I've been working on multi agent orchestration
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#432An idle/incremental rpg for fun in my spare time (that doesn't really exist!)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#433I'm still working on GridWhale.
My premise is simple: What if we could build a vertically-integrated, batteries-included, cloud-based development and execution environment that eliminated all the complexity of cobbling together a hundred different dependencies?
I learned to program in a simpler age, when programs ran on a single machine and had direct access to input, output, and storage. We didn't have to worry about client-server communications, or async storage calls, or idempotent microservice requests.
The reason we worry about that now is because modern programs don't run on a single machine anymore. They run on a distributed system with thousands/millions of clients (web browsers) connecting to hundreds/thousands of backend servers.
But what if we could build a platform abstraction layer on top of that distributed system? What if the platform took care of all the distributed complexity and the program itself didn't have to worry about that. From the program's perspective, it's just running on a big (abstract) machine. That's GridWhale.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#434I've made https://rankr.click It's a little web application that allows for the ranking of all kinds of abstract entities. Think of the merging of Goodreads for books, Vivino for wine, Letterboxd for film, etc. This will allow you to instead rank whatever you want across a variety of different categories in a single place. Using your rankings across all these different fields, you can draw analysis of what you like,…
Having to give your personal data associated with Google account to see anything more than login page is too much.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#435Building a Sentry replacement that adds logs automatically and fixes any bugs it finds (https://superlog.sh).
The setup is done via one prompt ('Use https://skills.superlog.sh to install Superlog in this project'), and everything on the platform is usable via MCP so that you don't have to spend time configuring yet another UI.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#436MacroCodex - Adaptive TDEE tracker
Most TDEE calculators only provide estimates. MacroCodex helps you refine those estimates to calculate a more accurate TDEE, which continuously changes based on your activity level and calorie intake.
Not only this, it helps you figure out when to lean bulk, cut, recomp. It automatically provides you recommended macro and calorie targets (which change as your adaptive TDEE changes)
What the community says:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...
Yes, MacroCodex is an extension of the project above. The original domain now redirects to the same guides, which are now hosted directly on MacroCodex.
We also have multiple guides and tools:
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#437I've been working on JavaScript runner for untrusted code. The whole API is only exposed via messages passed over stdio. Security layers: V8 isolates, two-stage seccomp, frozen globals, mount namespaces, landlock, and more.
https://github.com/jonathannen/hermit
Plus it's too early to really show, but also working on a dataflow language (w/ immutable data) that uses some code semantics from Rust/Zig and friends: https://github.com/jonathannen/badger
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#438I've been working on cardcast.gg. It gives you the ability to play Magic: The Gathering with your friends remotely using a webcam.
I got back into MTG back during the pandemic after a long hiatus and Spelltable is what brought me back. My playgroup lamented more features and something tailored to our needs, so curiosity got the better of me and here we are. :)
I've never worked with computer vision before, but I went through a whole journey that started with the classical computer vision techniques and ended with recently migrating to the transformer-based models. Been a really cool adventure!
My playgroup has been consistently preferring it over Spelltable and have been wanting more and more features. I would love for people to try it out and start building a community around it! Discord is on the site.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#439still chugging on Whenish https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749!
outside of that I started to fiddle around with a cross section of observability and analytics with SDKs...building a little tool to give SDK publishers better insights.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#440A better permissions layer for coding agents. The tool works like auto-mode for Claude Code, so you can stay in the flow and only get prompted to allow or deny tool calls when it truly matters, but it is fully deterministic. My benchmarks surfaced that most Bash calls don’t need an LLM to be classified as safe, ambiguous, or dangerous. A deterministic classifier can auto-allow or block 95% of Bash tool calls as safe or dangerous, with only the remaining 5% being truly ambiguous or unknown.
Conclusion is permission reviews with LLMs like Claude’s auto mode or Codex auto review are like using a data center to flip a light switch - overkill.
The main benefit is that your agent’s autonomy can be governed deterministically through policies that can be stored at the user and repo level. The bonus is that you save tokens vs using auto modes.