.

Once upon a time I even had made a tumblr to share what I found: https://sacmanagram.tumblr.com/ (also Turkish).

There was a Minnesota company called Healthsense (was acquired by GreatCall which was then acquired by BestBuy, not sure if the company/tech exists anymore) that had a similar approach on a broader scale. Their system used a bunch of mundane smart home sensors in the usual configuration (e.g. contact sensors on doors, motion sensors, etc) but also for tracking patterns and habits, like the refrigerator door, toilet seat, bed, etc. The idea being that an abrupt shift in behavior would trigger a notice for a loved one or nurse to check in. I always thought this was a cool idea and it's a shame it didn't take off a bit more.

The question of "intrusion" was always interesting to me because old folks often face going from nothing to assisted living or nursing home which is often quite intrusive, where somewhat ironically adding a bunch of sensors to your home allows you a bit more privacy.

Kind of a tangent, but I like your type of system as an alternative to the emergency pendants. It always struck me as strange to expect old folks at risk of fall to remember to charge and wear a pendant at all times.

I’m building an open source SaaS for every vertical. I’m targeting e-commerce, restaurants, gyms, hotels, grocery stores. I want to leverage these systems to build an interoperable marketplace for each vertical. I launched a Shopify alternative in December and the Toast one is almost ready. Gyms, Hotels, and Grocery stores ones are in the works.

I helped co-host a popup village in rural South Korea last week. Mix of co-working, co-living and local activities like trail running and bird watching.

Post-event feedback showed everyone loved it. But personally I think we could have done better organizing on the co-working side so people has a more predictable schedule to lock-in.

So I’m planning what the next iteration of this event could look like if the co-working aspect was stronger. Especially in the area of everyone sharing their personal and/or professional intentions with each other. So they're more likely to accomplish those intentions with the help of other participants.

https://protoville.xyz

I've been building an HLS streaming engine with Elixir. It takes care of asset segmentation, transcoding, and streaming. It supports regular VOD playout, as well as live streaming by dynamically building HLS playlists from a variety of sources, including transcoded VOD assets and other HLS livestreams. It has a basic scheduling system and I'm integrating a lua engine to allow dynamic scheduling using user-provided scripts.

I'm hoping to continue extending it until it can act as a full internet TV delivery stack like Pluto or Roku TV. It still needs to be behind a CDN for efficient delivery but basically any CDN would work.