https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture It's a lightweight screen recorder for macOS that lives in your menu bar. It's built with SwiftUI and ScreenCaptureKit, uses the native Content Picker to select what you record, and supports ProRes 422/4444, HEVC, and H.264 — including alpha channel and HDR. Frame rates from 24 to 120fps. System audio and mic simultaneously. You can also exclude specific things from recording…
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#825I've been working with my wife on Uruky [1] for a couple of months, now. It's a EU-based Kagi [2] alternative (privacy-focused and ad-free search with domain boosting/exclusion rules). We've been using it with friends and family semi-successfully (hashbangs work for edge cases we're still working on). It's really difficult to get bigger indexes other than Mojeek and Marginalia to want to work with us and improve the…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#826I have always hated how we deal with feature flags; often times as a dev I implement it, but then business decides how the flags are used, which comes back to us having to set them. I want to make this something that can be used by both easily, and priced fairly - looking at how much others charge for a feature flag SaaS is insane.
Currently I'm in heavy testing by myself, as I am quite worried about issues (that's just my personality), but yeah. It started as a normal side project for me to train a bit, then I added a bit of agentic coding to it to also learn it, and now it's here.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#827I'm building a free alternative to SimpleCitizen (YC S16). It's a free USCIS form-filling web-app(no Adobe required). USCIS forms still use XFA PDFs, which don’t let you edit in most browsers. Even with Adobe, fields break, and getting the signature is hard. So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the form, submit it, and get the offic…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
#828https://github.com/royalicing/qip
We have LLMs that generate code but that code should be untrusted: perhaps it overflows or tries to read ssh keys. If we aren’t reviewing code closely a major security hole could be on any line.
And since LLMs can generate in whatever language, it makes sense for them to write fast imperative code like C or Zig. We don’t have to pick our favorite scripting language for the ergonomics any more.
So qip tries to solve both problems by running .wasm modules in a sandbox. You can pipe from other cli tools and you can chain multiple modules together. It has conventions for text, raw bytes, and image shaders, with more to come.
I am excited by the capabilities of probabilistic coding agents, but I want to combine them deterministic code and that what these qip modules are. They are pure functions with imperative guts.
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#829Patterns I keep seeing: - Everything looks like the same beige SaaS dashboard: rounded cards, random gradient, Tailwind presets copy‑pasted until entropy. - Zero hierarchy. Every section screams at the same volume. Nothing feels like it has a “job” on the page. - Design systems are imaginary. You get a Frankenmix of Apple, Material, shadcn, and Dribbble shots in one component tree. - Micro‑interactions are overdone or completely off: bouncy, noisy, and unrelated to what the user is actually trying to do. - When you try to “refine” the design, the model tends to bulldoze the good parts instead of making small, surgical tweaks.
Built out http://automotion.dev to solve this, it turns screenshots into UI animations instantly. Been a game-changer for me and I'm my own user.
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#830Think Asciinema, but for full coding sessions with audio, video, and images.
It makes following tutorials and understanding real codebases much more practical than watching a video.
Local first, and open source.