Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

Adding new openly licensed learning resources to the Kolibri offline learning platform. It is designed to be deployed in communities that lack consistent access to the public internet. They currently have a significant amount of English language content, but are limited in what they have available in the dozens of other languages they have translated the core software into. I'm trying to bring in new resources and then try to lead an effort to do translations of the best materials I can find to make the platform more useful to more people.

https://community.learningequality.org/t/bringing-new-comput...

Also trying to recruit people to teach tech newbies how to build their own handheld video game consoles. Let me know if you might like to run a class where you live and i'll share my class materials.

https://community.arduboy.com/t/looking-for-instructors-to-t...

i love this and have been a long time complainer that browsers dont automatically operate this way.

how does it handle forms or homepages with refreshed content? for example, the home page of hackernews - will it always show the latest feed from the last time i had a connection or will it store each time ive visited it ?

I'm working on a Chess improvement app https://blunders.ai.

The main goal is letting people analyze their games and improve by studying their blunders. It uses stockfish and AI for analysis. You can chat with your games like "Why would I do ___ instead of this?"

Also, there are the standard puzzles and openings type learning with improvement plans.

I'm working on a Nix-based task runner - like `just` or `mise-en-place`, but defined using a Nix flake and run using a Go CLI.

https://github.com/RedbackThomson/nix-tasks

I started this project because at my company, we're still relying on ancient Makefiles as our build system and build tool versioning. I initially looked at using other task runners but they all use some sort of DSL that I think limits their functionality and/or doesn't allow for sharing and extending templates across repos. Nix-tasks lets you use Nix flakes to share common configuration - like your company-wide build scripts - and then import it and add repo specific tasks on top of them.

The project is still very much in alpha but I am using it every day and trying to find any annoyances or bugs before I share it further.

Working on a Vercel-like cloud hosting PaaS, but specifically tailored to South Africa. Everything is hosted on local servers, and pricing is ZAR instead of USD. It's called Zanode if you want to check it out :)

https://www.zanode.co.za/