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

AI quant trading (so that I have another income and can stop being threatened by managers that if I don't meet their unrealistic expecations that I won't have food on the table next year).

So far it's going well, 30000% gains on my initial capital in 3 months very gradually over 100K trades. But I need to build some more sleeves because (a) the edge could die any time (b) I hit capacity of that edge and it can only grow linearly now.

I'm working on my game "Teufelskreis", a roguelite roulette deckbuilder. Think Slay the Spire meets Inscryption meets Balatro meets Buckshot Roulette.

https://s.team/a/4652150

Solo project I've been chipping away at for a while now. I finally wanted to dip my feet in gamedev and it's been super fun with Godot so far! Hoping to release the trailer very soon :)

Can you look for sailors in your Shenmue experience? That's highly critical to include!

I've got two small projects on the go right now!

The first is a piece of small charity / business governance tech. I'm a trustee of a small charity in the UK, and my wife has been a senior leader of one in the past as well. All the governance tools are super expensive and aimed at businesses with large boards. They're not very suitable for smaller charities who just need something to help them maintain and publish policies, track key structure changes, and governances cycles.

So I'm working on a small bit of SaaS which helps those organisations to stay organised, and walk them through particular processes. The two big benefits are:

1. An audit log of all actions taken across policies, risk registers, board member terms, key information submissions, etc. So you can always see who did what when. 2. A calendar + reminder system which does things like prompt the Chair when someone's term is coming to an end, and auto-populates upcoming meeting agendas.

It's been useful for the charity I work with, I don't really expect it to be a big thing but the hosting cost of ~£40 a month is already saving me a lot of time. I'd like to see if I can get it in use by a couple of other organisations though.

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The other is a data toolkit for UK secondary schools. We have quite a complex way of assessing a schools outcomes for students called "Progress 8". The spec for it is published by the DfE, but there isn't really a tool out there which will do the calculations so a lot of schools either work from complex spreadsheets or wait for the DfE's announcements with the league tables.

My father is a Director of Schools Performance at a Multi-Academy Trust and this seemed like something we could pair up on. He's got a very comprehensive spreadsheet which does the initial calculations, and some continued analysis but it's not very easy to use and making tweaks can take days.

I put together a prototype project which would take in a csv of pupil results and spit out all the Attainment 8 and Progress 8 results. The next step is to wrap it up into a nice web app, and do further analysis. I'd like a school to be able to see things like the Marginal Contribution of each subject and such.

Again, this isn't something I expect to sell to many people. Schools in the UK have no money going spare right now, but it's been a fun venture into the world of data.

I'm looking for brutal feedback for my game that I'm working on.

I'm working on a cozy voxel game with RPG and platforming elements. Still early days, so I'm still figuring things out. Players play on their own private instances. The world is very malleable as player instances are based on a "master tape" world that I maintain. After creation that fork is the players own, and they do whatever they want.

You can play a browser build here: https://automatia.libriscv.no:3000/

If playing is not your jam, here's my latest post: https://libriscv.no/blog/next-of-kin (although it will not explain much about the game)