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

You start with selecting genres you're interested in and can see exactly which bands match your selection from your library (or globally). You can also tweak the playlists in a number of ways through advanced filters like excluding tracks you've played recently, release dates, collaborations, different sort methods.

Recently I added a new feature - select a few (or one) playlists and create a "mirror", with tracks belonging to the artists of your selected playlists.

Also there are a few other playlist modes I'm working on that will allow you to make more interesting selections.

I'm trying to improve access to raw data, expand the sensing modalities, and improve data quality for studies in to diseases that can present through cardiovascular mechanisms.

If you’ve done research with wearables, I’d be interested to hear what the biggest limitations were for you, as well as any general advice!

I used to be a biomedical postdoc, then medical device engineer, it was so difficult to do wearable research at scale unless you were inside one of the big companies, you could buy the devices, but getting to the raw data was often impossible, and there were always data dropout issues over longitudinal studies. I suspect it's partly because the hardware and systems are designed primarily for low cost consumer applications rather than open ended research, whilst companies also see the longitudinal data sets as very valuable and are reluctant to make them fully accessible. So I'm trying to build something more research focused.

I've been writing about the embedded C side of the project as I go: https://skoopsy.dev

The idea is simple: I love local multiplayer games and game nights but felt that there was always too much hassle with switching between different titles and connecting 4-8 controllers to one PC or console. Jackbox worked great but they relied too much on language and didn't work when the group had people not fluent in english.

Therefore I decided to create a site that is dedicated to action-oriented party games. So no trivia or language based games. When I first showed the idea here on HN, other forums and game fairs, I received a lot of questions from fellow game devs asking if they could bring their own game ideas to the platform as well. I started to work on third-party development tools, which are now in private beta. Last Friday was a big moment as the first 3rd party game was launched on the platform!! https://gamingcouch.com/blog/protostellar-impact-launch

I'm now looking for more game devs interested in making fun party minigames, if you're interested, check out https://gamingcouch.com/developers and hit me up either here, by mail (from my profile) or by joining the community Discord and pinging me!

The TL;DR of Gaming Couch:

- Free Early Access with +20 competitive mini-games.

- Players use their phones as controllers (gamepads work too).

- Completely web-based, no downloads or installs needed.

- Every game supports up to 8 players and is action-based, with quick ~1 minute rounds to keep a good pace. No language-based trivia or asynchronous (turn based) games.