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

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

#552
working on contextflo https://contextflo.com - building for companies with 1 person data teams who just want their data to be accessible via claude/chatgpt/cursor to everyone, no need to setup a complex BI product when you just want to run adhoc queries on your data. supports postgres, snowflake, clickhouse, bigquery, amplitude.

some interesting use cases are coming up where people want to query across different data sources (postgres + GA4) via chat. Feel free to reach out if you want to try it out.

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

#555
I recently started a project called best web extension https://bestwebextension.com/

Basically attempting to modernize a lot of browser extension which I have been using since like a decade ago. Some of them are outdated and unmaintained and some were good for the time.

The project is MIT licensed.

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

#556
I am working on the agent-friendly scorer. It scores the public repos for their agent friendliness. The project also has a GitHub action to comment on the score delta in a PR comment. You can add it as a skill to find out which agent will perform better for the codebase.

Live: https://agentfriendlycode.com/

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

#557

I've been working on cardcast.gg. It gives you the ability to play Magic: The Gathering with your friends remotely using a webcam. I got back into MTG back during the pandemic after a long hiatus and Spelltable is what brought me back. My playgroup lamented more features and something tailored to our needs, so curiosity got the better of me and here we are. :) I've never worked with computer vision before, but I went…

Interesting, seems you are doing the recognition server-side, no reliable way to do it locally using e.g. WASM on the client?

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

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[NO-AI] Being a weightlifter for 20+ years now, I'm working on a barbell speed and path tracking sensor based on newer IMU hardware technologies, which makes it both more precise and cheaper than camera- or actuator-based systems. Ultimately it helps you lift and train safer and better. It's an intersection of industrial design, hardware, firmware, and software (and some sport science, of course). This intersection i…

How about strapping the phone to the bar and opening a Web page with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Acceleromet... ?

Seems it would have a much higher reach.

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

#559
I am finally getting close to my vision of `write once run everywhere with SwiftUI`. The idea is to create a drop-in replacement called OmniUI which will have different renderer backends (I currently have TUI w/ notcurses and Adwaita/GTK working)

s/import SwiftUI/import OmniUI/

As long as you aren't using Apple platform specific libraries like Vision, you should be good for the most part. I am going to make my Gopher browser (https://web.navan.dev/iGopherBrowser/) the first target. I have done some extra stuff like reimplementing CoreData/SwiftData to make it work on Linux.

I am going with Adwaita instead of pure GTK because I like the opinionated approach they have with their design language. I think the reason SwiftUI works is because you can get pretty looking apps without thinking too much.

Projects like adwaita-swift, and swift-cross-ui do exist, but I want my library to be a drop-in replacement. I don't want to be inspired by SwiftUI, I want to use SwiftUI everywhere!

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

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post #243

Acoustic diagnosis of electrical problems on the electric grid! I'm building a tool that allows you to determine the health of an electric transformer from only your phone. It tells you: - the loading - the health of the windings and core - and whether the phases are unbalanced I used to be a submariner, so my professional background is in power plants and sonar analysis, so I'm getting to combine the two in this. Ac…

> making an iPhone app for it

Honestly if you don't have a specific reason to target iPhones then buying a 2nd hand Pixel 8, putting GrapheneOS on it then pushing an "app" in whatever language you want on it, sure can be Java but can also be Python, Julia, whatever you want really especially on it directly using Termux, could be a better use of your time. By the time Xcode starts you'll already be outdoor testing against the next transformer.

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