As a pathologist and neuro-oncology researcher, to save myself time trying to keep up with scientific literature, I'm working on https://www.summarized.science/ . Based topics of interest (suggestions are more than welcome), the tool queries the scientific literature for each month. Then, by quering some LLMs, it extracts themes and summaries. The tool already saves me time in my day to day life, but still needs a lot of finishing touches to promote actively. Anyhow, it is a lot of time working on a web development "side project" after a hiatus of more than a decade due to residency/PhD-program/kids etc. Input/feedback is more than welcome.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
591–600 of 914 posts
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#592Training AI models on videos of drones scrapped from public sources. Everyone in Europe is building ani drone systems and nobody has real data. Lots of companies operating on synthetics only. Lots of work to automatically filter and process scraped footage into something that will train well.
Mentally that sounds like a grim project
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#593I work on my iOS app - Weblock Browser, a restricted browser for kids with strong parental controls: https://weblock.online
Recently I've added AI classification of websites to determine if a website is safe for a child to visit. If AI disallows a website, you can ask your parent to allow it.
To give AI some context about a website, I used Cloudflare Intel API - it returns domain content categories, very handy to provide them to AI to help it make a decision.
But turns out Cloudflare Intel has a ridiculous limit of 100 requests PER MONTH for non-Enterprise users.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#594Aged Care Mate
https://AgedCareMate.com.au
It’s a modern way to navigate and find home care providers in Australia. We built it after working in the industry and seeing families struggle a lot with navigating the complex aged care system (at a time in their lives which is already very stressful).
It’s very early days but it has been very enjoyable to think back on all the issues and pain points we saw in our careers and build solutions around these.
Hopefully it helps some Aussies and their parents with staying in their own home, and in feeling more confident with the decisions they make through the journey.
The stack is: Nuxt for the front-end, Postgres, and FastAPI for the backend. We set up Zoho instead of Microsoft or Google Workspace and it’s been very smooth so far (and more cost effective).
One fun part of the dev work has been learning all the magic of PostGIS - if you ever have an idea that involves geospatial data or maps, go ahead and try build it with PostGIS in the db.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#595I hate all the portfolio tracking tools out there + don't understand why tools like FactSet or CapitalIQ cost so much.
... so I'm building an open source version.
Track all your trades in Excel, and get Sharpe ratios, Sortino ratios, or even pass it on to an LLM to have it recommend trades based on news feeds.
Planning to open source it in the next week or two, once I add the proper tests and docs! :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#596Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bug on home page: "Ask TechPosts.eu: Is there an EU Cloudflare alternative? I'm interested in CDN, DDoS mitigation and basic web security." Links to https://techposts.eu/post/153 "3 comments" below it links to https://techposts.eu/post/154 It looks like the latter is correct. I would have sent feedback direct, but I can't see an about page or anything.
Thanks! Will have a look.
I could reproduce it as well. Firefox/Mac OS with ublock origin and all in browser privacy options on.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#597I am working on the «ultimate dev ex» CMS: https://val.build/docs
GitHub: https://github.com/valbuild/val
Intro video: https://youtu.be/83bnYGIsm5g?si=5LN7dxnARrS4jNEx
What sets it apart is that it 1) stores content in TS / JS files 2) is a fully fledged CMs. It is designed to be nice to work with from the start a project (and the structure of your app changes all the time) -> when everyone works on individual PRs -> to the end when the project is decommissioned.
It needs no cloud APIs, no DBs nor caching. No query language to learn. No sign up to get started. It is fully TypeSafe and needs no type generation. You can rename and refactor content from you IDE. It works amazingly with Cursor and friends (local content and schema + strong typesafty + validation)
Currently reqs are: Nextjs and GitHub.
APIs are pretty stable. UI is in the process of a revamp. Will do a proper show hn some time in the near future.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#598I am working on a very simple browser extension that allows you to take notes right on youtube. It is open source, offline and everything is locally stored. Here are the links. Chrome store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-notes/phgnkid... Firefox store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-notes-f... I actually would love some feedbacks and suggestions from someone here :)
The pages don't really show how to export the notes.
Ahh yes, I will add a screenshot in the next update. Thanks you.
If you have not found it, you need to click on the extension icon, and then click on gear icon. There you will find the option to export.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#599Recently on my blog: https://bryanhogan.com/blog Wrote an introduction to Obsidian referencing other relevant posts, but also keeping it simple. And the post before that was about creating an app using SvelteKit + Capacitor. Currently working on some posts about AI coding and my life in Osaka after 3 months here. Other things I'm working on: - https://dailyselftrack.com/ - Got into working on it again, mainly solving…
Really enjoying reading you blog posts. Currently taking notes into my own Obsidian instance based on your post “Obsidian vault setup tour”
Thanks for sharing
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#600Working on https://thepassword.app
It's a macOS desktop application that uses browser agents to update your old and compromised passwords.
It started off a side project for myself after running into a compromised password email. Since then, I've expanded it into a macOS app + chrome extension for navigation. It's been so much fun building this application, learning about AI agent management while enforcing security/privacy best practices. I've re-written this app 4 times from scratch before launching it a couple weeks ago. Please check it out and let me know what you think!