Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by thecopy » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 2:49 PM UTC

Building Gatana, a platform for securely connecting an organizations agents to their services, with very flexible credential management and federated IDP trust.

Currently my mini-projects includes:

* 0% USA dependency, aim is 100% EU. Currently still using AWS SES for email-sending and GCP KMS for customer data key encryption for envelope encryption.

* Tool output compression, inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193064 Added semantic search on top of this using a local model running on Hetzner. Next phase is making the entire chain envelop encrypted.

* "Firewall" for tool calls

* AI Sandboxes ("OpenClaw but secure") with the credential integration mentiond above

https://www.gatana.ai/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by vstuart » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

In my personal research I investigate Wealth, power, and influence: Issues and solutions.

https://persagen.org/wpi/

I am fundamentally interested in ontology, relationships, and epistemology. I map ontological placement of entities as a foundational mapping of wealth, power, influence etc.

The current version (in pdf form) is 688 pp -- a dated (Nov 2025; 493 pp.) online version can be found online at

https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/wpi-ontology.pdf

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by hju22_-3 » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

nhatcher wrote: post #419

Well, I just jumped full time on IronCalc[1] a fully open source, light and fast spreadsheet engine designed and build from the ground up. I have been working on it as side project for over two years and now, with funding from the EU for the next 2.5 years, I hope I can make of it a real product for everyone to use that can compete with the likes of Excel and Googl;e Sheets. I can oly say, I am overly, off the Moon e…

Oh, neat. Didn't expect to see IronCalc here for some reason, have been considering it for a side-project. Thanks for the hard work. :)

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by Zigurd » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

I'm making alternative client software for Bluesky. In part because I think the default client is a bit messy and embodies a few legacy UX decisions that clean sheet implementation could improve upon.

I have a bigger idea, too: I have a theory that a lot of enterprise group productivity software is really a species of social media. ATProto is an interesting basis for software that organizes workflows that incorporate agents.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by brunohaid » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 2:58 PM UTC

Biodiversity & climate platform that takes care of your plants.

Online part mostly done at https://www.meso.cloud/plants/, currently building glass grow box and light prototypes that will be driven by it.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by lucas_the_human » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

Starting to work on a mobile app that gamifies exposure therapy. Helps you progress every day. No demo yet but hopefully soon :)

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by radihuq » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

During the day I run Facebook ads for an apparel brand. On nights & weekends I'm trying to automate my job: https://www.staticads.ai/ :)

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by agilek » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

On a side, I am building OS player in React for museums and other cultural institutions: https://audioguidekit.org/ – released the very first version just a month ago.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by martydill » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

My fun but ridiculous project is reverse engineering as much of Wizardry VI as I can: https://github.com/martydill/Wizardry-6-reverse-engineering

This is the type of project that I never would have started in the first place if not for LLMs.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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Post by mkovach » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC

This year, I decided to start opening up the tarball of random utilities that's been accumulating on my machine for years: stuff42.tar.gz.

The first thing I cleaned up was TCL-Edit https://gitlab.com/siddfinch/tcl-editor>, a small Tcl/Tk text editor I wrote a long time ago. After seeing the Rust clone of Microsoft EDIT, I realized the obvious next step was to build a Tcl/Tk clone of the Rust clone of Microsoft Edit. Recursion shouldn't be limited to code.

I also built a tiny URL system in Perl https://gitlab.com/siddfinch/perl-tiny-url>, meant to run locally. The idea is simple: short URLs for internal/VPN resources per client. I usually spin up a small daemon (or container) per client and get a dashboard of links I use frequently or recently.

Security is intentionally minimal since it's local, which conveniently lets me ignore authentication and other responsible behavior.

Goal for the year: Continue to open stuff42.tar.gz, pick something, clean it up just enough, and release it, and not have it by the end of the year.

Might even choose a language that might even be described as "modern."