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

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

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Post by efromvt » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:23 AM UTC

For my streamlined, composable SQL variant - Trilogy[1] - spent the last month or two very focused on CLI/ETL/scheduling to support data pipelines for other hobby projects. Have that story in a better place - so time for new things.

Trilogy's model works quite well for agents, but I've avoided making AI features too native in the UI products - not everyone's cup of tea - so this month going to do a spike on a new pure AI native data authoring/exploration experience to see where that can go without messing with the core product, at both CLI/UI layers. Data consumption is (un?)fortunately a pretty perfect fit for the agent strengths with the right harness.

[1]https://trilogydata.dev/

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

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Post by theodorejb » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC

I've been building PHP Handlebars, a spec-compliant implementation of Handlebars in pure PHP:

https://github.com/devtheorem/php-handlebars

I've also been developing Cropt, a zero-dependency JavaScript image cropper which works great for cropping and scaling profile images before upload:

https://devtheorem.github.io/cropt/

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

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Post by kukkeliskuu » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC

luigi_123 wrote: post #348

* This is my first time actually posting anything on HN. I've been making a DSL for writing sheet music specifically for drums as raw text, inspired by ABC Notation (but of course just for drums). Now writing this I noticed that it's kind of complicated to explain and having a landing page would make my life so much easier. But the gist of it is, you write notation that looks like this: https://gist.github.com/Luigi1…

Maybe 10 years ago I started to build Guitar Hero style game with real electric drums, initially to teach myself drumming. The idea was to extract drum information from real songs (so I was exploring a DSL as well). I guess modern AIs could be used to implement this much quicker.

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

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Post by medbar » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:29 AM UTC

Porting doom to my hobby OS and fleshing out my personal cloud with terraform & AWS. Polishing up a project before I open source it.

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

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Post by schipperai » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:32 AM UTC

jimako wrote: post #366

I've just published my first book. The central argument is simple: software development is a design activity, not a construction activity — and confusing the two is the root cause of most project failures. Written for developers, managers, and anyone who has ever wondered why building software is so much harder than it looks. It's on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback formats. https://www.amazon.com.au/Code-Design-s…

I like the overall premise and would be curious to learn more. The Amazon overview reads like it was written with or by AI though.

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

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Post by swsieber » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:32 AM UTC

AI Coding "All the things" (tm). More agent engineering on the bigger stuff and more vibe coding on the smaller things.

A print farm manager for bambu printers in lan mode. I lay down the base types and schema structure and a few other bits here and there.

Using AI to preprocess some amazon transactions from both personal account and business accounts as I untangle them since I started a side business with my spouse a few months ago (involving 3d printing).

Starting on a yoga workout generator and food/fitness/weight tracker.

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

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Post by vgudur297 » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:33 AM UTC

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

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Post by DSemba » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC

I'm working on https://briefin.com/, which turns any topic into a newsletter.

I wanted to replace those passive social media feeds, where I'm just being served what gets clicks. I completely avoided any embeddings or typical rankings, using ai agents instead, to get precise results and things that are actually interesting to me.

Still working on the platform, but I made a tool that already turns Hacker News into a personalized daily digest here https://briefin.com/hackernews/ (with summaries of the discussions)

Let me know what you think :)

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

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Post by schipperai » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC

Orelus wrote: post #81

I do calisthenics 3×/week plus Ironman 70.3 prep, which means my training lives across Garmin, Polar, Withings + FIT files and front-lever sessions that no mainstream app models. So I built one that does both (and have been using for the past 4 years+): logs custom strength moves (front lever, FLAC, ¾ pull-ups), aggregates the connected devices (Polar, Garmin, Suunto, Withings, Apple Health) into one weekly view. Cur…

Which platform have you found is most hackable? I have Garmin atm and like it but there’s no easy way to pipe my data into my agent or server for offline analysis.

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

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Post by davideuler » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:35 AM UTC

I created a dashboard for stability of OpenClaw and Hermes. It shows stability score(10 is the most stable) which is calculated by analyzing Github issue by GPT.

Lots of friends asked me which version of OpenClaw/Hermes are recommended as a stable version. I've no clue of it, and I don't updated my OpenClaw/Hermes very often to avoid unstable versions frequently. So I created the Agent Watch dashboard.

https://agentwatch.aicompass.dev/