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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

975 CHF for a lamp.. wow. Any independent reviews that I should trust?

Coming soon! Some people have tweeted about us unprompted: https://x.com/jaybaxter/status/2001729207873999094 https://x.com/FeifanZ/status/2001168758740803781 https://x.com/VivaLaPanda/status/2000758151851966770 https://x.com/__venki__/status/2000378422456148081

What's the reason it is so shockingly expensive?

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

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post #238

I'm working on Tech Posts ( https://techposts.eu ), a Hacker News for Europe! Since the last time I posted on HN it's gained a decent amount of traffic and users. I'm particularly happy with the jobs section, which is growing into a high signal-noise source for European tech jobs: https://techposts.eu/jobs The reason I started this website is because so much incredible innovation and growth in Europe flies under the…

I bookmarked it and moved it next to HN. Hi from an Italian living in Zurich

Hey, thanks!

So much going on in Zurich. Lots of robotics startups. I passed through in the summer and never knew...

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

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Personally, been making a low fidelity exalidraw-like calendar app: https://letswalnut.com.

There’s a real-time collaborative workspace-oriented version, too.

Professionally, working on “Magic Draft,” a feature in Ditto to help designers and writers create the “draft and a half” directly in Figma, which uses a hierarchy of all your context (text, Ditto metadata, the design, your style guides, etc) to write really good starting point copy.

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

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Previously, I made a live win probability model for the 5v5 arcade game Killer Queen Arcade from their game events API.

Now I am trying to use that model to make:

1. A post game instant replay that shows the most important/pivotal moments from the most recently finished game. Some arcades have a seperate display for observers, it could work well there, or as good filler between matches on twitch streams.

2. A personalized per tournament/yearly highlights recap.

If it works well, it might be a kind of tool that generalizes well for summarizing long twitch streams for Youtube.

https://github.com/rrenaud/kq_stream_highlights

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

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Script to auto-rename screenshots with Claude Code I'm sure there are a ton of other projects out there that do this, but I couldn't find one that fit my needs exactly, so I threw this together in a few hours. claude-image-renamer uses Claude Code CLI to analyze screenshots and rename them to something actually usable. It combines OCR text extraction with Claude's vision capabilities, so instead of "Screenshot 2025-1…

I bet you are running some personal server or tinkering VM. Why not use a dedicated, coherent tool like Immich to manage all your image organisation needs? I don't see how this renaming would help me in any way, to make use of old screenshots left in random places.

Maybe instead of shooting people down in “What are you working on” threads (I see you have priors), you can instead share something cool that you’re working on.

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

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post #38

I think frontier models are getting to the point where we can start to reach higher trust agentic workflows. As a hardcore AI chat user, I'm often frustrated with the single-agent workflow, where a single context window is used for even very long conversations. If I want to change the topic, open a thread, or go on a tangent, I often end up compromising the main thread and I'm forced to copy context over if I want to…

Ooh this sounds good, I feel the same problem but never imagined a solution, having a group chat sounds good, any chance this can be integrated in something like Antigravity?

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

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I just completed a holiday project this week to measure the kids screen time using an Arduino device and a web app! I got frustrated trying to get so many parental control apps to play nicely, in the end this seemed like a bolder new approach to the problem. I blogged about the whole build and coding project [here]( https://partridge.works/screenie-christmas-project-2025-26/ ) Code for the Arduino and also the web ap…

does it work with wife or just kids?
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