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

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I'm working on making unstructured operating knowledge maintain itself. If a customer's phone number changes, that goes in the CRM. But if a salesperson learns the customer is planning to open new locations, everyone else who talks to that customer should know, and today they mostly don't. In fact, there's probably not even a good place for that valuable nugget to be stored.

The information exists. It's in email and Slack, in threads with the customer, internal discussions, meeting transcripts. But nobody updates the customer page since the payoff is deferred. We're trying to update it automatically.

Maintenance looks doable. Cold start is the part I don't have a good answer for yet: how do you work out that a company cares about customers, competitors and products as entity types, and build those lists for them, without handing them a setup task? That's what we're tackling next.

https://www.thisandthat.chat

Product photography for software.

https://ui.camera

Been wanting to develop something like this. Used Monica but didn't go further with it.

Have you read: https://sive.rs/hundreds ? I wanted something that resembles with Sivers talks about there (which is what you seem to have with circles).

Read through docs. Seems like a solid piece of work. Good luck

I'm currently working on a JAX Pallas demo for Apple GPU that works by translating jaxprs into Metal shading language, compiling that, and then executing with buffers from Python exchanged with nanobind.

I planned this as just an exercise for me to learn more about MSL, GPU kernel programming, and to shake off the rust on numerics accumulated since studies, but if anyone wants to try it, you can find it at https://github.com/nicholasjng/palladium.