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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by em-bee »

rrvsh wrote: post #286

Trying to figure out how to get a job in this market for someone with sub 3 YoE in the industry :/ It's hard out there for juniors, y'all. I'm working at a company that I thought I could stay for years in, but my CTO left and now I'm shafted with basically all of their responsibilities - I'm not overly perturbed by this, as it's well within my ability, but I would much rather spend the next few years as an IC and rea…

get your company to hire a fractional CTO to share the load so you get more time for coding. you can contact me. i am available.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by darshanmakwana »

Last week I wanted to quickly view some Gaussian splats which I had trained on a remote server that didn’t have any open ports or a display device. So I ended up downloading everything locally just to inspect the results

This weekend I put together a terminal-based Gaussian splats viewer that renders directly in the terminal. It works over SSH and currently runs on CPU only and written in rust with claude code. I’ve found it to be pretty useful for quickly checking which .ply files correspond to which scenes and getting a rough sense of their quality.

Along the way, I also wrote a small tutorial on the forward rasterization process for Gaussian splatting on CPUs. You can check out the project here

https://github.com/darshanmakwana412/tsplat

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by slotix »

Working on database tooling around data movement + CDC.

Trying to collapse what is usually:

SQL IDE -> export/scripts -> pipeline -> CDC -> back to SQL

into a single workflow instead of stitching 3–4 tools together.

Runs locally or via Docker, no Kafka / heavy setup.

https://streams.dbconvert.com/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by Witty0Gore »

Working on figuring out onboarding for my coding tool. For someone who has been baked into building I'm struggling to put myself into the position of a new user just landing on the website. What features do I highlight without overwhelming them?

Any advice in this arena would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by Kuyawa »

AI medical assistant for your personal care

It can analyze lab tests (uploaded as PDFs) and interpret markers for accurate assessment of conditions and treatments. It also keeps a medical record and history of consultations for further review

As a 60yo I use it all the time for everything from diets, sports injuries, heart conditions, prostate control, etc. I'm in love with it

https://mediconsulta.net

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by ge96 »

Trying to make agent clients on low end laptops like a Celeron 900, not a C++/GTK developer so was trying to do it with python, been brutal trying to build python wheels on the single core 900mhz cpu, might look into compiling on a stronger PC or just committing to C++/GTK. I was able to get it to work on an intel 270.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Post by lkbm »

I've been building a Thunderbird extension that gives me the mail view I want.

So far it's mostly just configuring hotkeys to tag messages, and settings to hide or fold messages by tag, but I can trivially add functions to parse common messages, send things to my todo list, etc. It's great how easily programmable this is. I threw together a "summarize message with Gemma4 on Ollama", and it wasn't useful, but was a quick and easy experiment.

Thunderbird extensions are just Javascript using the Thunderbird API, and Claude knows the API, so it's a super-low barrier to get started on your own personal extension.

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