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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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Post by niekmaas »

emanuer wrote: post #633
niekmaas wrote: post #591

As a pathologist and neuro-oncology researcher, to save myself time trying to keep up with scientific literature, I'm working on https://www.summarized.science/ . Based topics of interest (suggestions are more than welcome), the tool queries the scientific literature for each month. Then, by quering some LLMs, it extracts themes and summaries. The tool already saves me time in my day to day life, but still needs a lo…

Subscribed! As a layperson, I find this an approachable way to get an overview of a topic. However, I am only interested in a few select topics, and I was not able to find a way to subscribe to specific ones, such as #insulin-resistance (topic request ;-) Another thing I really value in science YouTubers (e.g., youtube.com/@Physionic) is the deep dives they offer into the research—highlighting conflicting results, pa…

No problem, and thanks for the request! #insulin-resistance is now added: https://www.summarized.science/topics/insulin-resistance/ . I ran it for each month of 2025, if you want to go back further just let me know.

Adding personalised highlights of topics of interest into the monthly emails is my top priority for 2026. Won't be too complicated, just have to set up the right API back-and-forths etc.

Good point about deep dives. I could do that for the topics I'm an expert in, however, by definition, I think this requires domain expertise and is therefore not scalable nor to be automated easily. I'm not sure if this fits the scope of the current project as I want people to find the papers of interest, read a quick summarization and then encourage them to read a selection of papers themselves.

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

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Post by trackspike »

I'm still working on an open-source containerized agent framework called Capsule Agents. Some solid progress this month, getting an early version of the docs site https://capsuleagents.com live. I'm training for a marathon and its able to send a discord message every morning with the workout on my schedule and the "why" behind it.

Here's the elevator pitch for the framework:

Its built around 3 key ideas I've dealt with inside the agent ecosystem

1. Agents become far more capable when they have access to a CLI and can create or reuse scripts, instead of relying solely on MCP.

2. Multi-agent setups are often overvalued as “expert personas” but they’re incredibly effective for managing context, A2A is the future.

3. Agents are useful for more than just writing code. They should be easy for non-engineers to create and capable of providing value in many domains beyond software development.

If that sounds interesting take a look! https://github.com/brycewcole/capsule-agents

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

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Post by niekmaas »

pmdr wrote: post #665
niekmaas wrote: post #591

As a pathologist and neuro-oncology researcher, to save myself time trying to keep up with scientific literature, I'm working on https://www.summarized.science/ . Based topics of interest (suggestions are more than welcome), the tool queries the scientific literature for each month. Then, by quering some LLMs, it extracts themes and summaries. The tool already saves me time in my day to day life, but still needs a lo…

Nice! I'm a gastroenterologist and I've been thinking about doing something very similar for some time now.

Well, you're absolutely the target audience. As you can see my focus so far is mostly on (neuro) oncology as this is my domain of interest/work. Let me know if you have any topic requests or have any ideas for additional features to make our lives as medical specialists/researchers easier. Contact form is on the site or just email whatever to the domain (catch-all doing the work).

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

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Post by ziyasal »

I've been building a platform that lets you describe a multiplayer game idea in natural language and generates full-stack code for it—frontend (PixiJS, Phaser, Babylon, or Three.js) plus backend (KaosEngine real-time multiplayer framework). You can iterate via chat, preview live, sync to GitHub, and deploy.

Stack overview:

Networking — Rust-powered WebSocket + RUDP with fast ring buffers — https://github.com/bugthesystem/Kaos

Game Server Framework — Rust-powered Matchmaking, Lua runtime with hot-reload, leaderboards, storage, chat, rooms, social features (friends, etc.)

SDKs — Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript, Unity, Godot, Defold

Game Studio — AI-assisted builder (similar to Lovable.dev), Monaco-based Lua/HTML IDE, live preview with hot-reload for both backend and frontend, one-click deploy

Early results are promising. Would love feedback from folks who've worked on similar problems or have thoughts on the approach.

Planning to spin up a Discord and public playground in a week or two for anyone interested in early access.

– Sia

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

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Post by potamic »

pedropaulovc wrote: post #351

CodjiFlo[1,2] - a code review tool inspired by Microsoft's CodeFlow, used by ~40,000 developers. It is especially tailored to power users of pull requests to improve contextual understanding and ease of code review and collaboration. [1] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/codjiflo/ [2] https://codjiflo.vza.net

No way to see without signing in with github? The sign-in also appears to be broken.

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

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Post by aljt »

I've been building a reader app designed for language learning. It's a place where you can read and listen to plenty of content in your target language (currently English, Spanish, French, German and Italian) and also comes with plenty of smart bits for helping to teach you and test your progress.

I’m getting ready for the official launch, but while I work on expanding the library beyond the current collection of Aesop’s Fables, I’m opening up a beta.

If you’re on iOS and wouldn't mind helping me test it out, I’d love it if you had a look: https://verva.ai/en/

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

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Post by spydum »

Fascinating to see an outsized increase in "game" development compare to a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154065 (I'm sure someone could throw this into some llm analysis and prove it out, but a quick and dirty count of "game" between then two shows a 2x increase on roughly the same comment count).

I suspect has to do with having agentic coding assist for folks who would otherwise not have the means to develop a game, but now do.

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

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Post by bonniesimon »

I'm building Muro (getmuro.com). Connect your calendar (multiple calendars) and then see muro find you focus times.

As an engineer, it is hard to know when you can put your head down and work when you have multiple meetings. This helps me cure that overhead of planning my morning.

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

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Post by tetridev »

I’m working on three small micro SaaS projects focused on personal finance, shared expenses and vehicle costs, all built with React + Vite on the frontend and Firebase on the backend.

- https://din.tetri.net – a personal finance manager to log income and expenses and see everything in simple charts, making it easier to understand where the money goes and to follow each month more clearly.

- https://rax.tetri.net – a group expense splitter for trips, dinners and events, where you can add shared expenses and it shows exactly how much each participant owes to each person, avoiding manual settlements.

- https://vex.tetri.net – a vehicle expense tracker to keep track of fuel, maintenance, taxes and other car-related costs, giving a more realistic view of the total cost of owning a vehicle.[2]

Right now I’m still exploring which pricing model makes more sense (monthly or yearly subscription, free plan with limits, etc.), so there are no prices defined yet.

I’d really appreciate feedback from the community on:

- Whether each product’s value proposition is clear.

- Which features you consider essential in each case.

- Pricing models that you think would work best for these niches.

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