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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by mentalgear »

paulmooreparks wrote: post #442

I'm building Tela ( https://github.com/paulmooreparks/tela ), a self-hosted relay that tunnels TCP services through encrypted WireGuard connections. The key difference from Tailscale and similar tools is that it requires no TUN adapter, no root access, and no admin privileges on either end. It runs entirely in userspace. My initial motivation was wanting to RDP and SSH into my home workstation from a locked-down corp…

Very interesting - but I also find it important for solutions to state the trade-offs if they provide a novel approach that doesn't have the same requirements as the main contenders. In your case, what are the trade offs for running in user space ?

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by ashtavakra »

I am building localgcp - This is localstack / floci equivalent for Google Cloud platform : https://github.com/slokam-ai/localgcp - currently supports 14 services, including Vertex AI and BigQuery.

Part of building this, I decided to build a BigQuery emulator from scratch and learned a lot about GoogleSQL (previously ZetaSQL) along the way: https://github.com/slokam-ai/localbq

I plan to maintain and improve this going forward. The goal is to see how much can emulators actually do.

Website: https://localgcp.com/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by shevy-java »

I am mostly polishing old code and old documentation, nothing fascinating. For instance yesterday I fixed a small project called "environment", or fixed it to about 90% - output example here:

https://i.imgur.com/uHpnUox.png

(Don't mind the errors or display issues for now; this project will report which versions of programs are installed on the given computer, and which ones could be updated. A few smaller bugs still remain but the main rewrite was finished now.)

For work-related reasons I have to expand on some python tasks in the coming weeks. Trying to find something interesting here, but I guess I'll just focus on various bioinformatics-related tasks (also related to work). Programming for the most part is not extremely interesting - the only part I actually like is any creativity and useful end results. Fixing bugs is annoying to no ends. Writing documentation is also boring, but can not be avoided.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by riddu »

App for creating a competency matrix, which is at the heart of how a company defines skills, evaluates people, and supports growth. A lightweight tool for managers to run their teams day to day, including 1 on 1 notes, development goals, and overall team management. It's called Matricsy (matricsy.com), but right now I'm working on PL version: https://matryca-kompetencji.pl/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by itake »

paulmooreparks wrote: post #442

I'm building Tela ( https://github.com/paulmooreparks/tela ), a self-hosted relay that tunnels TCP services through encrypted WireGuard connections. The key difference from Tailscale and similar tools is that it requires no TUN adapter, no root access, and no admin privileges on either end. It runs entirely in userspace. My initial motivation was wanting to RDP and SSH into my home workstation from a locked-down corp…

I think this is the same as using a cloudflared tunnel?

to access my home desktop machine, I run:

``` $ ssh itake@ssh.domain.me -o ProxyCommand="cloudflared access ssh --hostname %h" ```

and I setup all the cloudflare access tunnels to connect to the service.

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