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

It's my first time starting a physical, retail business and it has been quite an education in the small details.

https://vistacker.com - allows disconnected operation, auto sync across multiple machines with optional encryption so the service can’t see your data.

I'd love to get some feedback (have a few friends trying it out).

https://github.com/cuzzo/clear

The goal is to make Rust code nearly as easy to write as Ruby, but it almost always does the absolute best strategy.

You can write somewhat slow untyped code, and the internal tooling can guide you to adding all the types and optimizations and concurrency strategies that will make your code as fast as possible.

This has some interesting implications. If you make a mistake, you can always backtrack and try again. If you have a crocheted piece, at least in principle you could find the lose end, free it, and work back stitch by stitch to reverse engineer it. (In practice people don't seem to do a stitch-for-stitch reverse engineering just like you probably wouldn't bother reimplementing something line by line without a compelling reason, you figure out what's going on in the challenging places just by look and feel and improvise from there.)

I'm oversimplifying somewhat and there are some forms of crochet that include irreversible stitches, yarn can be felted together (entangled, like a cotton ball) to create irreversible bonds between adjacent strands, and often several panels/pieces are joined together irreversibly to create a larger piece.