A fun quiz for identifying AI content on Wikipedia. Decided a game format is more interesting than markdown.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#702In my spare time https://bookclub.cloud.
It’s a tool that leverages your drm free ebooks to help manage your book clubs. The epub file offers more rich info such as:
- word counts per reading
- chapter selection
- the ability to highlight sections and share
- ai summarization and spoiler free discussion about the contents of a given reading
I use it for my own book club right now. I doubt I’ll be able to monetize the app due to the need for drm free epubs which is a pretty high barrier for entry to most non-technical users.
My long term plans would be to have an agent help readers learn hand in hand while reading. I’d like to have the agent facilitate deeper analysis by prompting the users and clubs with questions that encourage more critical analysis of each section. I’ve been building all the infrastructure for running the club so that’s the next more interesting step I haven’t explored yet.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#703I've been building several things lately in my spare time:
- After Actions (https://www.afteractions.net/) - The company I work for pays for retrospective software, and I figured I could make my own. So I did! Good for agile retrospective ceremonies
- Data Atlas (https://www.data-atlas.net/) - Right now, it's a basic JSON Schema form builder with a UI on top, but I intend to expand it and improve it to be more than that this year.
I've been working on a BuddhaBoard-like app and a few other projects, but nothing I'm prepared to share right now. Maybe next month :D
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#704https://github.com/debba/tabularis
I’m working on tabularis, a lightweight desktop database management tool designed for developers. It provides a modern interface for managing MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases through a native desktop application. Built using Tauri v2 (Rust backend) and React 19 (TypeScript frontend), it offers native performance while maintaining the flexibility of web technologies.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#705https://concludia.org/ - I've mentioned it here before, it's a site to help people reason through and understand arguments together. No real business purpose for it yet, it's more an idea I've had for years and have been wanting to see it through to something actually usable. You can graphically explore arguments, track their logical sufficiency/necessity, and make counterpoints. It's different than other types of ar…
I’ve had a concept like this in the back of my mind for years. Happy to see someone executing it so well.
For me, it started when I spent a year and a half reading and digesting books for and against young earth creationism, then eventually for Christianity itself (its historical truth claims). It struck me that the books were just a serialization of some knowledge structure that existed in the authors’ heads, and by reading I was trying to recreate that structure in my own head. And that’s a super inefficient way to go about this business. So there must be a shortcut, some more powerful intermediate representation than just text (text is too general and powerful, and you can’t compute over it… until now with LLMs?)
That graph felt a lot like code to me: there’s no unique representation of knowledge in a graph, but there are some that are much more useful than others; building a well-factored graph takes time and taste; graphs are composable and reusable in a way that feels like it could help you discover layers of abstraction in your arguments.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#706back working on my lighting desk, after a couple of years of hating it because the communications bus between the many different modules was flakey and so the whole thing wasn't fun to use. I bit the bullet last year and re-implemented everything with CAN-bus communications and it's actually fun to use now.
Current work has been improving boot time. Was nearly two minutes because of one board, and that's a long time for the lights to be out if you have to reboot during a show. I'd wanted to use buildroot to get a custom kernel that should boot much more quickly, but the buildroot learning curve was steep for me, particularly as I've no expectation of ever needing the knowledge again.
Independently but concurrently I decided I really ought to understand what all this AI stuff was about, for fear of getting left behind. That coincided with the release of opus 4.5, and holy heck has it made a difference! With a little guidance from me Claude got the buildroot environment working and the boot time down to less than 10 seconds. I've been _really_ impressed. I've had Claude write a few boring utilities that I could easily have done but Claude managed much faster and with less boredom on my part. Fortunately for my AI revolution I think I'm a better Business Analyst/writer than I am a coder, so it fits with my temperament.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#707EACL: Enterprise Access ControL is a situated ReBAC Authorization system based on SpiceDB, built in Clojure and backed by Datomic – https://github.com/theronic/eacl
'Situated' here means that your permission schema & permission data live with your data, which has a number of benefits:
- one less network hop, so can be faster than Spice for typical workloads,
- one less distributed consistency & syncing problem,
- one less component to run in prod with full consistency,
- potential to implement ZedToken / Zookies via Datomix txid, and
- easy to test new schemas with in-memory Datomic.
EACL is plenty fast without a cache since horizontally-scalable Datomic Peers already cache datoms aggressively, but there is another 10-100x improvement in the pipeline. EACL is especially suitable to real-time multiplayer apps built in frameworks like Electric Clojure.
IMHO, EACL is currently the best-in-class authorization library in the Clojure ecosystem and is improving every week. ReBAC subsumes both ABAC & RBAC. I recently applied for Clojurists Together funding to improve cursors for intermediate resource traversal, which is the primary perf. bottleneck.
EACL was not "vibecoded" as all tests were written by me and all code is human-reviewed, but EACL would not be possible for a single engineer to build mainly in his spare time without AI assistance.
Docs with rationale: https://eacl.dev/
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#708We're working on the WASTE p2p code base.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/blackbeltwaste/
Thinking about adding video-calling after successful integration of Voice Conferencing.
Its an old p2p program, but recently been downloaded 15,000 times and counting.
Great fun and challenging too !!!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#709A podcast on the history of the “Majority World” - that is Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, Latin America and the indigenous people around the world - from a decolonisation point of view.
I just published the first episodes today and have zero listeners or subscribers, so it can only grow from here!
https://historyofthemajorityworld.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qJh2jNwMvWcLP1J1EMXxr?si=dcc7...
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/rw/podcast/history-of-the-majorit...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#710I’m building lightweight-css to teach kids aged 8+ the fundamentals of programming using the web and JavaScript.
Link to Github: https://github.com/joshuamabina/lightweight-css