Pretty simple, really. Cloud native app that scrapes job postings for higher ed institutions, then send me a daily summary based on a handful of keywords. Mostly targeting something to find remote jobs offered through schools. I like working in Higher Ed and my wife is looking for a remote job. Seems like it should be easy to vibe code and run in a free tier.
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
#62I'm working on something called Kopi: a CLI tool that replaces the slow process of restoring massive production database backups on a dev machine with a "surgical slicing" approach, spinning up lightweight, referentially intact Docker containers in seconds: It spins up the exact schema of your source db and generates safe, synthetic datasets in seconds. It can, if you want, also replicate the actual data in the source DB but with automatically anonymized PII data.
It can replicate a DB in as little as 9 seconds.
It's Open Core: Community Edition and Pro/Enterprise editions.
Still a WiP --> https://kopidev.com
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
#63QEMU device that exposes a vfio-user socket for a PCI endpoint controller, Linux PCI endpoint controller driver and a userspace endpoint function.
It's very unstable at the moment but plan to have it fully implemented and working by the end of next month.
Using it to build a virtualized computational storage device for research.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
#64Working on a single-node job scheduler for Linux. Large HPC clusters use schedulers like SLURM or PBS to manage allocation of resources to users, but these systems are quite overkill when all you have is a single node shared by a few users.
I am trying to offload as much of the complex stuff to existing parts of the kernel, like using systemd/cgroups for resource limiting and UNIX sockets for authentication.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
#65Creating Daino Qt - a collection of components that makes Qt apps feel and look native on both Desktops and mobiles (each with its own set of challenges).
Developing Qt apps with C++ and QML is a blast - the fast performance of C++ and ease of use of writing UI in QML. But there is so much left to be desired with the built-in Qt Quick components - mobile issues like non native text handling, non native swipe-able stack view and much more. I’m aiming to bridge that gap.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
#66I'm working on Bloomberry, an alternative to Builtwith for finding companies that use a specific tech vendor/product/technology. Unlike Builtwith, it focuses a lot more on technologies that can't be detected solely from the front-end (ie devops tools, security products, CRMs, and ERPs)
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
#67Traquéalo: https://traquealo.com
A citizen service initiative that aims to serve as a platform for monitoring areas of need in Puerto Rico.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
#68I'm working on porting KiCad to the browser. It's a lot of sweat and tears, multithreading issues and some more sweat. I've updated a port of WxWidgets and now I support all the features KiCad needs with ~200 tests.
Right now I have a build that loads in the browser, but I really want to have "multithreading" which means workers in the web. One can use asyncify with emscripten to translate blocking C++ to WASM, but that transition is not perfect, right now I'm debugging a bug where there's a race condition that halts all execution and the main thread runs in an infinite loop waiting for the workers to stand up. I guess I'll have a few of those ahead.
The main goal is to 1. just have fun 2. use yjs as a collab backend so multiple people can edit the same PCB. This will probably work with pcbnew, KiCad's layout editor, since it has a plugin system and AFAIK I can do the sync layer there. For the rest ( schematic, component editor etc. ) I'll have to figure out something.. KiCad does not sync automatically if you modify a file, I'll have to do some lifting there.
Anyway, it's a lot of fun, I really want this thing to exist, I'm hoping that I won't run into a "wellll, this is just not going to work" kind of issue in the end.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
#69I've been taking some time off from https://gethly.com, as majority of functionality I wanted to implement and offer to customers is done, so it's mostly just some tweaks here and there.
I was pondering doing something in regards to decentralised consummation of content. I am beginning to see how various websites are walling off their content and centralising everything whilst also monetising access to it for themselves and kicking content creators out, forcing them to run their own websites and use multiple backup platforms(mostly the dying youtube).
So I was thinking about flipping it on its head and instead of going to different websites to consume this content, like youtube, twitter and whatnot, people would have a single program to aggregate it instead. Then it occurred to me that this is what RSS/Atom was made for, kind of. So I am just letting the idea marinate for a bit and maybe next year I will look into it. Mastodon might have some good concepts in it that I want to look into and also come up with some standardised way for richer content that creators could provide beyond RSS to make it more palatable and easier consumable for users.
tl;dr not much this month :)
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
#70There are too many LLM-related projects. Setting up multiple runtimes, Python, Node, Go, Rust and then some environments, different CUDA versions, dependencies is tedious. Managing updates later is even worse.
So, I'm building a toolkit that allows to keep things simple for the end user. Run Ollama and Open WebUI configured to work together: `harbor up ollama webui`. Don't like Ollama? Then `harbor up llamacpp webui`. There are 17 backends, 14 frontends and 50+ different satellite projects, config profiles that can be imported from a URL, tunnels, and a helper desktop app.
https://github.com/av/harbor?tab=readme-ov-file#what-can-har...