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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)
#872I've been experimenting with using LLMs for a content recommender system. Specifically I've built a news reader app that fetches news articles from multiple RSS feeds, uses an LLM to first deduplicate and then score them. The user can then rate the articles and those ratings are used as few-shot examples in the LLM scoring prompt. Any resulting low score articles (uninteresting to the user) are hidden by default and…
https://www.newsminimalist.com/ has been doing this for a couple of years with reasonable success. I think yours is a fresh take, I like it.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#873Still on https://mu.xyz - a personal app platform without ads. Now includes a mini apps builder via LLMs which unlocks a lot of potential. And also an agent to navigate it via voice so I can use it hands-free in the car.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#874Working on Yomu, an indie iOS Japanese reader intended to make intermediate reading easier.
It started while I was studying for JLPT N4 — I wanted adaptive furigana that hides readings for kanji I already know, so I could focus on real text without constant lookups. That shaped the core architecture: level-based furigana, offline dictionary (JMDict), and custom tokenization logic with IPADic for accuracy.
Some interesting challenges have been furigana edge cases, Safari text paste quirks, and balancing offline performance with accuracy.
Yomu is live on the App Store now, and I’m writing about the problems that led me to build it on my blog: https://blog.kulman.sk/japanese-reading-problem/.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
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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)
Can we buy it?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#876I built this: https://github.com/dvcoolarun/web2pdf — a CLI tool for converting web pages to PDFs, recently open-sourced after adding several new features. (Might be useful!)
# -- Not related to the thread, but if anyone is looking to hire a developer or knows of opportunities, I was recently let go and am actively searching. Any leads or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
# Reference CV : https://docs.google.com/document/d/13yYXN_QM-JmGewx9DWC765pp...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
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From my experience I never felt "ready enough" to apply. I also underestimated, despite knowing how slow the process would be, the time required not to submit a proposal for funding but how long it would take to receive an answer. Consequently I recommend you start "too early".
Any recommendation for funding in the EU? I know of NLnet
I think NLNet is pretty good (I helped on https://nlnet.nl/project/xrsh/ and now working on my own https://nlnet.nl/project/ImmersiveXP/ ) but otherwise I only know at the local level, e.g. subsidies in Brussels e.g. https://www.innoviris.brussels (I'm in touch with but didn't formally apply yet).
You might also want to try https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund which isn't limited to Germany AFAICT but does focus on infrastructure.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#878Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
Can we buy it?
I don’t think it’s legal for me to sell it (it is a genetically modified organism used in food), but I’d like to figure out if I can just give it away
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#879I just made a orchid journaling app. It lets you create profiles of all your orchids, give the flowers name and track their daily statistics. Kind of like those baby tracking apps for new parents, but all about orchid flowers instead. It's made using flutter so it is supposedly cross platform, but I just made it yesterday and so far I'm only trying our the android version for all my flowers.
What if you made it like plant facebook? So other people could date other peoples plants? Haahaahhaha super cool idea btw
Thank you! I will add a feature to gift each other orchids. Plant dating sounds funny but I think it might make sense once you are the type of person who has so many flowers you are writing daily journal entries for all of them.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#880Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if you made it like plant facebook? So other people could date other peoples plants? Haahaahhaha super cool idea btw
Thank you! I will add a feature to gift each other orchids. Plant dating sounds funny but I think it might make sense once you are the type of person who has so many flowers you are writing daily journal entries for all of them.
Oh totally. Your the pro, i seriously know nothing about this field