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

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

#401
I'm working on https://gatewai.studio in my free time - it is an agentic workflow engine for content creators.

There are 40+ nodes that can be used to generate and modify images, videos, audio, or vector graphics. Some of them include Crop, Resize, LUT extraction, Levels, Audio Compressor, Ken Burns, Mesh Warp, Recorder, Noise Gate, Compositor and Signal Builder.

It also supports signals for dynamic and time-based configuration values for the nodes. For example, making blur strength change from 30 to 0 gradually in the first 2 seconds of a video.

It uses a WebGPU pipeline for rendering and a homebaked engine for workflow processing.

It is free to use except for the AI nodes and workflow agent. It is not officially released yet, and feedback would be very valuable.

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

#402
I've been working on Source [1], an experimental Git server written in Go.

Source stores repositories in a database rather than a filesystem [2]. The primary goal is to rely on databases for durability, replication, and distribution, rather than introducing complex distributed filesystem infrastructure into the stack.

[1]: https://github.com/iainjreid/source

[2]: https://git.iainjreid.com/source

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

#403
Lots of things.

- Got https://beachcomber.sh pretty much stable. Next stage is to propose to various upstreams its worth integrating. - Custom firmware for some ikea symfonisk dials because the oem firmware on them has some pretty bad bugs. Added features like hold and turn. Getting nice smooth dial behaviour over zigbee etc is surprisingly tricky - Built a skill evaluator tool that runs a skill through test suites and then tweaks the skill context and runs again. Its been pretty effective to be honest, almost all skills you do the first version is laughable compared to the one you get after this automated self improvement. - A robust tmux bridge interface for claude to hook into, and then a director layer on top of that for agent orchestration tooling - a stenographer skill that on the fly ripgrep and builds a rag on your on disk conversation history as a form of memory. Pretty effective. - I have just started a tool that brokers woodpecker ci to openbao/vault to give a gitlab like integration for controlled secrets injection for ci. - Been beating my head against a camera tool for a while now, finally making headway. Many ptz cameras dont support fov move, which nvrs need for ml object detection and tracking. They just have a super clunky continuous move and stop. So my tool characterises the camera with cv tools and calibrates movement curves to produce a data file that can be used by my onvif proxy to emulate the more advanced move commands. - Various helper tools for fusion, like csv based parameterised export, and compliant magnet insert generators. - A pipeline that consumes my content backlog, ie instagram saves, reddit saves, hn faves, etc and analyses them with local models and various algorithms steps to categorise and intuit why it was saved and what the key information is and what category it fits into for future reference etc. - A map of my city that shows live river height data with flood map overlays, contour data, predicted overland flow etc. flooding is a regular concern but theres no great resource to know whats going on. I have about 60gb of public datasets it works with. - A package manager for kicad library symbols and footprints, datasheets - skills for kicad so claude can reasonably interpret the schematic and advise on problems, check against datasheets etc. surprisingly effective. - A gcode controlled expansion board for the Carvera Air that gives you 8+8 channels of control for extraction, air assist, vacuum table, timelapse camera, etc. you only have 1 pwm pin so the protocol encodes over that. - A novel exploration interface for vitamins that renders them in a network graph, showing relationships. When you select one it rearranges around it into a kind of valance orbit style so you can explore chains of effect. Turns out, lots and lots of things relate to magnesium. - A comprehensive usb c pd board with 4s battery management. 3a or 8a depending on version. Trying to do proper pd in is nontrivial so this is a drop in solve. - A new brain pcb for Kinesis Advantage Pro keyboards to give modern firmware, bluetooth etc. - Repacked my rack UPS battery with LiFePo cells, and built an induction/resistive series battery balancer pcb for it. - Playing around with a new debug header/connector concept thats tiny footprint and zero cost to add.

The hard part is getting things over the line, publishing and seeing if theres interest. A thing can be largely done but theres a lot of detail work polishing it up so its public ready.

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

#404
I am working on an online Talmud to explore the old text in new ways! Its been a pet project of mine for over 4/5 years, and to my knowledge its the only attempt to blend the classic format of the text (Tzurat Hadaf) and AI enhanced commentaries sourced from the classical texts

https://talmud.dev/?lang=en

Update: Hopefully this can help those who completely misunderstand the nuance of this ancient text (usually from antisemitism) to better understand what they are reading.

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

#405
I am working on ShopSpec (https://shopspec.io/), a tool for designing bookshelves and cabinets. Enter the dimensions and it generates the parts, cuts, sheet layout, and build steps.

I built it because I wanted to spend less time drawing boxes in CAD and more time building them. Still early and I'd love feedback from other woodworkers.

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

#407
A cliché project, but working on a photo library browser that works in a way that I want it. Technically, the interesting thing is a UI that is reusable across all of my target platforms (desktop, mobile and in-browser with WASM). Rust+GPUI is the first platform I've seen that makes this possible with a reasonable performance and quality.

https://fotohordr.app/

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

#409
post #399

https://github.com/ricccrd/dd I was annoyed by the speed of docker on Mac’s, so I took a journey and decided to rewrite everything about it. DD was original working name and I’m in process of rebranding. But we can run docker on Mac’s with no vm. And its destroying qemu. We have plenty of new features that are comming. Rendering native apps, workspaces, much more.

Thank you! A project like this was on my wishlist for a long time. Colleagues looked at me like I'm weird when I was saying containers without a VM should be possible on macOS. I switched to a Linux laptop because I couldn't stand the experience of working with Docker on macos.

I wonder if some of the macOS sandboxing features can be used instead of relying solely on the JIT

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