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.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#462In 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)
#463I 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.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#464I 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…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#465It’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)
#466- 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)
#467Many 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…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#468A site for filtering word lists and solving word puzzles
Anagrams, regular expression search, and a crossword helper, as well as several NYT word games.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#4691. Zig-clr. "Borrow checking and other safety analyzer for zig" https://github.com/ityonemo/clr 2. Molecular biology editing software. Will plug in to agentic ai workflows
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#470Planning to support a self hosted version soon -- if you'd like to give it a try ping me,.