Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by hilti » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

After watching the movie „The Amateur“ I started to build myself some confidential looking tools just for fun using C and deployed them as CGI programs.

A one time secret tool https://iotdata.systems/apps/secret.cgi

A password generator https://iotdata.systems/apps/pass_gen.cgi

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

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Post by yu3zhou4 » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

PyTorch compiler and runtime for WebGPU https://github.com/jmaczan/torch-webgpu

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

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Post by GZGavinZhao » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

I'm trying to make a Chinese Hanzi variant of Wordle called Handle 汉兜 [0] available as a Discord activity/app so my Discord groups can have fun solving puzzles just like we've been having with NYT's official Wordle Discord app[1]. A Discord app is just a webview or iframe embedded inside Discord that you can launch.

[0]: https://handle.antfu.me [1]: https://discord.com/discovery/applications/12117814899314524...

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

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

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Post by ebcode » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC

SourceMinder: A “code index” tool that finds symbols in a codebase and creates a single table sqlite database for the index. It uses tree-sitter to parse the AST and add the symbols and what they are (function, class, argument, etc) to the db. I currently have it working with TypeScript, C, Go and PHP. I’m working on adding Perl next, after someone requested it here on HN.

https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder

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

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Post by justvugg » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

I’m working on PolyMCP a simple and efficient way to interact with MCP servers using custom agents

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

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Post by seshagiric » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

1. Developing an voice AI agent (applied AI, not research)

2. Production ready AI - mix of code and human eval

3. Understanding and building for the new agentic AI commerce

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

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Post by drchiu » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

https://sendbroadcast.net - I've been working on it since October 2024, and it's still going strong.

Currently on v1, but working on v2 release in the next month.

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

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Post by ricohageman » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

foxandmouse wrote: post #213

I’m working on a real-time tracker for the Canadian Parliament. While the official data is technically public, it's practically inaccessible (buried in XML feeds and legacy sites). Phase 1 was building a modern ingestion engine and freeing the information to make it more accessible. The goal is to make legislative data as accessible as sports stats. I'm almost ready to launch the MVP; I'm just doing some bugfixes and…

I've been thinking about something similar for my city council. Would be interested to compare notes! Your email seems to be missing in your profile, but you can find my email in mine if you want to chat.

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

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Post by s0rce » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #29

s0rce wrote: post #14

I 3D printed some new apertures for an infrared spectrometer at work to reduce some issues that cause artifacts in the data to enable higher accuracy measurements, particularly of high index and reflective samples. Seems to be working well now.

Very nice, did you run into any interesting challenges?

Mostly what I was able to read from the papers seemed to work. There were some remaining issues related to detector non-equivalence (I think) that appear to be solved with a temperature stabilized detector or very strongly attenuating the beam; the latter isn't ideal as it reduces the signal to noise.