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

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

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I'm continuing to hack on Tiled Words, my daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com After winning the Playlin Player's Choice award I've noticed an uptick in players as well as some people sharing videos on YouTube which has been fun. I've got a few thousand people playing every day. I just launched user accounts today so user's can now track their progress across devices and share their stats with each other. This e…

This is great!

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

#222
Right now Im working on so many thigs, but none of them as interesting as the things that other people here do.

I manage a small store (https://amigurumis.com.mx) for my SO and im dropping Elementor (too expensive) to use only Gutenberg. Turns out that it is pretty good for simple sites.

Im having some sucess developing new websites for people who cant afford it, or who never though about having one, so i created one for an accountant (https://contadoranual.com) using only WordPress.

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

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My mother is living alone in her house and we are getting to the point where she might not be able to live alone. I built "Still Kicking", a picture frame that monitors her motion and sends back basic reports and can detect falls and sleep quality to a phone app, to help give her more time at home.

It's just an mmWave sensor connected to an ESP32. But it works nicely, and I'm thinking of starting a company making them, though I'm not clear if the elderly would be ok with this minimal (no camera) intrusion.

It would just work out of the box.. the real one would have a small cell modem so it wouldn't need any networking setup, and it would act as a gateway if you have more than one in a house. There are industrial versions of this for nursing homes. This would be a bit more warm and fuzzy for home use.

https://moveometer.com

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

#224
I’ve been working on modernizing https://thelounge.chat, a self-hostable web based IRC client

Modernizing in two ways: migrating to new JS tooling (webpack -> vite, Node’s built in sqlite, etc) and adopting ircv3 features like emoji reactions, threaded replies, and typing indicators. Trying to bring IRC into the 21st century.

Its easy to contribute to and we have an active irc channel (perks of building an always-on client…) - feel free to join us! #thelounge on irc.libera.chat

Check out the bundle / CPU savings by leaving webpack: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/pull/5064

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

#227
A runtime for a long-lived LLM agent with ambient continuous self-perception, persistent memory, defined authority, domain-specific autonomy, and forensic accountability, all in a long ongoing relationship with a human. I call this type of system an Artificial Retainer, a non-human cross between a guide dog and someone like your accountant or lawyer. It is not designed to be your friend, but it could be a valuable colleague. Think of this as an attempt to build a trusted stable agent with a stable character that could last decades.

https://github.com/seamus-brady/springdrift

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04660

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

#228
The most recent project I’ve been working through has been a tool for JSON query evaluation and debugging [0] inspired by how easy regex101 is to use.

I couldn’t find any that were as nice or as powerful to use for writing JSONPath queries, so instead of spending an hour crafting and testing them manually, I spent >40 hours building this tool to save myself half an hour.

[0]: https://jsonpath101.com/

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

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post #223

My mother is living alone in her house and we are getting to the point where she might not be able to live alone. I built "Still Kicking", a picture frame that monitors her motion and sends back basic reports and can detect falls and sleep quality to a phone app, to help give her more time at home. It's just an mmWave sensor connected to an ESP32. But it works nicely, and I'm thinking of starting a company making the…

I would buy it. I have built a similar contraption. Let's connect.

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

#230
They say programming is dead... I built an AI Streamer platform that responds to a twitch chat

https://slidebits.com/ai-streamer

Not a trivial thing to vibe code without any domain expertise but this project took me under 2 weeks with a AI coding agent harness I built myself. I use Gemini 3 Flash as my main driver as well.

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