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

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

#811
Working on a new podcast where I interview writers and we read and discuss writing in front of a Discord audience. Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/eQ9HKzgvus

Listen to the Description. https://commercialherschel.substack.com/p/episode-000-promo-...

So far it's going well, I really need some success for better tech and comms.

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

#812
post #118

I’m genetically engineering yeasts to make subtly flavored breads. I’ve already done grape aroma, now working on wintergreen. Also working on a red chamomile (using beat red biosynthesis). Just for fun. Red chamomile tea! The idea is to have niche invite-only genetically engineered flavors that I can bring to parties around SF :) what’s more special than a genetically engineered organism that you can ONLY get if I’m…

Loosely related: my new hobby project is growing and nuturing sourdough that's optimized for gluten free bread, and I'm cultivating a couple of different kinds to find out which taste I like the most.

It kind of escalated a bit once I realized that different mixtures of bacteria cultures produce differently tasting dough/bread and that you can strengthen the grow rate by optimizing the external variables.

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

#814
I was frustrated with the Claude Code scrollback bug, the one that often has your whole chat history keep rewinding, flashing and scrolling from the beginning, often multiple times per second, spanning sometimes over a minute or longer, so I build bukowski, a soft terminal wrapper that acts like a pager interface to Claude Code, Codex and Gemini.

After the logic of capturing and double buffering the CC's output resulted in a decrease of flicker of about 97.5%, I created a FIPA ACL messaging MCP bridge for all three CLI tools and wrapped it in an IRC-like chat interface. Now all three tools can communicate with each other and this works surprisingly well if you give them roles or parts of tasks.

It's all local to the terminal interface, no remote servers, no API keys, just one wrapper for local terminal multiplexing and inter agent communication.

https://github.com/vmitro/bukowski

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

#815
post #73

Making rent as an open source developer. Attracting new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my crappy HTML skills. https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

Do you mind talking a bit how you attract sponsors? Is it through work? Talks? Online forums? Something else?

I'd like to hope my past work, and activity on social media/forums/mailing lists have been helpful in some way... although I admit I could probably do better. I haven't always been that good at self-promotion.

I'm sorry I don't have a better answer, unfortunately.

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

#818
post #250

Script to auto-rename screenshots with Claude Code I'm sure there are a ton of other projects out there that do this, but I couldn't find one that fit my needs exactly, so I threw this together in a few hours. claude-image-renamer uses Claude Code CLI to analyze screenshots and rename them to something actually usable. It combines OCR text extraction with Claude's vision capabilities, so instead of "Screenshot 2025-1…

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

#819
I’m building Dreamlux.ai, a lightweight AI video maker for creators who want quick results without a steep learning curve. The focus is: pick a template, drop in text/images, generate a short video in minutes. Currently optimizing reliability (credits/accounting edge cases, caching, performance). If you’re a heavy user of AI video tools, what’s the #1 workflow pain you still have? https://dreamlux.ai

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

#820
post #118

I’m genetically engineering yeasts to make subtly flavored breads. I’ve already done grape aroma, now working on wintergreen. Also working on a red chamomile (using beat red biosynthesis). Just for fun. Red chamomile tea! The idea is to have niche invite-only genetically engineered flavors that I can bring to parties around SF :) what’s more special than a genetically engineered organism that you can ONLY get if I’m…

This is so cool. Also, it sounds like a cheeky plot to a zombie apocalypse or global contagion movie. How subtle are the flavors? Unsubtle enough that an oblivious taster might ask, "Does this bread taste like grapes to anyone else here?" Or does one need guidance to search for the flavor?

I’ve only done grape so far. It’s on the verge of subtle vs unsubtle. If you’re real used to smelling yeast OR are a woman who has a strong sense of smell, you can smell it. Otherwise it’s just bread.

It’s kinda unfair how much better women were at smelling it (empirically)

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