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

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

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Post by w10-1 »

taikon wrote: post #91

https://taiko.taikohub.com - Working on the TAIKO-01, a split concave ergonomic keyboard. I'm an physician who previously had wrist tendinosis and carpal tunnel and made the keyboard for myself. I'm trying to get the keyboard registered as a medical device for treatment of hand/wrist repetitive strain injury. Currently getting design for manufacturing finalized, and waiting on injection mold prototypes. Hoping to lau…

For a competitive split concave keyboard, see Kinesis Advantage 360 keyboards at https://kinesis-ergo.com.

(I use the Advantage II with a trackpad in the middle (i.e., the split would be a problem ergonomically because it forces more movement to use the mouse).)

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

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Post by ucerron1 »

What happens in a world where the world population continues to shrink, where two empires face record high budget deficits, where people are faced with eroding values and hyper-financialization during another Industrial Revolution?

I’ve been diving into a Liquid Labor framework (liquid-labor.com), it’s a departure from traditional labor economics. It moves us away from measuring GDP via human headcounts and toward a National Autonomous Work Index (NAWI) treating machine hours as liquid labor with perfect elasticity of labor.

In this model, robotics isn’t just an efficiency gain; it’s the conversion of energy into a liquid labor reserve that can be deployed with perfect elasticity either as a policy or as a business model Robots as a Service(RaaS.)

I believe the industries of nations that successfully build a reserve of autonomous hours will survive a Great Stagnation. Those who rely on shrinking human labor pools will face a terminal liquidity crisis.

I believe this will lead to greater centralization as no single nation or business will be able to sustain the amount of depreciation ensued. Any honest feedback or thoughts more than welcome. https://www.liquid-labor.com/

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

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Post by bondolo »

I recently retired after 37 years of working in tech so of course I am working on open source.

My retirement treat was to spend three months learning OpenGL and 3D game programming by porting a classic Java RTS game, Tribal Trouble, to more modern OpenGL and Java. I learn much better working with real code and this was a great experience. It was certainly a different experience than it would have been without an LLM teacher, reviewer, helper, assistant. The app was beautifully designed and very cleanly implemented back in Java 1.4 days of 2004 so it has been a joy to modernize it while attempting to preserve the clean design. The OpenGL work and the necessary math was a lot different than what I have been doing for most of my career so it was a lot of fun. I will probably continue tinkering with Tribal Trouble occasionally as I still enjoy playing the game. I want to learn Blender to edit/improve the 3D models. (https://github.com/bondolo/tribaltrouble)

For now I have mostly moved on from gaming and am instead working on improving the accessibility (#a11y) of the Wireshark network protocol capture/analysis tool. There are a lot of blind and low vision IT folks for whom this tool is a job requirement. The current accessibility is unfortunately poor. I've submitted my first PR and am relearning the Wireshark source after last contributing 20 years ago. It's also been 15 years since the last time I did anything with Qt so that has been a refresher as well. I don't enjoy working in C++ but the goal matters so I will suffer through. (https://wireshark.org)

I plan to work on Wireshark for a couple of months at least and then look for something else to contribute to, probably also accessibility related. I have some ideas already about next apps. I'm currently tempted to build an NFC app for iOS in Swift but haven't decided yet. After having built in the last year both Kotlin Compose and TypeScript React apps, none of which I enjoyed very much, I am somewhat curious if Swift and SwiftUI will be more fun.

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

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Post by bluerooibos »

techtalksweekly wrote: post #369

https://techtalksweekly.io/ I've been working on my newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week. In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get: 1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can searc…

This is cool! Curious what tool you used to make the GIF in your blog post?

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

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Post by rhoopr »

I've been playing around with this app for a little bit to scratch my own itch and figured I'd like to share and open-source it, since the arcane knowledge of Bambu MQTT is very heavily borrowed from other OSS projects.

bambutop -- a Rust/Ratatui TUI built for monitoring your BambuLab 3d printer.

Operates fully locally, catching the MQTT messaging that your printer already sends over the LAN. No cloud, no accounts, direct access to your printer(s)…

Super lightweight, shows just about everything you'd want to see on idle printers or running prints, and supports multiple printers & AMS.

https://github.com/rhoopr/bambutop

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

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Post by vjay15 »

AdamMeghji wrote: post #237

https://sampler.meiji.industries/ I built a TUI sampler which cherry-picks my favourite features from modern & vintage hardware samplers, DAWs, plugins, outboard FX gear, and DJ equipment. If you know what an AKAI MPC Live, MPC 3000, SP404, SP1200, BOSS RC-202, Alesis 3630, Serato Sample, S950 filters, and stem separation does, then you'll love seeing these "greatest hits" up in a terminal interface. Last year while…

why are the docs and github gone??

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

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Post by JeremyJaydan »

I'm working on a website directory [1] and currently learning about distribution.

Ultimately I have plans to make it a place where I can output my product research showcasing websites that meet my own standards and allow other people to make their own lists. The lists are called 'Topics' and are coming in the next update. :)

[1]: https://intrasti.com

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