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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#712
I'm making an HID translation dongle.

In programming mode, its a flash drive you can put LUA scripts on.

In run mode, you can select a lua script to run. Lua scripts can take HID input and produce HID output.

All open source, hardware and software: https://github.com/cedarhacks/ReMapper

It can do things like keyboard -> joystick mapping, key logging, macros, mouse wiggling etc etc

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#713
Tired of having my notes spread everywhere, on uncomfortable software, I'm writing my own Notational Velocity desktop app clone in Godot:

https://share.combo.cc/-Z7hBzNbaCc

(work in progress prototype, design is not final)

Intentionally made simple and centered around plain text files and editing speed. I've spent a week on the prototype, now it's good enough to dog-food. Would like to eventually distribute it as a multi-platform app.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#717
I created a small / 20 line Jupyter notebook that uses the Nthesis api which shapes, tags, and makes the data searchable, chattable and allows you to visualize relationships / data clusters (yep lots of games this month!). https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-working-on

I've always loved the "What are you working on" post. So many niche and interesting projects!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#718
I am working on my own Lisp-like language (cliche, I know). Goal is a hybrid. Syntax is a bit more Clojure inspired, but want to emulate the interactivity of SBCL once I am done.

And the other goal is minimal dependencies. The only bootstrapping stage is a very very small core in Common Lisp + FSet but could also be replaced with other languages, and then using that subset to bootstrap the rest.

There is absolutely zero claim to be highly performant, it is more of an educational experience.

All of it is done via literate programming in org-mode. So far it's working pretty well, but will have to see how that approach works if the project grows.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#719
I've been exploring getting some deeper experience with Claude Code (my org only allows Copilot) and exploring vibe coding by using CC to design a functional programming language that transpiles to JS and build out a full language specification and the tooling to go along with it. I haven't pushed anything to Github yet but it's been very educational, and also a little terrifying to see how easy it is now to produce tens of thousands of lines of code that you totally don't understand.
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