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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)

#901
I've been working on https://DNSRadar.dev for the past three weeks now.

I had the need for such a service back when I was working on ImprovMX.com. The checking system I had implemented back then wasn't efficient and had a few false positive.

At the time, I thought the market for such a need was very low so I didn't bother, but now that I'm working on https://getfernand.com, I realize I also need it. And with the advent of more and more products thanks to AI and the enthusiasm around tech, the market is growing, so it might be worth the effort to release it as a side project.

I took it as a challenge, on two simultaneous front: Technical, and AI.

On the technical side, the aim is to have a highly efficient script able to process millions of DNS record at the lowest time possible. I had to rewrite the script a few times and see how I could optimize it, but my tests lands me at around 500 QPS for now.

I'm testing against Cloudflare's DNS, and I know they have a limit at 1500 QPS, so I can't go much higher (per server), but once I reach that limit, I'll grow horizontally.

For the AI side, my approach was as follow: Use a standard web framework (Sanic in my case), build the API with a proper database structure, and once I'm satisfied with it, ask Claude code to write the OpenAPISpec file.

Once I had it, I used Mintlify to write the doc for this, and the help of Claude to have nicely written guides (rate limit, authentication, etc). Then, I asked Claude to generate the landing page, and the dashboard system.

So, except for the API and the core of the service, the other parts was mostly written in AI (I fixed some issues, improved the code Claude gave me, but that's all).

Less than three weeks after, the service is almost ready to go live. I still need to clean the code in the Dashboard part, and finalize the touches on the API server, but it can be used already (and it's used by us at Fernand).

Feel free to share your comments :)

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

#902

Nowhere near as impressive as some of the things here but I’ve been slowly growing out a daily puzzle website https://regularly.co - I built the first few games for my wife, no subscriptions, no pay to play, no sign up needed. Im launching a new word game next week which I’m super excited about. If you do play it and have any feedback do shoot me message!

Cool site! For paths it might be nice to have to the option to place an X where a light bulb definitely couldn't go. Unless if you left that out on purpose of course :)

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

#907
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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…

I'm doing it with gemini-cli: 1. analyze '/Users/YOURNAME/Movies/' and for each mp4 file give a meaningful name base on the content of the video 2. analyze '/Users/YOURNAME/Pictures/' and for each image file give a meaningful name base on the content of the image

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

#908

Spent about 2 years improving printing and scanning stack of Linux: CUPS, SANE, AirSane, as well as some legacy drivers, and also x86 proprietary driver emulation on ARM with Box86. Even that "modern" printing stack in Linux is 20+ years old, there's still such an unbelievable amount of basic bugs and low-hanging-fruit optimizations, that it's kinda sad. Not to mention that it still maintains ALL its legacy compatibi…

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

#909
I've been working on https://dataraven.io/ - A managed service for cloud to cloud object storage transfer to easily and quickly transfer data between AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, and any S3-compatible endpoint. It's built on amazing open source tool RClone.

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

#910

Building an AI Hacker - https://aisafe.io It managed to clear some pentesting benchmarks recently, so I'm very excited to put it through the fire against some real websites soon. Please let me know if you have any recommendations for cool potential targets.

I've been looking for a servicve like this. can it hack my backend api https://api.dataraven.io/scalar? i can provide a jwt etc
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