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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
#772I got a few ideas which will probably never get done at this point
1 - actual css static analysis -- consume html + css, and provide tooling to preview what properties are inherited given the context you're in -- what you're overwriting, what display mode you're in. If there's inconsistent display modes depending on where in the html you are.
2 - a reactive html scripting language which using html as the source of truth, and synchronizes html elements through their relationships to each other
i only have prototypes, and unfortunately given the climate i feel i am the only person who wants these tools.. but every few weeks i get to sit down and get some progress and that's nice
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
#773Still working on code only CMS: https://val.build
Next up: tasteful AI features then i18n
GitHub: https://github.com/valbuild/val/blob/main/packages/next/READ...
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
#774Working on https://github.com/codeadict/gen_http a low level HTTP client library for Erlang that full featured clients can build on top of. Erlang's default HTTP client httpc is great but has a lot of process overhead, consumes memory and doesn't support HTTP2. This is heavily inspired by Mint in Elixir
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
#775Since subreddits related to identifying AI images/videos got very popular, my wife started to send me cute AI generated videos, older family members can't distinguish AI videos at all, I've decided to code a weekend side project to train their Spidey sense for AI content. https://IsThisAI.lol The content is hand picked from tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit and other AI generating platforms. Honestly I don't know w…
i honestly would have believed some of the AI ones were real if i had come across the them elsewhere. i wonder if doing a more even real / ai would make it harder to get it right.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
#776https://hidefile.app
Locally running fully working steganography in the browser.
Create and insert entire files into pngs, mp4, pdfs and jpgs. The site is a static website that loads a wasm bin that does everything in browser with wasm. So no login, or network calls.
Essentially impregnate images and videos that open normally in your browser, but have a full file system with a full gallery mode for images, pdfs and images inside. videos do seek and stream so even if you embed a 4GB video file, it opens quite fast and just works.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
#778Duralade - a programming language for durable execution (but has many neat aspects) Most of the work as of today is in a branch, can see the language spec at https://github.com/cretz/duralade/blob/initial-runtime/docs/... , and some samples at https://github.com/cretz/duralade/tree/initial-runtime/sampl... . May not amount to anything, but the ideas/concepts of this durable language are quite nice.
I'm curious what advantages this has over adding durability to an existing language, like DBOS does:
https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-demo-apps/blob/main/python/...
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
#779Since subreddits related to identifying AI images/videos got very popular, my wife started to send me cute AI generated videos, older family members can't distinguish AI videos at all, I've decided to code a weekend side project to train their Spidey sense for AI content. https://IsThisAI.lol The content is hand picked from tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit and other AI generating platforms. Honestly I don't know w…
Great idea - are you sure however that all of the "AI Generated" examples are actually AI? What about stuff made by good old fashion human + photoshop ? Obviously this would still be "generated" or not real but I think it is a somewhat important distinction
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
#780Im building https://trypixie.com to legally employ my 7 year old child, save on taxes and contribute to her Roth IRA. Im also building https://www.keepfiled.com , a microsaas to save emails (or email attachments) to google drive I almost forgot, I also built https://statphone.com - One emergency number that rings your whole family and breaks through DND. I love building. I built all these for myself. unfortunately I…
How do escalations work for statphone? If the first group doesn't respond to the call, does it escalate to the second group while the call is in progress still? What happens if the caller hangs up? Very cool idea btw!