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

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

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I'm working on https://fullremote.it, which started as a side project and is now turning into a real business.

It's an "italian-oriented" curated remote-jobs and remote-work community, currently ~10k subscribers across newsletter and Telegram. What began as "let's share good remote roles" is evolving into paid job postings, sponsorships, and coaching for companies and devs.

Do you know you can hire remotely in Italy?

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

#332

I’m working on a small iOS app for streaming my own media directly from a NAS. I built it because I wanted access to my music (and videos) on my phone without running a full media server like Plex or Jellyfin, and without syncing files locally. The app streams files directly over a VPN (WireGuard / Tailscale), mainly via SFTP/FTP, and plays them as-is without re-encoding or server-side indexing. You can browse folder…

Is it something similar to Infuse but with audio support?

Yes, roughly but audio-first and serverless.

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

#333

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice one. But the graph view seems broken? And for the data, it would be nice to have the original URL for each comment as a reference.

Thanks! Is it that you can't see the graph view at all? It uses DeckGL which might be a bit too fancy and may not work on all browsers possibly. It works on Chrome/Safari on my iPhone and Chrome on Arch. I didn't realize that you actually could provide a working link back to Hacker News but it seems HN does support that. Thanks, I will give that a try!

https://imgur.com/a/EmtADiA

This how the graph looks like, not clustered by tag or anything ... (I was expecting a view like Logseq or Obsidian)

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

#334

I'm branching out and trying something ridiculously different than anything else I've ever done before, I'm gonna try to create a video game that plays on people's sexual attractions, and tries to distract them while the player tries to complete a series of challenges/activities. It'll be like a little laboratory experiment, with NSFW graphics and the player having to remain focused while other things try to distract…

Interesting idea... I could see this working as therapy

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

#335
You know how Spotify (or any other service) will just silently remove tracks from your playlist because they lost the rights? No notification, a beloved song just disappeared from your life.

Building a webapp to keep track of your playlists and notify you when a song disappears

https://github.com/thehappyidiot/save-my-music

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

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I’m genetically engineering yeasts to make subtly flavored breads. I’ve already done grape aroma, now working on wintergreen. Also working on a red chamomile (using beat red biosynthesis). Just for fun. Red chamomile tea! The idea is to have niche invite-only genetically engineered flavors that I can bring to parties around SF :) what’s more special than a genetically engineered organism that you can ONLY get if I’m…

This is so cool. Also, it sounds like a cheeky plot to a zombie apocalypse or global contagion movie.

How subtle are the flavors? Unsubtle enough that an oblivious taster might ask, "Does this bread taste like grapes to anyone else here?" Or does one need guidance to search for the flavor?

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

#337

You know how Spotify (or any other service) will just silently remove tracks from your playlist because they lost the rights? No notification, a beloved song just disappeared from your life. Building a webapp to keep track of your playlists and notify you when a song disappears https://github.com/thehappyidiot/save-my-music

Support for Youtube playlists please... having to lookup the watch ID on Google after a song is removed to guess what the track was is a highly sucky part of using Youtube for music.

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

#338
Over the holidays I built MakersHub.dev – a community platform for developers and creators building with AI tools. Whether you're a complete beginner exploring AI coding for the first time or an experienced professional showcasing advanced work, the goal is to have something useful: learning guides, project showcases, discussions, a tools directory, and news. Still early but actively building it out. https://makershub.dev

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

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post #324

I built a way to chat with the documents in this post (updates live). https://nthesis.ai/public/702445eb-f0e4-4730-b34f-f34eb06dd6... Or you can do a basic text search: https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-working-on

What LLM do you use for this? Self hosted or cloud?

This uses the OpenAI API currently. I tried Gemini for embeddings for a little while but didn't seem materially better.

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

#340

I've been experimenting with using LLMs for a content recommender system. Specifically I've built a news reader app that fetches news articles from multiple RSS feeds, uses an LLM to first deduplicate and then score them. The user can then rate the articles and those ratings are used as few-shot examples in the LLM scoring prompt. Any resulting low score articles (uninteresting to the user) are hidden by default and…

Ive been working on something similar, have you had any issues with the LLM not giving you back a full response for all the input? Ive been using Chat gpt but even on the same request sometimes id give it 20 things to rank, and Id just get back 3 results
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