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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 Tianning »

kokkis wrote: post #647

I'm building a financial censorship monitor at https://nofunds.org/ , that tells a story of how money has been turned into a political weapon to silence journalists, activists, and civil society by freezing assets, blocking accounts, sanctioning, and banning payments. It's part of my master's thesis https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/187407 and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430596 , but now I wanted to m…

I built cross-border compliance Management info system dashboards at a Swiss private bank. The much more widespread reality is: entire nationalities and residencies get quietly moved to "do not serve" lists because the regulatory cost of serving them exceeds revenue. No public process, no appeal, no notice, you just can't open an account:financial exclusion most people never see.

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

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Post by sinak »

kokkis wrote: post #647

I'm building a financial censorship monitor at https://nofunds.org/ , that tells a story of how money has been turned into a political weapon to silence journalists, activists, and civil society by freezing assets, blocking accounts, sanctioning, and banning payments. It's part of my master's thesis https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/187407 and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430596 , but now I wanted to m…

Have you read or connected with Rainey Reitman, who just published the book Transaction Denied?

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

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Post by milind-soni »

I'm building an AI Tour Guide builder for any website or App( https://tiptour.io/ ). I made a chrome extension which helps you record and build interactive cursor following tooltip for your webapp and integrate with your web app using just a script tag. Not fully mature yet as im still stuck with chrome developer review

Alongside I am working on a MacOS version based on an open source project (Clicky)

I created a follow along teacher to help you follow youtube tutorials interactively. It goes through the video link, extracts all the action items and creates a tour for you so that you can interact as you are watching the video.

Check out the MacOS version demo video here

https://x.com/milindlabs/status/2041926791745695848?s=20

Still in discovery mode where I'm finding which of the form factors people really like the most (Web or Local) and planning to go all in based on what users like more.

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

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Post by cgenuity »

Still a bit rough, but working on https://delaykit.dev.

The Node.js ecosystem doesn't seem to have a good primitive for app-level, per-event scheduling (things like "expire this abandoned cart in 24h" or "debounce 50 profile updates into one reindex"). Cron is too broad and you still have write the polling/scheduler code yourself. Job queues optimize for throughput and usually bolt `run_at` on as an afterthought. Workflow engines are overkill for a simple "do this thing later, tied to this user" and want you to adopt their runtime.

DelayKit aims to be the in-between. It is backed by Postgres and uses keys like `dk.schedule("expire-cart", { key: cartID, delay: "24h" })`. Handlers get the key, not a payload, and fetch fresh state at fire time. This way DelayKit is only responsible for the "hey remember you have to do this thing for cart X" part.

I'm working through making it production-ready at the moment, the initial passes were more around figuring out the API and general architecture. Thoughts and comments greatly appreciated!

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

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Post by arondeparon »

I am working on several things at the same time right now:

- https://usewarpgate.com: a MCP for MCPs, basically. Aiming to streamline all the pain points that I experienced with MCP in there. Centralised authentication, auditing, tool control, automatic MCPs through OpenAPI specs, accessing private servers, etc.

- https://focusjar.app: a little app I built because my own focus was super wrecked lately. Basically a distraction blocker that is _really_ hard to bypass and makes you pay actual $$$ if you cancel a session early.

- https://mergehelper.com: another little app that I built for myself that brings together all my pull- and merge requests from Github and Gitlab into a single compact menu bar.

- https://sift.works: still very early days, but building a tool that can connect to any database, helps you query it (with AI if so-desired), allows you to create dashboards, and exposes everything through an MCP

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

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Post by ekns »

I call it LawVM - interpret amendment statutes as "programs" and verifiably replay them to obtain actual consolidated i.e. current law as it stands (or where ambiguous, surface that)

I was annoyed that in Finland there is no way to know what the law even says, it's basically a do-it-yourself endeavour and the "official" consolidated law isn't even official. If the manual compilation/consolidation has any errors, then you're out of luck. Courts only decide based on the original statutes. And I have found hundreds of errors when doing the compilation.

This could've been done for >30 years and no one ever did.

Full release soon enough once I've cleaned it up. It's a whole compiler suite with Finland, Estonia, UK, Sweden, Norway to start with.

Part of a larger project to build the "state causal map" and doing AI-assisted analysis of all the mechanisms that comprise a state and therefore what is most harmful and what is optimal for governance. LawVM itself doesn't use AI at all except for development.

For the latter: https://mekanismirealismi.fi/mev/he-38-2025-hva-funding and https://mekanismirealismi.fi/mechanism-authority etc.

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