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

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

#191
I have been working on a Monte Carlo financial planning / retirement scenario simulation with a TUI interface.

All written in rust. The simulation engine has been solid for a while and the TUI is finally starting to expose all of the options needed to really configure a complete simulation.

https://github.com/jgrazian/finplan

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

#193
Experimenting with visual/audio combinations to explore aspects of a space dataset I’ve been having lots of fun with. Added in a LLM chat view with Duck DB WASM as well to try out tool use - text to SQL seems to be relatively solved with a light semantic layer; some interesting optimization around what tools to expose and result handling that need some more iteration.

https://greenmtnboy.github.io/space_reporting/

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

#195
post #157

A Jellyfin music client for Linux written in Rust and GTK: https://github.com/Fingel/gelly I thought it would be pretty simple, but here I am almost 6 months later still adding features. The positive feedback has been nice, though! People seem to appreciate (like I do) that its fast and doesn't use Electron or some other cross platform toolkit. Learning a lot. It's not vibe coded. Sad that I have to make that qualifi…

Nice, thanks! I’ve been looking for a decent alternative to PlexAmp for Jellyfin.

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

#196
https://radius.to/ - a Meetup.com alternative of sorts - with fairer organiser pricing for smaller groups. I posted a Show HN [1] here a while back, got tons of great feedback, and have been slowly improving it since, with little marketing. Planning a re-launch here soon.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717398

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

#197
Hi, I’m splitting my time between multi-cloud governance and optimizing my "vibe coding" workflow: Kexa (https://kexa.io)

An open-source multi-cloud governance framework powered by a YAML rule engine. We just reached a milestone by adding Database (DB) support.

The goal is to allow developers to audit configuration and compliance directly within DB instances, alongside standard cloud resources (AWS, GCP, Azure, K8s). We’re focusing on keeping the YAML rules as agnostic as possible so the same logic can apply across different environments without rewriting everything. rtk (https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk)

This is a "scratching my own itch" project born from using Claude-code. While vibe coding, I got frustrated watching the agent spam ls -al or cat repeatedly just to "orient" itself.

It creates two main issues:

    The Token Tax: It burns through tokens for info the agent already has.

    Context Pollution: The context window fills up with redundant noise.
rtk acts as a CLI wrapper/filter to make LLM interactions more signal-to-noise efficient. It silences or summarizes redundant outputs so the agent only receives the necessary "delta." It’s a simple attempt to keep the context clean and make sessions last longer before the agent loses the plot.

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

#198
I'm working on lots of projects. My favorite is what I call "context bonsai" where I'm giving LLM harnesses the ability to surgically edit the context. It's available as a tool. You can say "remove that failed debugging session and write a summary of what we learned." Or you can take a more hands-on approach and say "remove messages msg_ID1 through msg_ID2". The removal leaves a summary and keywords, and the original messages can be pulled back into context if the LLM thinks they're useful.

I would really like people to try it out and report bugs, failures, and successes.

https://github.com/Vibecodelicious/opencode/blob/surgical_co...

I'm currently trying to get the LLM to be more proactive about removing content that is no longer useful in order to stay ahead of autocompaction and also just to keep the context window small and focused in general.

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

#200
Minimalist Podcast player with gPodder sync focused on iOS ecosystem. (WatchOS/CarPlay/AirPlay). YourPods is a gPodder-compatible, privacy-first, and self-hosted podcast player. Sync your subscriptions and listening progress across all your devices using your own Nextcloud server, manage multiple profiles, and keep your data 100% yours. https://github.com/asecretcompany/yourpods-source
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