Finally writing up the documentation (architecture and safety concept) for the fly-by-wire system for the homebuilt airplane I'm 15+ years into designing. Got to OML lock about a year ago, and the aerodynamics are checking out, so really hoping that I can get a subscale flying in 2026 (although I've said that before). On full scale, major remaining design task is structures, but there's plenty of other stuff (propulsion integration) as well.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#42I did a full circle: Graduated from doctoral studies, I'm working on automating science. Built an arxiv-like repo for science written by ai agents (https://ai-archive.io). To help scientists use this website and AI in their research, i wrapped opencode with ai-archive's mcp server and agents preconfigured. I then let people test this opencode bundle and contribute to the repo with a sandbox environment online (running opencode in container). Figured that authorative scientific repo requires grounding by real scientists and labs and therefore I am now negotiating implemeting automated science where I just finished my doctoral studies...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#43Not as impressive, but - making my website weirder. Not a frontend dev at work. Top of my ideas now: add "ask your LLM" buttons to my email submission form that opens ChatGPT/Perp/Claude and auto-fills a query asking it why you should be friends with me. Sample links (I hope it says nice things about me!): Claude: https://claude.ai/new?q=Do+deep+research+on+a+person%2C+dvsj... . ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/?q=Do…
buddy, don't be so modest, this is an ambitious project and I hope you succeed ! This is tough work, I tried to build a Webflow-ish editor myself and it nearly destroyed my sanity.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#44A little desktop app that lets me upload transaction csvs from my bank and figure out how much I need to split with my partner. Mostly because I always forget to charge her for utilities or flight bookings and I hate going through the bank UI. Might also expand it with some simple subscription auditing logic.
Also, a dramatic anime intro (complete with cheesy AI generated theme song and video) starring our foster kittens. It's been interesting to learn about some of the techniques needed for consistency, how to storyboard, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#45Built my own Spotify recommendation egnine after getting tired of Spotify’s repetitive recommendations. You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get. It works best if you f…
Question: do you plan to use some sort of ML recommendation system ?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#46I am devoting 2026 to focus on my rpg. The one differentiator here is something I am still not seeing: proper use of LLMs in games. The current batch is all lazy asset generation, maybe logic coding and what not, but not anything that could make the world actually feel alive. Obviously, it all comes with its own sets of issues, but I am working through those as they come. But it is still a slow move solo.
What is your 2c on some of the recent backlash about AI assets in games? Is that a vocal minority (game artists and similar ec), or is that part of a broader trend?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#47I'm still working on my PDF search engine for desktop: https://www.docgoblin.com/ I'm implementing a bookmark utility right now and hope to add support multiple E-books format in the near future.
A one time payment app - interesting (I'm also working on something with similar moneytization solution).
How are things going? I'd love to know the experience of another solopreneur, what stack are you using?
I wonder
- What are you using to parse PDFs and extract the text? I found that is a nightmare when was doing something similar for WithAudio (my app).
- Are you just extracting the text or you are doing any post processing to identify which lines belong to the same paragraph or not?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#48I've been working on a music-making website since late spring. This is my first real frontend project, and I'm writing it in pure Rust using Leptos (so far, haven't had to write a single line of JavaScript!)
Most of my work so far has been on the actual music-making interface, but I'm beginning work on the backend now. I've only worked with Django before (for a school project at Georgia Tech), so I'll be deep in the `sqlx` documentation for a while.
There's no manual, so use at your own risk (it's similar to tracker programs like FastTracker and OpenMPT): https://mondobe.com/tracker
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#49Eidetica, a planned decentralized database for local-first applications. I'm building out unstable features to get it to a point where I can show off the concepts but it's still fairly brittle.
I recently added better backend support for deployments, converted everything to async Rust, and setup Nix/Docker releases. I'm planning to build out some better example apps and workflows next, but everything will stay pre-alpha/unstable for now so that I can avoid getting locked in to any foundational issues. There are still a number of low-hanging breaking issues blocking the end-to-end usage which I'll need to address.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#50Two weekend projects:
- https://github.com/rcarmo/gotel (an OpenTelemetry tracing collector/UI, under heavy refactoring)
- https://github.com/rcarmo/toadbox (a simple Docker-based agent sandbox to run Toad/OpenCode/Mistral inside, which I've been cleaning up for general use)