https://github.com/vipulawl/imageguard - A lightweight Python library that checks whether an image is good enough to feed into an AI pipeline
No image-processing knowledge required. Pass in a path. Get back a decision.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
#722I’m working on Descartes[^0]. First to help diagnose what’s wrong with a machine.
I’ve started implementing actual background monitoring of the system, and next will be letting an agent build its own layers of tailor-made deterministic rules and statistical models, to "learn" what the system’s normal behaviour is and only "wake up" the agent when something unusual is going on. Either to update its rules and models, or alert the user.
Like the ship’s AI at the beginning of Absolution Gap. Next will be enabling it to serve as the interface for the system. An ops "point of contact" for both the user and their agents for the machine / fleet of machines it’s in charge of.
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I’m also working on third thoughts[^1], a tool that analyses local agents logs to find patterns and behaviours, identify what works, what doesn’t, how they evolve over time, using deterministic and statistical methodologies and techniques from multiple domains (including, to my surprise, genetics and psychology / sociology), with an agent layer that interprets the results.
I’d like to add a "federative" layer where people can contribute the results, patterns, and findings, without leaking their logs or personal / private data, so that we can all better learn how to identify failure modes, predict them, and see what works and what doesn’t.
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I’m also having Claude & Codex revive Jasonette[^2], which died off and was turned into some weird paid unrelated thing by those who picked it up. I’d been meaning to but never took the time. But now with agents…
All rebuilt in Swift / SwiftUI on the iOS side, and Kotlin on the Android side. Some features are still missing, but it works quite well! [^3].
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Oh, and Boucle[^4] is doing its thing on its own. No idea how it got to 100 GitHub star. My "autonomous dog-fooding expensive pet" is apparently more "internet successful" than I’ve ever been.
And quite a few other side projects.
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[0]: https://github.com/lightless-labs/descartes
[1]: https://github.com/lightless-labs/third-thoughts
[2]: https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
#723An offline-first app to make life a little easier for someone I love and her caregiver. She's been diagnosed with stage 3 pancreatic cancer and food has been a bit of a nightmare for her. Her partner is also not very skilled with cooking, so helping them make this easier is my gift to them. Not a medical device, just a food logging and logistics tool. The privacy aspect of this is very important, so
I am so careful not to let anything not heavily encrypted touch a network request. Sync is opt-in, offline is default. This is very challenging for me, but I want to help her the best way I know: building software for humans.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
#724Basketball highlights and stats app
Uses computer vision to create clips
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
#725I'm building MCPForge.
The original idea came from repeatedly seeing the same workflow whenever someone wanted to expose an existing API to Claude, Cursor, or another agent:
* Parse an OpenAPI spec * Generate tools * Handle auth * Deploy an MCP server * Maintain it forever
I initially thought tool generation was the hard part.
After talking with developers, it seems the bigger challenges are authentication, permissions, endpoint selection, and safely exposing production APIs to AI agents.
MCPForge takes an OpenAPI spec or Postman collection and creates a hosted MCP endpoint. Recently, I've been spending more time on auth injection, tool permissions, and preventing destructive endpoints from being exposed by default than on generation itself.
Still very early (launched this week), and I'm mostly looking for feedback from people using MCP in production.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
#726A few things: - https://www.ironvolume.com/ for generating crossfit, hyrox and athx workouts and warm ups, with a few posts on topics I've found really helpful to train around. - https://pokerchallenges.com/ for practicing the maths behind different aspects of playing texas hold'em poker, trialling it at the moment so can give anyone a free membership if they want to get to grips with it - https://typst.app/universe/…
Tried daily puzzles on pokerchallenges.com ; 2nd one is "jam or fold" 5bb deep, from the big blind. But no information on what other players do, and we are last to act on this spot, so the question doesn't make sense.
Edit : another one didn't make sense, it asked for my equity with A5o on KK7 or something, but I have no information on opponent's hand or range or betting pattern. Apparently it assumed villain had any2, but pretty much nobody has any 2 here.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
#728I’m working on an open cave registry for the Western Tatra Mountains.
The Tatras may look solid from the outside, but our mountains are hollow inside - and there is still a lot to discover. The project brings together cave survey data, entrances, maps, and terrain models into one open spatial dataset.
3D model: https://dlubom.github.io/Jaskiniowy-Kataster-Tatr-Zachodnich...
Repo: https://github.com/dlubom/Jaskiniowy-Kataster-Tatr-Zachodnic...
Feedback is welcome, especially from people interested in cave mapping, GIS, open scientific datasets, or underground worlds in general.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
#729Still working on my book, which is about how to think about code, and how to turn these models into code:
https://functionalprogrammingstrategies.com/
I'm currently writing up what is the last major chapter, which introduces capability-passing as an architecture, and builds a simple TUI framework using it. Fun stuff!
I'm a few months away from launching the book, but the early feedback is very positive. I find writing enjoyable but also, damn, do I need to get this book finished. :-)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
#730WebCLI - screenshots are a dead end. MCP is too verbose and clunky. Agents native language is text. Web CLI is just a Unix-y CLI that pipes/translates the web to text. Run any task on a web browser, but don't do it yourself (only the parts you have to - MFA, Login, CAPTCHA, whatever). An agent + WebCLI does anything you throw at it.
web go news.ycombinator.com
cat reply.txt | web say -
web find add comment
web do 44