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

#721
I built a CLI tool in rust to find and remove duplicate files.

At work I sometimes download the same file multiple times to my machine and have to go through my downloads folder and manually remove the duplicates, so this is something I built to speed up the process of doing this.

https://github.com/jconvery1/hydra

I've found it quite useful.

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

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I'm working on a language learning framework based on the ideas of comprehensible input and spaced repetition learning. The idea is you take a book you want to read, and it gets translated but also rewritten to match your current learning level. And as you read/listen it introduces new words to learn, reinforced by spaced repetition. We're taking a trip to France this summer and I'm hoping to have something usable fo…

That sounds really interesting. I have a similar project, albiet pretty small. I want to generate comprehsnible input stories for the user say with 98% known words and 2% unknown words. Instead of rewriting stories though, I thought of having compiled list of books with say a book's top 1000 common but unique words, then you can add it to your desk and have those be generated in stories. That way once you complete the deck, it will be a lot easier to read your target book. I was looking into using numPy for that, not sure if you are using Python but it might be worth looking into.

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

#723

I'm a solo dev building a handful of apps across different niches.. - Kvile ( https://kvile.app ) — A lightweight desktop HTTP client built with Rust + Tauri. Native .http file support (JetBrains/VS Code/Kulala compatible), Monaco editor, JS pre/post scripts, SQLite-backed history. Sub-second startup. MIT licensed, no cloud, your requests stay on your machine. Think Postman without the bloat and login walls. - Mockin…

> MyVisualRoutine ...

> All apps i found were either shit, real shit, or didnt solve my personal need.

Wow, what an amazing coincidence. I made something that looks pretty similar from the looks of it just a few weeks ago because I found the same thing. If I knew your app existed I probably wouldn't have made it. I wasn't even thinking of selling it, just made it for my kid because it makes following various daily routines easier.

It's a mostly vibe coded (well, I made tons of visual and technical decisions but didn't look at the code much except some spot checks) PWA that can run offline on an iPod Touch.

It has some quirks and hidden features for day schedules, timers, etc.

There's plenty of yank in there (yours is almost certainly built better) but it works pretty well for most daily routines.

You can check it out here: https://girls-routine-planner.huppie.nl/

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

#724

I built a CLI tool in rust to find and remove duplicate files. At work I sometimes download the same file multiple times to my machine and have to go through my downloads folder and manually remove the duplicates, so this is something I built to speed up the process of doing this. https://github.com/jconvery1/hydra I've found it quite useful.

I built a CLI years ago for the same purpose.

From what I can tell, your program treats files as duplicates if they share the same normalized filename and the exact same size; it doesn’t compare contents or hashes.

Mine samples bytes at specific positions, hashes those samples, and compares the hashes to produce a similarity score rather than a strict match. This works great for photos, two shots taken in the same second can differ slightly in pixels but still depict the same scene, so they’re considered duplicates. It also normalizes image orientation by rotating based on the brightest corner, so photos in different orientations are compared using the same features.

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

#725
My friend and I have been working on https://www.vespper.com its essentially an ai-native word editor for long-form content.

it comes with a suite of tools (multi-agent tools to do search over many docs, RAG out of the box, prompt generation per section to reduce context drift, granular AI steerability, structured block generations for 100+ page reports ect.)

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

#726
I’m working on an app builder that combines a Figma-like canvas for design with Apple Shortcuts-style logic for functionality. Instead of writing code or connecting node graphs, you define behavior by stacking instructions using a syntax based on Hyperscript.

You can try the editor here (no signup required): https://app.breadboards.io/playgrounds/weather

And here is a live app exported from it: https://late-cat-2043.breadboards.app

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

#727

I'm a solo dev building a handful of apps across different niches.. - Kvile ( https://kvile.app ) — A lightweight desktop HTTP client built with Rust + Tauri. Native .http file support (JetBrains/VS Code/Kulala compatible), Monaco editor, JS pre/post scripts, SQLite-backed history. Sub-second startup. MIT licensed, no cloud, your requests stay on your machine. Think Postman without the bloat and login walls. - Mockin…

Love this! Had the same idea as Mockingjay for emergency situations where you don’t have time to upload, e.g. robberies, attacks, etc… will give it a try!

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

#728
post #167

A personal finance app called “Predictable” that takes chaotic sloshes of money and turns them into steady streams of cash. You tell it “I receive this much money weekly/monthly/on the first and fifteenth/when Mercury is in retrograde, and I have these expenses at other various intervals” and it evens everything out into a constant weekly flow of cash by, essentially, buffering. Any overflow or underflow goes to a “m…

I'd love something like that, with the added ability to basically split the margin bucket into multiple buckets (one for me, one for the wife).

The main issue I've had with budgeting apps continues to be pulling in up-to-date transaction data, which is necessary to know how much I can spend right now. There always seems to be problems with the data syncing. Apple Card is the worst, as you can only pull transactions via wallet on device.

I wish we could just use a single bank account at the Fed. The banking network is absolutely shit and there's basically a 1% tax on everything that goes to the rich for no good reason.

Budgeting was soooo much easier with cash – it's maddening all the data is there for real-time personal finance but it can't be accessed.

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

#729

I'm building DB Pro, a cross-platform database management app that lets you browse, query, and manage SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and more from a single native interface. It's been growing steadily with a community of ~1,400 subscribers on YouTube and paying users. What I'm most excited about right now is DB Pro Studio: a collaborative web-based version I'm building on top of it. The idea is simple: da…

It's fascinating to me that people are still making money on RDBMS UIs in 2026. Maybe there's hope for my markdown notes app after all?
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