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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 jasonkester »

coldcity_again wrote: post #702
jasonkester wrote: post #565

I'm working on a oldskool video game: https://valtima4.com/ It's the Survival Crafting RPG you would have played on your Apple II back in the 80's. You can think of it as Valheim's gameplay crammed into the tile-based ui of the old Ultima games. It has a procedurally-generated open world with towns and NPCs to talk to, all the resource gathering, mining, crafting stuff you'd expect in a modern survival game, and some…

Looks really cool, I'll try it later. Just wanted to let you know that for me, on FF and Chrome, your blog is rendering rgba(235, 235, 235, 0.64) text on white BG, and I'd really like to be able to read it. Edit: Also immediately reminds me a bit of UnReal World[1], in a good way [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnReal_World

Thanks!

And thanks for the rgba value. It looks like a vestigal remnant of a dark mode theme that got pulled along over the years. A fix is working its way out to the server now.

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

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Post by rowanajmarshall »

I've been practicing with Claude Code and creating a webapp I wished exists every time I've moved house - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk

I've spent a lot of time combing through Rightmove and Zoopla getting an idea of housing costs in different areas, now I can do it in seconds.

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

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Post by RunSet »

mnurzia wrote: post #475
tjwebbnorfolk wrote: post #459

I've spent the past ~year compiling a US nationwide land parcel dataset. I posted it to kaggle a few days ago: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-laye... . I'm around 99% coverage of the US. Learned a lot about land records and GIS along the way.

This is really cool. What do you think the remaining ~1% is?

The area inside the circles described by cloverleaf interchanges. ;)

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

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Post by esperent »

wbazant wrote: post #714

Still working on Falling Fruit in my spare time! I've packaged the PWA into a mobile app using Capacitor, seems to work well on Android, would be great if someone helped me with iOS (mostly permissions for things) as I have no devices for it.

There's lots of things with that name, it's unclear which one is yours.

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

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Post by kili1 »

I’ve been vibe coding a multimodal detection tool for AI media (image, video, and audio). It’s a rough prototype right now, but the core functionality is live.

Please give it a test run! I'm looking for constructive criticism on how to improve the detection thresholds and user experience.

http://isitaiornotnow.com/

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

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Post by sbondaryev »

arter45 wrote: post #241
sbondaryev wrote: post #36

I'm working on interactive explorations of algorithms and machine learning. Small, visual, hands-on demos that help build intuition by letting people tweak code/parameters and see how things behave in real time.

Nice! Is it a website, an app, a Jupyter notebook,...?

It's a website https://sbondaryev.dev/

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

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Post by KaugaKauga »

For the last months we have been working on a new Talent Intelligence / ATS tool.

The goal is to build an instant, feature rich but simple system.

We’re taking a local-first approach with electric as a sync engine. All interactions against our own apis are instant with optimistic updates. Making the app feel more like a native app rather than the typical web app.

Taking this approach has lead to some interesting challenges, both in technical and product areas. Some features requires third party roundtrips (summaries, labelling, embedding etc..) which breaks the "instant" system. We’re experimenting with ways to design those flows so the system still feels fast. Currently we only have one "loading" request in the entire system.

Having all data available on the client has also lead to some neat benefits. No need to compose or build your typical GET endpoints in the API. You just query the client DB directly!

If you have experience with any of: go, ts, react, local-first or early stage companies and want to be a part of the team building this, feel free to reach out (info in bio)

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