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

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

#411
I posted this earlier but realized that I had pointed it at a different "What are you working on" post. I think this one (david927) is the defacto "official" one.

Anyway, I built a way to chat with the documents in this post (updates live). https://nthesis.ai/public/702445eb-f0e4-4730-b34f-f34eb06dd6...

Or you can do a basic text search: https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-working-on

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

#412
Mafia Arena -- Benchmarking LLMs for EQ

https://mafia-arena.com

The only problem I have is that it's so effing expensive to run those games that I can't have a good number of games to claim to be any sort of legit benchmark. BUT so far the games that I paid out of pocket and ran are looking good and I think there is merit to this.

also had lots of fun building on top of Cloud Flare and solving some distributed systems problems while building this.

if you can help me run more games (for science!!) let me know!

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

#413
I've been thinking about building a compiler for a while, but didn't have much time to do it. Over the break, I finally built a significant portion of a working, optimizing compiler. Heavily built by AI, of course.

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/full-optimizing-compiler-with-ai...

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

#415

Article about Norway problem in YAML. Draft is ready (link: https://lab174.com/blog/202601-yaml-norway ), beta readers welcome, please let me know if you have any feedback - thanks! Also, my iOS apps; they're free and with no ads: - Nonoverse (link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nonoverse-nonogram-puzzles/id6... ), a game about nonograms (image logic puzzles), now has 200+ levels. - Polygen (link: https://apps.apple.…

About the YAML problems: a friend of mine created https://github.com/romshark/yamagiconf - which is an opinionated parser w/o the YAML problems

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

#417

Spent about 2 years improving printing and scanning stack of Linux: CUPS, SANE, AirSane, as well as some legacy drivers, and also x86 proprietary driver emulation on ARM with Box86. Even that "modern" printing stack in Linux is 20+ years old, there's still such an unbelievable amount of basic bugs and low-hanging-fruit optimizations, that it's kinda sad. Not to mention that it still maintains ALL its legacy compatibi…

Any relation to this project? https://www.opentools.studio

Nah, I got into printing because nobody made a commercially available print server, and I ended up making my own, with all the involvement in the stack in the process.

I wish Openprinter luck, as it has been announced in the end of September but nothing out there yet, not even the crowdfunding campaign.

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

#418

I’m building a Java stack for the x402 protocol. I believe today’s payment systems are unnecessarily broken and overly complex. I really like the idea of a protocol that could simplify this space while remaining truly open and not “owned” by anyone—meaning anyone can use it without needing authorization from the protocol’s creator. It’s fully open source: https://mogami.tech

Oooooh this tickles many of interests! Good stuff, I'll be keeping an eye on this, might be interested in contributing.
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