I got GIMP running natively on my iPad, and am now working towards VS Code and a few other useful *nix apps
https://files.maxleiter.com/f/gimp-on-ipad-optimized-Dyuygd6...
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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#433I've been working on shard balancing for Playwright Test. The idea is to use the new API released in Playwright v1.62 together with historical test durations to balance tests across shards.
I ended up designing a specialized variant of LPT that works well for Playwright test suites. It's now used in WordPress's Gutenberg project, where it cut test runtime from 35 minutes to 23.
The algorithm is called SALT. Here's the detailed write-up if you're interested in job scheduling:
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#434A lightweight ,portable virtual machine that simplifies/replaces need for containers.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#435Enjoying retirement. Amazed how fast I was able to just stop thinking about software. It's very liberating.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#436I’m attending defcon 34 and I vibe coded an image sharing app running on the badge https://github.com/zitterbewegung/dc34-baogram . When you share a picture you have taken you also digitally sign each picture you share so people know who took the picture . You can also upload arbitrary images using your computer.
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#438Giving another round of attention to a CLI tool for handling RSS feeds. Over the years I've evolved several automated ingest flows, most of which are fed via RSS. For a long time, I used a setup based on rss2email, but it was baroque. Meanwhile, tools of a more standard design, like elfeed and newsboat, do not cater to my use cases. So, I wrote something that handles only feed management, fetching new items (i.e., or elements), tagging, and searching the database. Other issues, such as download and storage of content, tagging policy, storage, and indexing are left entirely up to the scripts for which this is a building block.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#439Building FabShack, a white-label instant quoting engine that gives sheet metal fabricators SendCutSend/OshCut-level capabilities without needing an in-house software development team.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#440I am working on cataloguing Murder Stones! These were stone memorials placed where someone was killed, especially in the UK. Most of them are 18th-19th century. Some are lost. After watching a YouTube video about it and finding there was no definitive list, I registered https://murder-stones.org on Friday night and fired up claude code. There is very little on Wikipedia. I'm collating all the snippets i can find. The…
Might be worth getting your licencing decided to let your contributors know exactly what their rights are.
As it stands it looks like everything contributed is owned by you with full copyright dispite the footer calling it a "public field archive"
> I have a pile of sources.
Gathering from open sources and then putting the content behind a Copyright © 2026 Murder Stones isn't ideal.