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

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

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I've been working for the past few years building robust, locally owned digital community infrastructure for rural areas. The pilot is being released this month in partnership with the newspaper of record and local radio stations that cover four rural counties in the New York Catskills. It's a modular platform that wraps current workflows, rather than replace them. If the pilot shows promise, we'll move forward with…

What does it exactly mean, digital community infrastructure?

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

#652

I have been building SiteIQ : comprehensive website analysis and security testing platform featuring security testing, SEO analysis, and LLM security testing. https://github.com/sastrophy/siteiq I am a student and fascinated by physics and cybersecurity. So to understand more about the field of cybersecurity and web-development, I started this project few months back. Any feedback from all of you will be really helpf…

this looks interesting. I will try to integrate with my code review tool http://github.com/bhuvangupta/codelens ..

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

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2D CAD app in Rust with WGPU.

Why? Because why not? I love CAD.

It's still very much in the early stages because it's just a side project for me, but, it is possible to draw lines and circles, copy or move them, delete, snap, create text, and a couple of other basic stuff.

https://github.com/kristof1345/easycad

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

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Spent about 2 years improving printing and scanning stack of Linux: CUPS, SANE, AirSane, as well as some legacy drivers, and also x86 proprietary driver emulation on ARM with Box86. Even that "modern" printing stack in Linux is 20+ years old, there's still such an unbelievable amount of basic bugs and low-hanging-fruit optimizations, that it's kinda sad. Not to mention that it still maintains ALL its legacy compatibi…

This is awesome, thank you for doing this work; it’s not glamorous but it’s a key feature to making computers productive. I know it’s not a popular opinion here but I think that Windows has two killer features that are always overlooked- the standard print dialog (and all the underlying plumbing), and the standard file dialog (at least until Windows 8). The ability to print and to interact with files, that just works…

Was going to say the same thing, I'm not a big fan of Windows but the printing Just Works. Having read the OPs explanation of why CUPS is the way it is, yeah, now it makes sense.

Maybe CUPS needs a Heartbleed-scale problem to motivate more support.

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

#655

I've been working on https://www.minichessgames.com which I built with my 6 year old (she was the product owner ;). It's a site with a bunch of small puzzles (e.g. imagine a chess board with rocks thrown onto it, then move a single piece to a goal square). Lots of fun building it out. And radioactive pooping knights [1] is _amazing_ if I do say so myself ;). 1. https://www.minichessgames.com/#/play/pooping-knights

Ha yes pooping knights was fun thanks. You have inspired me to do something like this with my son. Cheers.

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

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Aged Care Mate https://AgedCareMate.com.au It’s a modern way to navigate and find home care providers in Australia. We built it after working in the industry and seeing families struggle a lot with navigating the complex aged care system (at a time in their lives which is already very stressful). It’s very early days but it has been very enjoyable to think back on all the issues and pain points we saw in our careers…

PostGIS should be the standard for anything geospatial, such feature packed, combined with Mapbox for frontend.

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

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Spent about 2 years improving printing and scanning stack of Linux: CUPS, SANE, AirSane, as well as some legacy drivers, and also x86 proprietary driver emulation on ARM with Box86. Even that "modern" printing stack in Linux is 20+ years old, there's still such an unbelievable amount of basic bugs and low-hanging-fruit optimizations, that it's kinda sad. Not to mention that it still maintains ALL its legacy compatibi…

Thank you. I have thrown printers out the literal window.

Ah, so you're Russian then. If you were American you'd have shot them.

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

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I'm building KineVision, a sport video analysis app for iOS. Something like Coach's Eye.

I wanted to have a more difficult project and learn more about AV and Liquid Glass. I try not to vibe-code. I keep it 100% free for now, I'm looking for power users and retention. I won't monetise until I feel that this is a helpful tool.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kinevision-video-coaching/id67...

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

#659

I've been consistently pushing updates to my intermittent fasting & mindful eating companion app - https://www.fastpause.app/ - offline first PWA with no tracking. It helped me stay more consistent with IF - added visual indicator of previous fasts in a little calendar widget on the dashboard so every time I open it, I see my streak visually, which has been a great motivator to continue. I also added a BMI calculator…

love that, looks well designed and feature rich.

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

#660

Built a tool that helps me re-organize my furniture on a new apartment layout (had to move a couple of times recently). I wrapped this up a while ago, but sharing because a few friends found it useful. https://furnimapper.pages.dev/

That's so funny, i made the same thing. Looks to function exactly the same.

https://quickfit.dre-west.workers.dev/projects. (click "signin as guest" -- the signup doesn't work so don't worry about that. a friend added it so I could save and access on different computers but we ended up not finishing it)

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