Working on getting real-time computer vision telemetry from cameras placed in a barn. Managing the training datasets was annoying enough that I created my own simplified clone of CVAT and LabelStudio : a browser-based image annotation and review tool for detection + categorization. Will eventually expand this to an end-to-end solution.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#782Earlier quoted context omitted.
nowadays, with LLMs, everybody is calling themselves a developer doing any kind of project. Welcome to the future!
As a developer myself i hear this so often. Yes, it's (probably) your job on the line as well, BUT everybody nowadays can be a developer. Maybe, don't call it developer. Everybody nowadays can built some software that fulfills some need (or just for fun). It's actually something good, isn't it? Would you mind, if you could suddenly, over night, be a carpenter, a watch maker or glassblower?
I care a lot more about my gainful employment compared to the everyman being able to create their own... something.[1] That’s very selfish of me, AI Industry, and I’m sorry.
> Would you mind, if you could suddenly, over night, be a carpenter, a watch maker or glassblower?
Yes. If that came with the little-bitty stipulation of being tied to the “compute” property of these AI behemoths.
Of course going beyond that it gets less problematic. Some carpenter-skilled exoskeleton is a lot less problematic than disembodied intelligences spamming our minds and each other.
[1] What exactly? My mind is so saturated with AI tools being literally devtools. On top of devtools on top of devtools.
Well we can finally get back to a semblance of the status quo ante Internetum with something like businesses being able to list all of their contact information on their own websites instead of “see our FB page”.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#783It's lame, but a todo list app: jatabag.com
It's tailored toward implementing a web version of the original cli app and whitepaper "grit" https://github.com/climech/grit
So basically it creates a DAG and each task node can receive some annotated data (traits) about whether the task is actionable or not.
I've been using it daily for a year or so. Slight bummer that I feel I released it 5 years overdue, though, and it's doomed to drown in noise.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#784https://shopspec.io/ ShopSpec is a deterministic parametric furniture generator (bookshelves, cabinets, shop carts, leg-and-rail frames, multi-carcass composites) that encodes real woodworking intelligence and outputs shop-ready artifacts. Most recently, introduced the concept of value engineering by sweeping across dimensions to batch evaluate candidates that ranks based on sheet purchases. Also have in beta an MCP…
Awesome, is there a way to use metric system on it?
It is not currently implemented but planned for the future based on all of the feedback here.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#785http://schoolholidays.deals/ A UK-based flight deals service aimed specifically at parents who can only travel during term-time. Having this issue myself now with two children whereby flight prices double going into school holiday season, I have always wanted some kind of service which alerts me of good deals. I still have a long way to refining the actual product, but trying to fit the development around work commit…
Brilliant brilliant idea
It is but isn't it bizarre that this is what was sold to us re. 'Agents'?
Yet here we are.
This 'agents' paradigm is foolish and what that poster is doing is closer to reality. Good work.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#786I've built Flexito, a website/mobile app (it's PWA) for daily stretching and mobility exercises. As many of us here, I sit too much in my chair during the day and I'm trying to stretch more often and strengthen my back/core muscles. There are a lot of "free" apps out there e.g. Bend that are helpful but I was annoyed with ads and limitations so I built one for myself. Now I use it daily. The app is simple, you have a…
How did you generate the images for all the routines? I’ve been wanting to really build something like but for games that you can play with your newborn
All images were generated by Gemini. For me so far the best model when it comes to image generation.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#787https://mirekrusin.com/cave Palantir like system – data, ontology, logic, actions, security, operational workflows – packaged as single cli, local first, git friendly text .cave files and sqlite3 instead of k8s-style complexity blowup. Working on the weekends. Next is probably extension of the language to integrate something like https://github.com/mirek/ast for arbitrary ast traversals/modification/generation/better…
`--as-of` might be the most important feature in your codebase. Temporality of relationships is way way more important than I thought when I first started down the path of modeling relational data in agentic systems. Sometimes knowing why or why not at a glance can be the difference between spending another $50 on tokens retreading old ground. This is very cool, and I will probably discard my handrolled version in favor of your much more robust solution.
Have you considered allowing annotation of why something changed as part of a tx?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#788https://mirekrusin.com/cave Palantir like system – data, ontology, logic, actions, security, operational workflows – packaged as single cli, local first, git friendly text .cave files and sqlite3 instead of k8s-style complexity blowup. Working on the weekends. Next is probably extension of the language to integrate something like https://github.com/mirek/ast for arbitrary ast traversals/modification/generation/better…
Interesting project. I've been thinking about the need for something similar at work when a coworker thought it was a good idea to explode our design documents by having an AI slop out tens of pages of additional design w/ zero consideration of modeling of the human-derived ground-truth or knowledge ontology.
A humble suggestion is to consider having this become an annotation layer on top of existing code or documentation.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
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Thanks for doing that!
For more context on these numbers: when I started posting these, first, I wasn't consistent, and second, I was doing something that, to the algorithm, looked suspicious, so I think the posts had a negative weight.
In 2024, HN reached out and it got more of an official blessing for me to run these, and we set an official day of the month (the second Sunday), which in turn made me more consistent.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#790Trying to convince people to get kids outside for their eye health:
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Hardware for kids and parents to stay connected without screens: