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

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I'm working on https://wireplug.org : wireplug lets you create mesh VPNs using standard WireGuard. Your wg config files stay almost the same, except you no longer have to specify an `Endpoint` for your peers. Instead, wireplug detects all your possible endpoints (including LAN) and coordinates them with your peers for you. It handles NAT traversal and works with the in-kernel WireGuard driver on Linux and OpenBSD. Th…

Sounds interesting. Tailscale without handing off key management?

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

#963

Lapse (lapse.in) – a little memory space for my AI agents I kept losing thoughts. An idea would show up while walking, half a sentence before falling asleep, some random connection I knew I’d want later — and by the time I found the right app to write it down, it was gone. So I built Lapse for myself. It’s a memory layer that my AI agents can read from and write to. I can talk to it, dump a thought, or send it someth…

This looks very cool, will most likely check it out!

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

#964
post #153

I’m building FitBee, a fast, ad-free, no-nonsense calorie and macro tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The app is built with Swift and SwiftUI, with a Python backend. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-macro-counter/i...

How have you acquired users? App looks cool.

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

#965
Come hang out at Tokenstead.ai a local llm focused community where we help you understand what models can run on your local hardware, which open-weight models might be best for your use case, latest news and a bunch of other stuff.

It's still early days but this is my passion so I thought I'd turn it into a community site. More socials are coming, right now we are ok X @tokenstead and YouTube coming soon.

Would love some feedback!

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

#966
For the past couple of month, I have been building belgie (https://github.com/mplemay/belgie) with the goal of making it easy for agents to dynamically generate user interfaces / code in a sandboxed environment. At a high-level, it supports

1. Create React MCP UIs (and traditional Web UIs) from python without needing a JS runtime installed

2. Provides a deno backed typescript sandbox for agent generated code via pydantic-ai / langchain

A great example use cases is automatically generating UIs for SQL query results.

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

#967
I wanted to say I was ticking off all my dusty project ideas with LLMs one at a time. But in reality what I have been working the hardest so far is to help family in times of need, one situation after another for a few years by now.

I'm just glad I had a nice Father's day recently and it paid off. Finger's crossed for more like this.

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

#969

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…

Wishing you all the best with this project. Super cool.

If you are looking to improve the mcp, you should try adding a UI to it (see https://apps.extensions.modelcontextprotocol.io/api/). And the server happens to be in python, you should check out: https://mplemay.github.io/belgie/examples/mcp/. It is a project I have been working on which makes it easy to build MCP UIs from python.

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

#970
post #894

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 g…

What service / API are you using to execute the trades? Has latency been an issue?
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