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.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#562I’m working on a native UI framework in rust. I want to be able to build cross platform, fully native applications with native code. And I want platform native components.
I started with Leptos - which gives you a nice declarative UI syntax and reactive elements. I used Claude to get that working on iOS, cocoa and GTK. I made a nice little iOS schedule app for attendees at conferences. It works great. All rust, native UI and a fast and small binary. The current UI code is here: https://github.com/josephg/leptos-native (not officially part of leptos). It works well, but not all of the components I want have been implemented.
At the moment I’m rewriting the core to ditch the vibe coded parts and break the whole thing into an app backend API and separate platform layer. I want to be able to write apps in wasm and have a windows / mac / Linux host that can run them using native UI. And a runner to run any app using a TUI. And have a compilation process to compile the whole thing into a single native process for app developers and to publish to the App Store.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#563Releasing 3.3.0 version of my Video Hub App - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/ & https://videohubapp.com - 8+ years of development!
Working on 1.0.0 of Simple Image Browser - https://github.com/whyboris/Simple-Image-Browser
Releasing 2.0.0 of my Simplest File Renamer - https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer - Electron to Tauri 130mb to 3mb
Releasing 1.0.0 of My Off Remote - https://github.com/whyboris/my-off-remote - turn off your PC from phone / tablet over WiFi
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#565Browser automation + LLM agents + human curation.
The naive approach has the LLM interacting with the DOM using raw locators and javascript. If a human curates all logical views of the DOM and exposes tools that are only relevant for each, the search space for each agent iteration is reduced by many dimensions. I have achieved deterministic results over hundreds of actions in complex business workflows. Without the human curated layer we barely make it 10-20 actions before things get weird.
Most of my thoughts are currently occupied with possibility that this works in the general case. I think an LLM exercising a tool like GitHub via properly curated browser automation might be superior to direct API access in some ways.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#566I'm building an AI agent that plays Slay the Spire. It currently reaches A20 Act 3 consistently and occasionally defeats the A20 Heart. It use two search: spare graph search for deck building, and MCTS for combat. Parallelly, I'm working on an attention-based memory retrieval system that achieved SOTA on LongMemEval, LoCoMo, and code retrieval benchmarks. https://github.com/AttemorySystem/attemory/ Maybe later I'll b…
An AI able to play Slay the Spire sounds pretty impressive!
What do you mean by agent in this context? Does it mean LLMs?
What search problem are you solving for deck building and is MCTS for combat the same as that in Go AIs?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#567These are all really good comments and ideas!
I created a tool to help facilitate, track and recover lost revenue from Stripe subscriptions for SaaS companies. Called RertyForge, www.retryforge.com
It lets a failed payment be seen from a company owner’s perspective. Why things fail, what works best to recover it, what step of the process is most successful, who is most at risk right now.
It’s bootstrapped and just getting it off the ground. Love any feedback or questions
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#568I'm working on writing up pages for projecthammer.org, the new website where I'll host my database of Canadian grocery prices. It's getting interest from more academics and needs a more formal home.
I've been curious about ways in which politicians who are in the minority/out of power can still make progress on issues that matter to them.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#569I'm working on a family organizer app Mana - The AI-Connected Home App for Households & Trusted Circles https://share.google/dCKfODeN7c1QhHhft
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