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

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

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Post by azdle »

OccamsMirror wrote: post #583
alabhyajindal wrote: post #560

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Very very cool! Just signed up. Reminds me of Val Town which I'm a big fan of. Did you choose Lua because you love using it, or for some other pragmatic reasons? Do you think a service like yours with support for many variety of languages a good idea? Not in order to meet user demand but purely because I think it would "just" require running the program on the server using a different interpreter/compiler, assuming c…

Even better it could just support WASM and be language agnostic.

It's actually already using wasmtime as one layer in its sandbox. I just think that trying to support other languages, especially in a fully language agnostic way, would make things like documentation far more complex than I could handle and make the service complex enough that the only people who could understand it would be the type of person who don't really need a service like this in the first place.

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

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Post by ethbr1 »

pseudohadamard wrote: post #657
CodinM wrote: post #307

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Thank you. I have thrown printers out the literal window.

Ah, so you're Russian then. If you were American you'd have shot them.

> If you were American you'd have shot them.

Archaeological evidence strongly suggests earlier Americans preferred hands, feet, and occasional repurposed sporting equipment.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pD2xBXm4y70

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

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Post by digitalsushi »

ive got a desk full of octo coupler relays and an arduino learning kit and i'm using AI to goad me into making a cascading small motor starter thing with an air particulate sensor that's taking 180 days to show up from China, to automatically control my 6 small air scrubbers in my wood shop since i'm allergic to just about everything in there but love the hobby

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

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Post by preuceian »

retrocog wrote: post #669
badestrand wrote: post #651

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What does it exactly mean, digital community infrastructure?

Thank you for asking :) Here's some of the features it includes: News & Media: Articles, Newspaper Archive, Videos, Photo Albums, Breaking News, Weather, Aggregated RSS Feeds, Local Radio Stations Community: Events Calendar, Local Forums, Polls, Local Connections, Private encrypted messages. Print-to-Digital Ad Integration: Sales tools for small publisher ad sales teams. Ad project workflow including designers. QR Co…

Would it be possible to see what you’re currently building? I’m very interested.

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

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Post by gwbas1c »

I'm trying to learn CAD and 3d printing.

For the moment, I'm trying to design a shell for my car key fob. I keep leaning on the buttons and setting the car alarm off; I also never need to touch the buttons on the fob, because the car has a button for me to lock / unlock it as long as the fob is in my pocket.

I'm sure it's a trivial project for someone who has experience with CAD and 3d printing; but for me, where my hobbies in my adult life involved either programming or woodworking, it's a new adventure.

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I tried using Microcad, which was on HN about a month ago. I really like it, but it's still too early for me to design what I need to design.

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

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Post by clintmcmahon »

A React Native mobile coffee shop map of all coffee shops in New York City. It's integrated with Google Places so I can return summaries of each coffee shops via Googles AI summary feature.

The next step is going to explore building a local LLM into the application itself to then skip over the entire Google part. I want to implement some question/answer features that I THINK could be solved with a local LLM integration. But for now it's just a quick app to help you find coffee.

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyc-coffee-map/id6755573635

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parkasoftw...

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