Now working on comprehensive benchmarks for another tool I built, https://github.com/sibyllinesoft/scribe. Results thus far showing it reducing agent token usage by ~80% in real world tasks, but I need to repeat to get variance. Hopefully I can get a writeup out soon.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#212A browser extension (Chrome & Firefox) for simplifying my online grocery purchase workflow from Cookidoo to Knuspr.
I was tired of my weekly workflow of copying, pasting & sorting the grocery page for each item.
Also launched my first Hugo blog. Really nice experience so far. Wrote more detailed about the extension as my first blog entry: https://lars147.github.io/blog/
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#213While the official data is technically public, it's practically inaccessible (buried in XML feeds and legacy sites).
Phase 1 was building a modern ingestion engine and freeing the information to make it more accessible. The goal is to make legislative data as accessible as sports stats.
I'm almost ready to launch the MVP; I'm just doing some bugfixes and testing the database now! (If you want an early look at the MVP, my email is in my profile.)
The next phase is what I'm most excited about: visualizing this data and using LLMs to provide insights.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#214Working on finally releasing the programming language I’ve been working on for quite a while. I’m setting up the basic site, which is not a huge deal, but I’ve been inspired by more recent language designers having a streaming presence, so I am working through test runs of streaming my development. I hope to start with demos of the basic language features and then move on to streaming both a reimplementation of my co…
I'm not particularly familiar with array based languages, but are you inspired by them at all? Seems like a similar concept.
What're your goals for the language? It would be cool to see a parallel execution model unify SIMD, multithreading and gpu. I bet people with a lot of money would be interested if you could apply it to ML
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#215With Codebox, you can define workspace templates or load workspace configurations directly from Git repositories. At the moment, it supports Dev Containers and Docker Compose, with plans to expand to additional configuration methods in the future (for example, Terraform).
Below are some resources where you can learn more about the project, including an article that explains how Codebox works and the source repositories (mirrored on both GitHub and GitLab):
* Medium article: https://medium.com/@dadebianchi2003/introducing-codebox-an-o... * GitHub repository: https://github.com/davidebianchi03/codebox * GitLab repository: https://gitlab.com/codebox4073715/codebox
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#216Built 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…
Does this include the "Liked Songs" playlist? I'm terrible at actually following artists.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#217Double TAP is lightweight testing framework where users write black box tests as rules checking output from tested "boxes". Boxes could be anything from http client, web server to messages in syslog. This universal approach allows to test anything with just dropping text rules describing system behavior in black box manner.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#218Platform for apps, currently Lua support ( future WASM). Think like apk (android app) but spk.zip that has server.lua file for backend and htmt/js/css that get served for front end plus platform gives Files, SQLite db (namespaced/scopped access ), Auth, User management All in single static binary Cz go Edit: formatting
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#219Working on finally releasing the programming language I’ve been working on for quite a while. I’m setting up the basic site, which is not a huge deal, but I’ve been inspired by more recent language designers having a streaming presence, so I am working through test runs of streaming my development. I hope to start with demos of the basic language features and then move on to streaming both a reimplementation of my co…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#220I've been working on this for several weeks/months and I'm happy with the result!
Vibe coded it as my programming skills have eroded with time (or they never existed).
I would really appreciate some feedback.