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

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

#761
A PR quality gate which grills me to make sure I understand the code changes I am making before I merge. I have been working on an AI app which deals with vulnerable users lest I ruin the experience for my customers so I am a little bit hesitant to "go fast" but I find AI really helpful in my process.

I actually have been working on it for a little while but this is the first week where it's been quite helpful.

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

#762
I'm working on Proxigem, an app (Android only right now, working on iOS). It shows you history, notable people, census stats (some countries), Wikipedia articles and other points of interest around you. Built to work offline so no connectivity needed when travelling.

https://www.proxigem.com/

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

#763
We are building an ADE (Agent Development Environment) called Podium: https://github.com/madeinorbit/podium

It's not really ready for public consumption yet, but it's been our exclusive daily driver for the past month.

There are so many projects like it popping up every day, but we believe we have something unique. Current standout features are one click onboarding of new VPSs into the agent fleet. Agent orchestration across all these machines and different harnesses. A Codex coordinator on one machine can run a Grok implementer subagent on another machine and they can talk to each other.

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

#764
I just released HNewsflash [1], an iOS Hacker News reader, which accumulates the top upvoted HN stories over a given timeframe and lets you scroll through its discussions. I developed it for occasional HN users who do not open the frontpage on a daily basis and don't want to miss out on latest posts and news.

The app is build in native SwiftUI. Since the official HN API returns only one item per request, a single thread would mean hundreds of round trips, so there's a small Go + Postgres service in front that archives the top stories, flattens comment trees into one response and caches them.

Big shoutout to https://hckrnews.com, which gave me the initial idea. I wanted to create something similar for mobile that can also handle comments and discussions.

Other features include

* bookmarks

* code block and markdown rendering

* no ads, no tracking

[1] https://apps.apple.com/app/id6450697950

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

#765
A game about cutting firewood while drinking beer. Cutting logs lets you sell firewood, which you spend on increasingly absurd upgrades (axes, wood types, booze). And yes, you can absolutely hack yourself in the kneecap!

It's my first game aiming for a commercial release on Steam, so it's taking me longer than expected. Have been working on it for eight months now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4521770/Drunk_Woodcutter

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

#766

A game about cutting firewood while drinking beer. Cutting logs lets you sell firewood, which you spend on increasingly absurd upgrades (axes, wood types, booze). And yes, you can absolutely hack yourself in the kneecap! It's my first game aiming for a commercial release on Steam, so it's taking me longer than expected. Have been working on it for eight months now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4521770/Drunk_Woo…

love this idea have a few friends who seem natural players already xD!

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

#767
Worldwide medical standards implementations with Rust for FHIR, openEHR, SNOMED, etc. Official specifications work well with Claude Fable, test automation, and storage using relational databases.

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) using Rust:

https://github.com/fhir-rust/fhir-rust

Open Electronic Patient Record (openEHR) using Rust:

https://github.com/openehr-rust/openehr-rust

Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) using Rust:

https://github.com/snomed-rust/snomed-rust

I have work in progress creating stores for PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, Oracle.

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

#768
I am working on a reverse engineering platform on FreeBSD. i know there are many tools but i want to learn more about them aswell as most if not all of them being ports, so i focus on using only libraries natively supported on FreeBSD just as an added requirement.

it wont be very innovative likely but its a lot of fun :). its my first c++ project too so getting used to the compiler doing some lifting for me which is also something i wanna explore a bit more seriously. (usually work in C).

it will also be gui first and feature the regular and some unique visualisation ideas for the involved processes and data.

after trying LLM supported / agentic workflows i decided this should be my manual mode happy place project to counter the effects of being a 1,2 presser / prompter for a lot of other stuff.

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

#769
I'm testing a bunch of Saas ideas, all micro or smaller. I got to launch the first one last week; a feedback collection widget and board so users can submit feedback anonymously. Its a simpler version of Canny or UpVote; and with an MCP and API backed in from the get go.

I got inspired by the guys behind purelymail.com so I'm keeping the pricing simple $9/mo or $90/yr per project. The free plan has every feature, capped at 50 feedback items.

I'm running a promotion for the month of August: http://shiplog.ca/fairwinds

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

#770

I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…

This is amazing I been wanting something like for a long time. I'm also curious whats up with the no VC logo at the bottom of the page?
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