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

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

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Post by jakerubo »

simonjgreen wrote: post #446

I’ve been hacking on an outdoor sound monitor for 24x7 logging of birds and bats around my house the last couple of weeks with a live indoor monitor: https://github.com/simonjgreen/OpenObservatory And today I knocked out an improved trmnl plugin for Japanese flash cards at my wife’s request as she liked the native one from trmnl but it lacked furigana https://github.com/simonjgreen/trmnl-japanese-vocab Note: I let AI…

Very interesting!

Do you have a hardware list available? I didn't see it in your repo but adding it would be helpful, thanks!

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

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Post by tim-- »

muazzam wrote: post #256

I've been working on a Persian classical poetry archive with LLM-generated translation. As a poetry enthusiast but a non-speaker of Persian, I wanted to read Rumi, Hafiz, and Bedil, but found myself jumping between ChatGPT and Google Translate. I sourced my data from Ganjoor, which was luckily available via their public API. Then I quickly put together a website with bring-your-own-key translation feature. For now, t…

> so you won't need a key to read the translated poetry

This probably sounds like a crazy question, but if you are already getting translations using someone else's API keys, can't you just store/cache that response so that the next time the translation is requested, you already have it?

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

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Post by CharlieDigital »

I'm (solo) spinning off the internal agent knowledge and observability layer used at Motion (YC W20, series C, ~40 devs). It was born out of a need to lift all devs using heterogeneous models, harnesses, and prompting styles to a higher level of consistency and quality while surfacing the visibility to see what's working and what's not. The knowledge layer is integrated into the code review layer and all of it tied together with telemetry to the document section level to see how each piece of context is affecting code generation.

Open source repo (.NET 10 + C# + Postgres): https://github.com/zeeq-ai/zeeq-app

Docs and more info: https://zeeq.ai

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

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Post by cmicali »

Vibe, my Winamp-like MacOS music player.

I use it every day, but had stopped dev on it a few years ago. Fable has gotten me excited to take it off the shelf and add a bunch of features I've been wanting for a while. Working on localization now.

https://github.com/cmicali/vibe

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vibe-music-player/id1582482361

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

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Post by alfg »

Launched a suite of media inspection and encoding tools a few months ago, based on FFmpeg. Slowly getting more customers.

https://video-commander.com

Constantly iterating through refinement and features. It's built on Rust + Tauri with a React frontend, in case anyone is curious.

I've created various open-source and commercial tools in the multimedia space over the last 10+ years and wanted to put it all together into something more premium with an IDE-like experience.

Most recently I added a /playground area to experiment with the inspection tools via a WASM build, which I thought was a neat way for users to try the app before downloading the full version.

Happy to answer any questions!

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

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Post by alexjplant »

I'm going whole hog on LLM-driven development to build out an old school FOSS forum that can run in resource-constrained environments with a minimum of fuss. Think phpBB but written in Rust with modern UI niceties and a SQLite backend. My hope is that interested parties will be able to deploy this on random SBCs or Unikraft and use cloudflared to expose their service to interested parties. Watching old forums that I used to frequent get gobbled up by VerticalScope makes me pine for the days of small self-hosted communities that existed for the hell of it instead of monetized interaction.
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