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

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

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Post by Kerrick »

A library to make TUI programs in Ruby.

It's Ratatui & Crossterm bindings (via Magnus for RustRuby), plus a thin veneer of DX niceties and Rubyist improvements.

It's a rendering library that uses the immediate-mode paradigm. It is not (yet?) a component library or application framework. However, it's the core primitive on which you can build with architectures such as MVU (Elm-like) or Components (Smalltalk/DOM-like). The repository has example applications, including a small preview of what each of those architectures look like with the library (examples/app_all_events/ and examples/app_color_picker/ respectively).

I'm nearing v1.0.0 (launching v0.7.0 this evening) and I would love your feedback! https://sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/

P.S. - This is heavily AI-assisted. Depending on how you view the meaning of "vibe coding" either the whole thing, or just the rust side is vibe coded. I've had a heavy hand in the design and implementation of the Ruby side.

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

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Post by andreyandrade »

Built a crawler to analyze 6,380 posts from TabNews (Brazilian dev community) and turned the data into an interactive infographic. Found that AI/ML dominates ~50% of discussions, Monday 8am is the best time to post, and longer titles (100+ chars) actually perform better.

  Stack: Python for scraping, pure HTML/CSS for the viz. No JS frameworks needed.
https://andreyandrade.com/static/tabnews-2025/

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

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Post by beshrkayali »

https://corefeed.app

I'm working on an iOS app called Corefeed, a feed reader that mixes articles, podcasts, and YouTube channels into one timeline.

The initial idea was a feed reader where entries are not just sorted chronologically but also grouped into time buckets (last hour, today, last week, last month, etc...) so it's easy to show/hide entries in a bucket, mark entries in it as read/archived, and keep up with new posts even when subscribed to many feeds. I also wanted an excuse to play around with Foundation Models, so I added optional AI Digest and Briefing generated from whatever is currently filtered.

The idea evolved a bit as I worked on it though, and now it reads RSS, Atom, JSON feeds, podcast feeds (legacy and Podcasting 2.0), and YouTube channel feeds. It includes a podcast player, automatic tagging with Apple Intelligence when available, feed groups, and various other small touches. It's still very much in alpha and in need of testing and polish, so it probably won't hit the App Store anytime soon.

(If anyone is interested in testing https://tally.so/r/D4kdB5)

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

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Post by Leftium »

https://weather-sense.leftium.com

- The first half was all manually coded, no AI.

- Claude Opus 4.5 helped add several features I had been planning.

Some features were added on a whim because AI makes experimenting so cheap. Like the UI color gradients reflecting the color of the sky based on time of day.

Just needed to point Claude at https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/44846281. Then we worked together to tweak the palette colors and UX (like smoothly transitioning between colors, tweaking more vibrant sky colors)

Open source: https://github.com/Leftium/weather-sense

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

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Post by ethmarks »

johnnyfived wrote: post #24

I vibe coded https://domainhq.ai entirely in a few days with Opus, as in, this was a secondary focus and I never bothered to write any specs. Halfway through I had to ask it to convert it all to React because it was vanilla HTML and I didn't realize (that is not a flex). I have a .ai domain that I feel is somewhat premium, and seemed to be getting lowball offers from domain brokers. And those I spoke to didn't seem l…

FYI, your site's admin login panel can be bypassed by deleting the login modal from the DOM. Also, there doesn't seem to be any authentication for your admin tools (like triggering a scrape).

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

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Post by ManuelKiessling »

Over the holidays, I played with the concept of a two-player online browser game with webcam-based gestures controls:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1puptdm/my_vibe...

https://gestures-apps.dx-tooling.org

Turns out, there isn’t a framework for these kinds of things that covers all aspects (hand tracking, UI, networking, game state), so I built it:

https://github.com/manuelkiessling/gestures-apps

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

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Post by Dathuil »

I started the year by setting out to recreate the city building portion of an old sierra game (Zeus, master of Olympus) the first few days have been mostly reverse engineering the asset files from the original game.

I’m hoping to learn enough to start building my own game based on celtic and Norse history. But I’m also a dad with a full time job so it’s probably a pipe dream

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

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Post by properbrew »

Was getting annoyed having to work out which video call platform to use for intro meetings, so I’m currently working on

https://simplevc.blazingbanana.com.

It’s a private, simple browser video chat. No accounts. You can create a new chat or join via link/code. It also has in browser transcription using Whisper (using https://github.com/huggingface/candle/).

Currently fighting getting background blur to work smoothly on Chrome on Android, which is proving surprisingly harder than getting browser transcription working...

Also still working on small updates to Whistle, a free offline transcription app available on all platforms (with CUDA builds for Windows/Linux)

https://blazingbanana.com/work/whistle

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

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Post by coffeecoders »

denvermullets wrote: post #33
coffeecoders wrote: post #21

I’ve been vibe-coding replacements for the tools I actually use every day. So far: a Notepad, a REST client, a snipping tool, a local gallery and lightweight notes for iPhone. The motivation isn't novelty. It's control. I don't need ads, onboarding flows and popups, AI sidebars, bloated menus, unnecessary network calls , etc. A notepad should never touch the network. A REST client shouldn’t ship analytics or auto upd…

big fan of this and have been doing similar. i just got to a good state with my Linear clone app. im planning to do a REST client soon, how'd that go for you?

Nice, Linear is a perfect target for this mindset.

The REST client went surprisingly smoothly once I committed to keeping it boring.

I'm building Mac apps in Xcode, and I keep multiple small apps in a single Xcode project with a few shared libraries (basic UI components, buttons, layout helpers, etc. to keep all my apps similar).

The REST client is literally just another target + essentially one extra file on top of that. No workspaces, no collections, no sync, no plugins. Just method, URL, headers, body, hit send, show response. Requests are saved and loaded as plain local JSON.

What surprised me is how little code is actually required once you strip away "product features".

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