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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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Post by dewey »

thedevindevops wrote: post #755
dewey wrote: post #122

Over the holidays I was building a wooden birdhouse with a Unifi Protect camera and a small web interface that automatically identifies the birds and shows me a simple overview over which type of bird visited how many times. Birdhouse: https://img.notmyhostna.me/cRQ1gJfZCHjQKwFrgKQj UI: - https://img.notmyhostna.me/Hnw4qcvbg1ZQCrFxzGMn - https://img.notmyhostna.me/62TFwSXSRRbCfxDz297h - https://img.notmyhostna.me/40q…

Fab job, did spark one question though, Re: face labeling, are you trying to to get a model to identify specific individuals of a species?

I've thought about it and it would make the whole project even cooler with actual stats of "birdhouse regulars" not just in aggregated form but I don't know if it's possible and if bird faces have enough unique features to differentiate them?

Right now I only use it so that my thumbnails of pictures from the camera are centered on the head in the UI as I couldn't find a pre-existing model that does it for animals. I'm thinking that maybe having this data set of a few hundred bird faces will allow me to train a small one in the future to do it more automatically. If not...I at least learned something new about building models!

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

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Post by pedropaulovc »

potamic wrote: post #685
pedropaulovc wrote: post #351

CodjiFlo[1,2] - a code review tool inspired by Microsoft's CodeFlow, used by ~40,000 developers. It is especially tailored to power users of pull requests to improve contextual understanding and ease of code review and collaboration. [1] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/codjiflo/ [2] https://codjiflo.vza.net

No way to see without signing in with github? The sign-in also appears to be broken.

Thanks for checking it out. It should be possible in the future, I haven't explored what GitHub APIs are available for logged out users. It's not my main focus now because I want to nail the capabilities for repo contributors, who do code reviews most often and will need be authenticated to post comments.

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

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Post by redblacktree »

tjwebbnorfolk wrote: post #459

I've spent the past ~year compiling a US nationwide land parcel dataset. I posted it to kaggle a few days ago: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-laye... . I'm around 99% coverage of the US. Learned a lot about land records and GIS along the way.

"Please note that this dataset is for noncommercial use only" -- quite limiting. Are you planning to create a product?

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

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Post by bobbiechen »

I'm very excited to be interviewing people who are creating interesting things with software for upcoming blog stuff at digitalseams.com !

As I've grown older, I've found myself more interested in people and their stories and motivations - especially as I know a bunch of people who are technically skilled, but feel unable or unworthy to create instead of consuming. So it's inspiring to hear really great creators talk about those same burdens and how they overcome them.

If this sparks your interest shoot me an email at bobbie @ (site above in comment)

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

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Post by lightning19 »

rmonvfer wrote: post #751
lightning19 wrote: post #710

I'm taking on Vercel and Render with a zero config cloud hosting platform. So far we have: - connect your github and deploy from web/cli/vs code/cursor - static sites automatically detected and deployed on a CDN - logging - encrypted env vars - built in monitoring - custom domains - auto deployments from new branches or commits - multi-branch deployments

I’d love to test it!

Thanks I'd appreciate it, I will send you an email once we launch :)

Hoping to launch in the next 2 weeks, we're busy deciding on a name and domain.

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

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Post by devrundown »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #746
devrundown wrote: post #464

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's amazing. I've been looking at getting my first fish tank lately with my kids. Seems like a lot to learn. Any tips for a newbie?

If your first fish tank is just going to be something small with a goldfish or two in it, I'm not sure how you go about doing that as I've not done that before. Maybe you just fill the tank from the tap and chuck the fish in? I decided to go for a large planted heated freshwater tank with interesting fish and shrimps and snails, so I had to be careful to monitor the water and find out what species could co-exist, wha…

Thanks for the advice!

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

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Post by iccananea »

I'm working on ripbox, a prototype cd player / ripper that than rip your CDs while you listen to them, back them up and then make them available for streaming anywhere.

My cousin has a large collection of CDs and the player is being built around his listening habits (listening to disk from start to finsh at home, individual tracks when on the go).

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

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Post by kasrak »

Have been working on Lightpage for the past ~18 months. It's a personal notes app that "writes back" using LLMs.

Before this, I dumped all my personal notes, ideas, journal entries, etc into Apple Notes -- I liked the simplicity. But as LLMs get smarter, I wanted to have them read my notes and proactively help move things forward.

Right now most of the early users use it as a journal. On a whim I shipped a feature a few months ago where the LLM writes you a "letter" every Sunday based on the past week's notes. That's ended up being a really popular feature.

https://lightpage.com

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

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Post by starwatch »

drekipus wrote: post #646
starwatch wrote: post #102

https://www.votivus.org A hobby project I started putting together late last year; a little spot on the internet for prayer and reflection. https://dugnad.stavanger-digital.no/ A pro bono tech consultancy for local non profits. The idea is to help them use tech to better deliver on their mission.

this is beautiful, thank you :)

Thank you!
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