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

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

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Post by abbadadda »

ComputerPoker.ai

We trained PyTorch models on solved poker scenarios for post-flop, turn, and river situations. The planned "killer feature" is to give users feedback on their poker play in the flow of a simulated poker tournament or simulated cash game scenario. The goal is to play against "GTO Bots" (Game Theory Optimal Bots) to learn how to play closer to GTO.^1

Poker has been a passion of mine for a few years now, I find the game incredibly intellectually stimulating as well as a tremendous catalyst for personal growth, and this project has been a great way to channel that energy.

The web app uses Django/Channels/WebSockets. We've built an internal discounted CFR solver as well, hopefully building up to multiway scenarios in the future. The webapp is still in Beta/gated, and you're interested in learning more please email contact at surlesol dot com.

We are thinking of pricing $8/month or $74.99/year, with the rationale that this will be far less expensive than learning by experience at even micro stakes for online poker, with better feedback for learning, and at least we make it explicit that you're competing against bots ;-)

1. I am aware that GTO play is not always optimal, especially in live poker where live tells are available, and often exploitative strategies fare better than pure GTO. The target audience for ComputerPoker.ai is not hardcore poker pros, there's plenty of existing software for that, but rather those individuals looking to get acquainted with what GTO play "feels like." Then, with this knowledge in hand, knowing what the GTO play would be given various assumptions about our range and a reasonable opponent's range, we can deviate from the GTO play as deemed necessary.

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

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Post by m00dy »

X-Ray Feed – A Chrome extension to visualize the Twitter/X algorithm

I got tired of guessing why my timeline looked the way it did, so I built a tool to reverse-engineer the "Heavy Ranker" logic in real-time.

It’s an MV3 extension that overlays the hidden weight of every post directly in the feed. It distinguishes between organic content ("Thunder" nodes) and AI-injected recommendations ("Phoenix" nodes) so you can actually distinguish following vs. algorithmic fill.

The scoring is based on a log10(Engagement) * 20 formula to visualize velocity. I originally built it just to clean up my own feed hygiene, but it turned out to be a pretty useful arbitrage tool, identifying "flops" (good topics from big accounts that failed due to structure) that are worth rewriting.

All the analysis happens locally in the browser. Would love to hear what you think about the scoring accuracy.

https://xrayfeed.deepwalker.xyz

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

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Post by mikeayles »

liu3hao wrote: post #497

Hi HN, I am working on Circuitscript, a language based on python to describe electronic schematics: https://circuitscript.net/ . A basic IDE (called the Bench) to try Circuitscript is available online: https://bench.circuitscript.net/ I have created a usb-uart converter board with the CH340 chip. The complete schematic was coded with Circuitscript and then imported as a netlist into kicad pcbnew to do the pcb layout.…

This looks awesome, great job.

How effective at circuit generation are LLM's with the language? I tried similar, and could get syntactically correct files, but the content always had errors: https://www.mikeayles.com/#tokn

What are your thoughts on atopile and tscircuit?

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

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Post by abhgh »

onel wrote: post #502

https://github.com/askmanu/acorn A straightforward and simple AI agent framework. It puts a lot of emphasis on the loop and the steps in that loop. You can change in real time the model, the temperature, the tools, the history. You're also able to spin-off work on a branch and then add the result of that work on the main branch. Still early but developing very fast.

I notice you mentioned dspy - do you also support prompt optimization?

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

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Post by algo_trader »

matus_congrady wrote: post #492

https://github.com/stacktape/stacktape An alternative to tools lik sst.dev or serverless framework, or a PaaS services like Render.com or Flightcontrol. Deploys to user's own AWS. IaC-first. Has a PaaS-like console UI. The best features: auto-generates IaC config by scanning your code. Has built-in EC2 runner which is 2-6x faster than AWS CodeBuild. We've now also implemented dev mode, which is similar to SST. It dep…

I have a spring/react jar.

Previously I built a jar/docker and deployed to a common server. Fine.

Can this service deploy this to AWS free tier? Will it "know" how to avoid any paid services? (I don't necessarily need a docker or even permanent storage yet)

EDIT: Also - charging a % of AWS bill is pretty wild...

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

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Post by tcaxle »

A django-based "offline" social media platform (i.e. forum) designed for access only from a single (isolated) WiFi network via captive portal techniques. The goal is a "digital bulletin board" that is geographically isolated and community-moderated (think Reddit's karma system but enough down-votes will delete your post).

Not anywhere near production-ready yet but if this is up your street and you want to contribute then I'd be grateful! I have the back-end stuff well under my belt but I'm allergic to javascript and my CSS skills are pretty limited also.

Also in the works down the line: a simple document management system (another Django app, probably) that allows basic but ISO-compliant document control (centralised access controls, automatic document-numbering, review/approval and draft/issue processes, configurable document indices, etc.) aimed at SME or contractor use. Everything else I've tried in this category of software is either abandoned (or otherwise stuck with a tech-stack from nineties), active but a PITA to ensure ISO-compliance, or hugely over-complicated (i.e. ideal for a big corpo but too much admin overhead for an SME) so I'm brewing my own that aims to meet the minimum feature-set needed for easy ISO-compliance.

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

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Post by jjude »

hilti wrote: post #431

I always wanted a minimalistic CSS framework for my projects, so I started to create my own: THINK THINK is a modern CSS-first UI framework built on semantic HTML, custom elements, and data attributes. Uses :has(), container queries, and density scaling. No classes, no build step. It‘s work in progress but I‘m pretty happy with the outcome so far, especially the data table component and automated Insights. I know it‘…

Been using tachyons.css

Would love to take this for a test if it is available for public use

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

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Post by deepakorani »

I have been working on chemistry arena designed to benchmark the current SoTA LLM's on drug discovery tasks. My plan was to then focus on getting this annotated to sell this data for post training of scientific reasoning models. https://github.com/deepakorani/chemistry-arena.

Also trying to find a co-founder who I can work on projects and solve problems faster to be honest.

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