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

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

#382
Two full time projects at the same time:

1. Helping to make ActivityPods apps working on top of https://nextgraph.org/ (instead of SOLID).

2. https://cloudywithachanceoflatency.net, network monitoring done right (according to me), for humans and AI SREs (still WIP but quite fun already).

And when I get a chance, accepting some small paying contracts to pay bills. Weird times.

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

#384
I’m working on small agent harness at home for a personal assistant. In spirit it’s similar to OpenClaw or Hermes Agent but I’m mostly using it for learning about agent harnesses to get a better understanding of the ecosystem.

Overall it’s been a fun learning experience and I’m looking forward to some more of the hardware work I’ll need to jump into soon. I really want to get a more focused kitchen / cooking oriented voice assistant working. So far I have a few simple voice-to-timer settings done e.g. “set a 10 minute timer for the pasta” that tells me “ding! Pasta timer” when it goes off. You can set as many concurrent timers as you need with different names.

I need some better hardware before I try using the pi for full hands free while cooking. I’ve mostly been using a webapp on my phone but afaik you can’t easily wake word a phone on a web app without some real hacking.

Overall the projects been enjoyable, once you understand the basics of a harness it feels like there’s a lot of problems you can throw them at.

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

#387
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Helping my wife ship https://quantral.com - a platform to monitor X and Reddit for financial chatter and score companies and authors. We discovered lots of stocks early in this AI cycle from X. There’s lots of noise, so we built a platform to more easily monitor the social sentiment for our investment purposes, but now we are trying to spin out a fully fledged consumer product.

I was curious, created an account but I'm not going to put in card details without seeing the product (even if first 7 days are free).

Maybe allow a new user to view previous data for their specific investment.

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

#388
I'm working on an iPhone app to run iOS-native agents using both cloud and local models, powered by llama.cpp. It has access basic iOS tools such as calendar, reminders etc. but also more advanced ones like a custom JS environment running on QuickJS that can use various custom modules like an HTTP client, Git etc.

It's a project I have been working on for quite a long time and I released it on TestFlight about a week ago. It was really nice to work on something end-to-end, from creating a wrapper around llama.cpp with support for prompt caching/forking and automatic model loading and unloading based on device memory constraints, to the custom agentic harness the app runs on. I have also spent quite a lot of time on agent execution modes that I hope can enable to more easily reason about agent security regarding prompt injection attacks.

What I'm really hoping for now is to get actual feedback, to know if users end up having real use cases where the app is truly useful / interesting for them, to understand what should most urgently be improved etc.

https://bilembi.app/

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

#390

I started wearing glasses about a year ago, and I really struggled to find frames that fit well . So, I'm learning CAD so I can 3d-print my own set of frames. My first goal is to 3d-print frames for reading glasses that I can wear in bed while I read. This way, if I fall asleep with them on and break them, I can just print new frames and pop the lenses in.

Haha, intersting idea. Best of luck on your CAD journey!
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