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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)

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Post by koeng »

I’m smelting ore!

I got into creating my own rings, and I’d really like to create one with ore I harvest myself. Gold is too hard and silver can be kinda dangerous, but malachite is pretty safe and I can just drive to Copperopolis to pick some up.

Basically: smelt the malachite with flux and charcoal to get pure copper, flow that into an ingot mold, hammer it into shape. Then I’ll have my own ring, with metal I collected with my own hands

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

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Post by frankdenbow »

mstaoru wrote: post #25

[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…

this sounds awesome. have any videos of it?

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

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Post by koeng »

Another thing I’m working on: homemade linen.

Right now I just germinated a 4x8 bed with flax for fiber. The plan is to grow it for 100 days or so and then harvest, dry, ret, dry, and spin. I need a lot more to do anything serious, but I think it’d be awesome to have a scarf that I made with linen I grew and harvested myself

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

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Post by williamtrask »

A non-profit to deconcentrate power over AI through better infrastructure for external auditing/oversight, and better infrastructure for local/federated inference/training https://openmined.org/

Also, we're hiring engineers and PMs (the eng position is about to be up). https://openmined.org/careers/#brxe-zgsziy

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

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Post by 0gs »

i am working on an offline weights harness for non-technical people, writers mainly. it's designed to work forever but also be adaptable as more weights get released etc.

it enforces very few paradigms, runs in the browser, and allows users to view and edit agent config files within the UI.

it's kind of a nightmare to try to figure out how to do this appropriately, but it's an interesting challenge and i have seen very few (~0?) projects with an approach like this ...

all the offline harnesses are optimized towards coding, vs. general text manipulation aka "writing."

hoping to publish v0.1.0 by the end of may.

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

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Post by jjcm »

I'm working on a diffusion-powered UI design tool. My short term goal is to make AI-designed UI not look like Tailwind. My long-term goal is to be Figma, but powered by diffusion.

https://diffui.ai

I quit Figma about 4mo ago to start working on this, and the gpt-image-2 drop really legitized the bet. I recently release Brands for diffui, which let you establish a design system and consistently generate with it. I made a Brand out of the recent UFO files release, which allow for some really fun designs:

https://diffui.ai/brand/2ff1b00a-d698-43ea-a42e-7c4a2e670c04 (no account required to generate with this if you want to try)

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