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

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

#71
Microplastics are bad. People are concerned that there are microplastics in your balls! And that this could epigenetically affect downstream generations. I want to test that theory with a real human, not an animal model.

My plan: collect my own sperm samples over time and do whole DNA preps + basic body metrics. Sperm regenerates approximately every 10w, so planning time series over 10w. Next, inject myself to ~10x the average amount of microplastics, directly into the bloodstream. Continue with the sperm collection, DNA preps, and basic body metrics. Nanopore sequence, and see if there actually ARE any epigenetic changes. Eventually I'll go back down to baseline - are there any lasting changes?

Of course, this is an N=1 experiment, but rather than a metastudy I'm directly changing one variable, so I think it is valuable. We should have more people doing controlled experiments on themselves for the sake of all of society - and as a biologist, I actually have the capacity to design the experiments and scientifically interpret the results. In a way, it's part of civic duty :)

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

#72
I built meepr recently. It's basically twitter v1, but the hashtag system is gated, it builds a knowledge base of what you talk about and how deeply, and then enables you to post into/create hashtags, think of twitter meets reddit meets quora? Feel free to follow me and share with your friends. No recommendations, no algorithmic timeline, no ads etc. Just regular old micro-blogging with a small twist. https://meepr.co/je

The other thing I built but am less interested in personally just through should exist, is something like MoltBook but for more formal topics like the sciences. -> https://ideas.gd/

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

#73
post #8

https://kavla.dev/ It's an infinite canvas that runs SQL. I've been working with data my entire career. I feel like we need to alt+tab so much. What if we just put it all on a canvas? Currently very WIP, but there's a simple titanic demo available! Built with tldraw and duckdb wasm, running on cloudflare durable objects

Look at count.co for a Figma-like approach to databases.

We were using it at work (transitioning to Metabase); it's great for exploring and debugging and prototyping but it ends up too much of a tangled spaghetti mess for anything long-term. Would not recommend for user-/other-company-departments-facing reports or dashboards.

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

#77
An exi decoder/encoder (goal is to have modes for spec conform and interop, which right now doesn't seem to be the same thing). Afterwards I also want to try to use it to encode huge XML datasets in precomp mode with good encoder (maybe ztsd). Should be pretty useful for large repetitive datasets. I also want to build a tool to visualize XML to exi de/encoding in the browser.

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

#79
Remixify[1]. What I mean to do is target DJs and people who love to own their playlist curating process. We aim to help people find remixes to their favourite Spotify playlists. Alt versions, club mixes, remixed versions, whatever. Come build your new experience.

[1] https://remixify.xyz

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