Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) • Hacker News Board

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

#901

Post by mrdlads » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC

Recovering from snapcity, been increasing my productive procrastination pipeline. Some stuff I knocked out in the last few months.

A few extensions:

Find threads on hacknews and reddit https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mrd-thread-search-h...

Track New Comments and Keyworks on hacknews and old reddit https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mrd-comment-control...

Autocopy for my TTS pipeline https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mrd-regex-autocopy/...

Give them a go, I have a few more that I can't publish because I don't have enough users. Help a brother out, need more slots so I can push other extensions and use cloud sync.

more at https://mrdlads.com

Twitter / X scraper https://mrdlads.com/projects/mrd-xdigest/

Turn youtube tabs into playlists https://mrdlads.com/projects/mrd-youtube-tabplay/

More generalized multisearch and highlght https://mrdlads.com/projects/mrd-multisearch/

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

#902

Post by svyatov » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

I've been working on oss-kit for open-source maintainers. Primarily to scratch my own itch and make it easier to keep all my project up-to-date and in a good shape.

https://github.com/svyatov/oss-kit

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

#903

Post by jondwillis » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:42 PM UTC

Remaking the Final Fantasy XI client. The idea is to have a ~0.9:1 faithful reimplementation of the retail client without a lot of the performance jank and cruft that the original has, and then layer optional improvements, QoL, graphical improvements, UI/UX improvements etc., on top with a plugin system and hackable source code for players across various private servers.

This approach allows people that just want to replace their familiar client with something slightly more modern/performant/cross-platform, all the way to entirely new experiences.

There's at least one other project, not yet open-sourced, which is going more in the direction of adding all of the enhancements by default.

https://github.com/jondwillis/kuluu-ffxi

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

#904

Post by mrdlads » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:42 PM UTC

https://tv.mrdlads.com/

https://tv.mrdlads.com/?tv=5 (boots into TV mode)

Youtube sub list viewer + Youtube TV scheduler

Setup a little finicky, have to do via google sheet / appscript to access use your youtube API quota.

Build and share custom youtube TV stations.

I mainly use the primary table view, you can double sort columns, middle click title column to queue a playlist based on how table is sorted, it'll generate playlist for X minutes, modified by playback speed, skipwatched filled etc, very useful for staying up to date with your own subs. Nominal fee for syncing between devices.

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

#905

Post by mrdlads » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:46 PM UTC

https://platemath.mrdlads.com

TLDR power user work out tracker, all PRs, metrics, fast keypad input or codemirror syntax input if you're lazy type that jots in notepad. Generate any exercise based on movement + modifer system. Mountan of metrics (your basic lifitng stuff), rolling averages etc. Fractional set tracking, bodypart volume... too much to list. Build and import programs using syntax.

Lazy overview while I work on docs.

https://imgur.com/a/when-you-cant-pr-platemath-rPNmxKg

Looking for users to stress test at some point, but feel free to play around.

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

#906

Post by dumbfoundded » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:47 PM UTC

I created an ai cross-stitch pattern generating tool: https://stitchwink.com/admin

If you try to use image generation directly, you don't get real patterns. StitchWink makes real patterns that you can also edit manually or through text/images with AI.

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

#907

Post by nodivbyzero » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

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

#908

Post by devrob » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

I'm building a couple of things:

1. Creating a MacOS native personal finance tracking + networth dashboard, inspired by Gnucash but no complex business stuff (e.g., Tax invoices)

2. Creating a vision / journey board that tracks your life milestones and displays them in a personal mandala / spiral :)

3. Trying to build an visual story telling tool that lets me convert my medium to long form essays into visual animated companions for youtube. e.g.,

Press 'ENTER' to Feel_ // A Techno Phenomenology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq5tlsX8uIM

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

#909

Post by jjordan » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:52 PM UTC

aleqs wrote: post #899

I've been working on a general repository linter. The idea is to declaratively define a set of rules/conventions for your repo, (for things that language-specific linters don't cover), covering things from directory structure, required files, file staleness/freshness, file size, rules for binary files, rules around use of invisible Unicode, etc. - which can be checked deterministically. Many/most large repos have a s…

It would be great if I could integrate this into our existing (and rather extensive) eslint config as as a plugin of some sort rather than integrate yet another new tool to our dev environment. Any plans for that?

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

#910

Post by binsquare » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC

I'm building smol machines, a new sandboxing primitive that works locally/remotely to introduce "branchable compute".

It's an idea I had to basically makes it possible to checkpoint, branch, rollback the entire vm kind of like git but on the entire computer.

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm