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

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

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Post by tom_808 »

taylorfinley wrote: post #136

I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…

This is absolutely fantastic. Bravo. I'm excited to use it!

Please consider adding metric measuremts support though. My brain can't work in fractions of an inch.

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

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Post by cgopalan »

For occasions like birthdays or Christmas where people want to give you gifts, I have always wanted to ask them to make donations to charities of my choosing instead. So I built an app to enable this: http://donateyourgift.com/ It is very simple but I didn't find anything quite singly-focused like it, so I built it just to scratch my own itch.

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

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Post by suncemoje »

jagmeetchawla wrote: post #867

After 30 years of corporate life, I'm rediscovering the magic of building - and yes, coding. Deep into Rust, Swift, and Claude Code these days. One problem I keep hitting: with unattended sessions, or something done a while ago, I find it difficult to reconstruct what I asked Claude Code to do and what it actually ended up doing. Yes, there are sessions I can scroll, and there are jsonl files I can grep. And yes, the…

Also been observing "productivity loss" by working on multiple Claude Code sessions in parallel (~5-7) and having to context switch between them multiple times during the day. Sometimes I literally have to ask "My brain is fried, can you catch me up? Keep it concise ..." Other times I force myself to not open another session and rather wait for a few minutes for an ongoing session to finish. Otherwise there's the built-in "recap" summary at the end of each chat, but for whatever reason I rarely read them (maybe I should).

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

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Post by witweb »

I've been working on and off for many years on my own weather app mainly to learn Swift/ SwiftUI. Forecasts come from national and international weather institutes via https://open-meteo.com/ but I am running my own server component that ingests data from NOAA, MSC, DWD, EUMETNET, CWA, and more for radar-based rain alerts, weather alerts, and my own map layers for the app (radar, temperature, precipitation, radar, pressure, wind, ...). It's based on open and free data and all features will be free to use on release date. I have no intention of making money with this, just something I personally like to use.

Most features are available in NA and EU by now so if this feels remotely interesting, feel free to download. Friends and family tell me it's miles better than what they were using but feel free to check if out and give me some feedback :)

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xf5iJcHh

For some screenshots: https://bsky.app/profile/oscars.love

GitHub (outdated readme): https://github.com/strumswell/oscar-weather

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

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Post by cdaringe »

- Multiplayer Mario Builder 64, via Coop DX. Pretty much done, with playtested macos builds.

- Adding bezier curve support, adding Western duplex support, to kle-ng for keyboard fab. Wanted to build a BIG keyboard, but get ergo support and the pcb gen working for non trivially large builds

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

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Post by abdullahkhalids »

schmuhblaster wrote: post #873

I’ve been working on DeepClause [0], an agentic harness, the core of which is based on Prolog. Every interaction (conversation turn, plan, execute plan, etc.) triggers a small logic program that orchestrates one or more agent loops or prompts. All these programs are completely hackable, so you can easily adjust the core logic and behavior of your agents in a reliable manner. Also, instead of using markdown specs, you…

Pretty cool stuff. Do you think it's possible to easily build a science oriented harness like Ref. [1] in DeepClause?

[1] https://github.com/1stproof/batch-2/tree/main/batch-2-submis...

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

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Post by tomchuk »

Wired up Twilio & Anthropic API on a Cloudflare Worker so I can chat with Claude via Garmin InReach during a 3-week backcountry trip to Alaska's North Slope. Location metadata is included in the system prompt for accurate location-based info (weather, hunting regs, etc). Waiting to hear back from Garmin sales for access to their professional plans, which include their inReach Portal Connect inbound/outbound APIs.

Also working on a small, portable USB-PD bench power supply: Regulated 3V3, 5V, 12V & unregulated PPS/EPR AVS pass-through. RP2040 running the show, driving a little OLED screen & some buttons for configuration. Includes a separate, galvanically isolated USB-C port in CDC-ACM for data: Dumps CSV data by default, then switches to a native protocol via handshake with a desktop/cli app. Desktop app shows live graphs for all outputs, exposes configuration, alarms, etc. CLI can turn every config knob, give live readings, or run a TOML-defined test plan. PyO3 wrapper around the protocol lib for easy scripting. Firmware is Rust/Embassy, GUI/CLI is Rust/eGUI/Ratatui. Goal is for it to be about the size of a pack of cigarettes.

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