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

#1

Post by RoadieRoller » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

Are you working on something? Are you vibe-coding something? Please let us know!

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

#2

Post by mmarian » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

Still on my AI extension for LibreOffice Writer. Growing ok, 1,700+ downloads since launch 3 weeks ago. Still no clue how to benefit from it, but I'm glad I've finally built something that's actually got traction https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99471

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

#3

Post by Sym3tri » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

My new video synthesizer app for iOS.

https://www.chromatose.app

For creating & performing unique visuals on the go.

Freemium w/ access to all features (just a 2 patch save limit).

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

#4

Post by egonschiele » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

A parser combinator library for TypeScript: http://github.com/egonSchiele/tarsec

And a game I made with my son, similar to Chips Challenge: https://reddot.adit.io

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

#5

Post by zarathustra333 » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:51 PM UTC

https://www.usesatori.sh/ -- Giving agents user or company scoped persistent memory

I plan to make this OSS, but currently offer a managed version.

Im excited to go down the idea maze and product iterations as I think a big bottleneck for useful agents in B2B is context.

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

#6

Post by williamcotton » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

An experimental DSL for writing web applications. It's pipeline oriented, polyglot and loosely inspired by Bash pipelines. Rust runtime, fully-featured TypeScript language server (jump to def, hover, etc), full DAP debugging and a BDD-style testing framework built into the language.

Runtime: https://github.com/williamcotton/webpipe/tree/webpipe-2.0

LSP (with GIFs): https://github.com/williamcotton/webpipe-lsp/tree/webpipe-2....

Looks like:

  GET /hello/:world
    |> jq: `{ world: .params.world }`
    |> handlebars: `hello, {{world}}`
  
  describe "hello, world"
    it "calls the route"
      let world = "world"
      
      when calling GET /hello/{{world}}
      then status is 200
      and selector `p` text equals "hello, {{world}}"

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

#7

Post by efortis » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

Experimenting with native css modules. They will land in Firefox in two weeks

https://github.com/ericfortis/mockaton/issues/2

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

#8

Post by JKCalhoun » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

I saw the "TADA" post a week or so back (like "TODO" but you finished it—"Tada!") and I regretted not having done write ups for projects I did in 2025. So I'm doing that belatedly. (https://engineersneedart.com)

Also playing with building analog computers so I can understand them (and will not wait until 2027 to post about what I learned/did).

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

#9

Post by anfractuosity » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

With OpenSCAD I've made a 3D printed rotatable polariser for my microscope - https://github.com/anfractuosity/polarisers

I used these two polarisers in my microscope and a magneto-optical sensor (which exploits the faraday effect), to visualise magnetic field lines of a magstripe card - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8nM4Z-hkTw

I intend to try to use with a floppy disk, however it's not currently working for that.

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

#10

Post by kalil0321 » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

Trying to see how good Claude Code can be at scraping & data collection: https://github.com/kalil0321/reverse-api-engineer