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

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

#401
Nothing fancy, I want to design a way to compact A.I context during runtime, using R.P.I semantics (research, plan, implement)

I know some Rust, was going about it with clap, but no one I know cares about Rust so I've switched to Golang with spf13 Cobra cli

Harness is pretty cool, but I'm still a quite noob gopher, so I'm taking the chance to learn the ins and outs of Go...

No A.I touches my code lol, else I would learn jack shit

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

#402
I'm implementing Raft consensus from scratch in C++ with raw TCP sockets. Right now I'm working on a high-performance RPC client and server to keep network latency to a minimum. The main purpose of this project is to hone my systems programming skills and get more comfortable with distributed systems as well. One of the coolest things I've learned here is event-driven I/O with epoll and how event-loop architectures work in asynchronous setups.

https://github.com/ayanmali/raft

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

#405
For the past 2.5~3 months I've been working on a 2D/3D VFX (visual effects) editor dedicated to mac and iPhone/iPad, it was on my never ending list of fun projects to build and a perfect excuse to learn agentic coding on a domain of expertise (written in Swift/SwiftUI and Metal).

I wrote a blog post about my process: https://sxp.studio/blog/subjective-building-a-native-vfx-edi...

...and you can download the app here if you're curious (the app is free!): https://subjectivedesigner.com

Next project is going to be a pivot of that project into something related to creative coding and agentic :-)

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

#406
I've shared this one before but I built a logistics management system to power deliveries for a business I founded years back and I've continued to refine it since:

https://toanoa.com/

Since the initial MVP, it's done close to 100k orders and I've added new functionality like:

- Intelligent order batching & route optimization that can interleave tasks across orders in such a way that they still have the best chance possible of completion within their delivery windows

- Further refined the mobile tracking logic in our driver app to improve the quality/frequency of position updates while continuing to be as efficient as possible on battery

- Numerous backend/DB optimizations such that average response times are in the tens of ms at the current volumes it's handling.

It's not open source but if you have an interesting use case and are curious about it, feel free to reach out.

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

#407
A way to track versions of ALL software and notify users about new version.

Started with a niche and launched it: VersionAlert for Unity (https://versionalert.com/unity)

Working on the bigger product still. Existing solutions I've found in this space seemed lacking. On my website, I want people to quickly find the software they want to be kept up to date about (with a smart search bar that does the heavy lifting for them) and easily sign up for notifications for new versions. Hope to make a Show HN for it soon!

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

#408

I’m continuing to work on my daily puzzle game Tiled Words! https://tiledwords.com Forbes just wrote an article about it which was a fun surprise! [1] It recently turned 6 months old which is wild to me. My wife and I have made a new puzzle every day for half a year! I wrote a blog post about this [2] I recently released user logins. That went well and a lot of people are using them. I also let you filter the backlog…

I've been playing this since it was first mentioned on HN a few puzzles in. It's a nice idea and pretty well executed.

I have, however, rejected making a user login. I recognise you're putting in time and energy to make something I'm just taking without payment, and it's your right to try to leverage it into something more - I wish you all the best in doing so - but asking for a user login as a gate to a feature you clearly don't need a user login for is enshittification.

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

#410
This starts from my frustration when opening large CSV files, but later evolved to a log/data analyzer that loads arbitrary format in constant time (O(1)).

https://github.com/Verticalysis/Hitomi

The secret: I engineered an incremental combinatorial parser capable of processing customized format from a steam. Any inputs, including file or the stdout from a command, are first chunked and then fed to the pipeline. The UI is ready when the first small chunk is processed.

Other highlights: 2-mode filter, one with a convenient UI and the other is based on an extensible DSL for complex cases;

Timeline mode scrollbar, a secret weapon for log or time series analysis;

Column widths fit to content automatically;

Native code, no web bloat;

Cross-platform (currently Windows and Linux, MacOS WIP).

If you are tired of all the quirks Excel have when working with CSV files, you'll gonna love it!

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