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

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

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Post by ThreatSystems »

BitsAndObjects wrote: post #38
ThreatSystems wrote: post #27

I'm building a training platform for cyber security and secure development practices. Mainly to address the junior to mid engineer gaps of "depth" across general cyber security and software engineering skills. I've encountered quite a few folk who have surface level knowledge but when having to problem solve production ready problems are blocked quite quickly, it's depth of knowledge which is missing. If anyone is in…

If you haven’t already, take a gander at the UK NCSC’s CyberEssentials materials / training.

Thanks! I actually wrote my master thesis surrounding cyber resilience, and the same week of submission they released their Cyber Action Toolkit (a precursor to Cyber Essentials). I was able to provide them some feedback which has since been incorporated so believe I am closely aligned to their recommendations!

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

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Post by rixed »

A new visualisation tool for large networks. I've actually been working on this for a while and had planned to show a prototype tomorrow, just a bit late for this "Ask HN". Will update this thread with a link, hoping to get some advices and ideas if some people are still reading this by then.

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

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Post by rixed »

coffeecoders wrote: post #21

I’ve been vibe-coding replacements for the tools I actually use every day. So far: a Notepad, a REST client, a snipping tool, a local gallery and lightweight notes for iPhone. The motivation isn't novelty. It's control. I don't need ads, onboarding flows and popups, AI sidebars, bloated menus, unnecessary network calls , etc. A notepad should never touch the network. A REST client shouldn’t ship analytics or auto upd…

Starting from scratch or did you try to start from some open-source tools? I'm sure there are dozens of note-taking apps on f-droid for instance.

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

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Post by tikotus »

DylanSp wrote: post #20

I've been learning the basics of using Z3 by creating a solver for the daily puzzle game Clues By Sam (very fun game; https://cluesbysam.com/ ). Repo is https://github.com/DylanSp/clues-by-sam-solver . It uses Playwright to read clues and submit guesses; I've got it working for all 50 puzzles in puzzle pack 1.

Congrats on getting it to that point! Exciting to see how others approach this, as there's also a solver as part of the puzzle setting process ensuring all valid deductions are allowed.

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

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Post by logankeenan »

Software that connects your own personal devices to form a p2p mesh network and also connects your friends personal mesh network. On top of that technology, the ability to chat, share media, or any other basic computing done between friends. Data is synced between devices. The goal is to make the underlying tech mostly invisible to the users. They pair devices and start doing standard software things.

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

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Post by civancza »

I’m working on https://querypanel.io, a server-side SDK that lets your customers chat with their own data, designed with a zero‑trust architecture you can embed directly into your web app. It automatically scans your database schema, gives you a UI to further “train” and refine behaviors, and only stores schema metadata and no credentials or row‑level data. We’ve already reached strong query accuracy on a real client’s ClickHouse setup and are now onboarding more customers.

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

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Post by grigio »

BitsAndObjects wrote: post #36

A prototype of an auto-following autocue/teleprompter. Uses local-AI-only. It’s a web app but not using in-browser transcribe. Ive found it to be way better for recording YouTube videos direct to-camera than the existing free apps which just scroll at a fixed speed. Open source at: https://github.com/ednutting/autocue Python server does the recording, transcription using Vosk (or choice of other models), and an algor…

Wow this is super cool, I had a similar idea in the past but i didn't know where to start to wire everything together. Thanks

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

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Post by irvingprime »

I'm using Claude AI to build an experimental programming language I call Graphoid. (Built for dealing with graphs). It's early days and I don't know how worthwhile it is but I'm having fun.

repo: https://github.com/xvandervort/graphoid lab notes: https://www.patreon.com/cw/aiconfessions

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

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Post by RichardChu »

cpeterso wrote: post #62
RichardChu wrote: post #39

I'm building a new email client called Fluxmail: https://fluxmail.ai You can connect a bunch of Gmail accounts with it and see all your emails together in one place. It also has some features to better organize your emails and automatically categorize them, as well as some AI features for helping you to draft emails. It's in early access now, would love feedback from anyone interested in checking it out!

The website doesn’t scroll in Safari on iOS.

It should be fixed now. Thanks for flagging!
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