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

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I've spent the past ~year compiling a US nationwide land parcel dataset. I posted it to kaggle a few days ago: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-laye... . I'm around 99% coverage of the US. Learned a lot about land records and GIS along the way.

Could be interesting for finding winners and losers of a potential land value tax

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

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Over the last two years I spent a surprising amount of time analyzing XSD files to understand regulatory changes in financial reporting. It was repetitive, painful, and unnecessarily manual.

In the past two months I built https://xsdviewer.com to make working with XML Schemas simpler: visual structure, navigation, diffing, and faster understanding of what actually changed between versions.

Right now I am iterating on new features and performance improvements. If you regularly work with XSDs or XML based standards and have ideas, pain points, or feature requests, I would love to hear them.

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

#463

I am working on a local RAG LLM designed for lower end PC's - ability for people to try out searching their own documents, seeing it was such a learning curve to get to this stage - hoping others can learn from my mistakes. https://github.com/acutesoftware/lifepim-ai-core Only been public a few days, so please let me know if there are glaring issues.

Nice work. I like that this is local first.

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

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I bought a 300 litre aquarium about 6 weeks ago for the living room. Added soil, plants and water. Have spent the last 6 weeks watching plants grow, and snails that smuggled in on plants, multiply. I over fertilised it and left the light on accidentally for a couple of days whilst I was away and experienced an algae bloom, which was interesting. Added some cardinal tetras and amano shrimp yesterday and have spent a l…

That's amazing. I've been looking at getting my first fish tank lately with my kids. Seems like a lot to learn. Any tips for a newbie?

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

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Been working on canine.sh for about 2 years now.

It’s an open source project that basically turns your kubernetes into a developer friendly PaaS.

Just crossed 2k apps on the cloud version, no idea how many people run it locally, and thanks to a generous sponsorship from the Portainer folks, I’m able to work on it close to full time.

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

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Random assortment of projects as time allows with the $JOB.

- Prototyping a cute little SSH-based sorta-BBS, inspired by the Spring '83 protocol, but terminal-centric rather than web-based. It's called Winter '78, and if we get another Great Blizzard this year, I'll be able to make some progress on it!

- Another prototype, for an experimental HPC-ish batch system. Using distributed Erlang for the control plane, and doing a lot of the heavy lifting with systemd transient units. Very much inspired by HTCondor as well as Joyent's (RIP to a real one) Manta.

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

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Many of my enterprise customers face the microservice hairball problem. Adoption of microservices has been "too succesful". There may be 200-400 microservices, and ownership may be lacking. The number is typically growing fast, because it is easier to create a new one than use an existing one. So I started to work on a side project called "Arch Ascent" for addressing these situations. It seems like it is becoming a k…

It seems so crazy that we have gotten to this point!

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

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Spending the past few weeks building a memory layer for AI Agent's. Sync's with your business apps or remembers preferences in a consumer setting.

Planning to support a self hosted version soon -- if you'd like to give it a try ping me,.

https://www.usesatori.sh/

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