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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)

#351
I'm building my take on a static site generator.

https://get-taxus-org.pages.dev

It's inspired by Zola, but has better documentation and will hopefully be more approachable when all is said and done. I'm trying to incorporate WebAssembly, with Yew, to give "islands" for high performance stuff you might want where WebAssembly makes sense. For example, I wrote search from the ground up, and built a search widget using Yew.

You can also just write JavaScript if you want.

It's a total work in progress, but I'm enjoying what I've built so far.

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

#353
Working on Kernel, a GSAT vocab study app for Taiwanese students. A lot of exam prep still means paying cram schools for structure and linear repetition. We’re trying to turn that structure into software that knows what you’re about to forget and what to review next.

app store: https://apps.apple.com/tw/app/kernel-%E8%83%8C%E5%96%AE%E5%A...

viral launch post that brought in ~1700 users in 2 days: https://www.threads.com/@sean_hsu_13/post/DW8nBzDjV8T?xmt=AQ...

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

#355
I've been vibe coding a cross platform desktop app targeting bird photographers, that uses photo metadata and vision ML models to generate an eBird checklist formatted CSV for importing. It can detect and classify many birds in a single photo as well as individual birds. https://github.com/jkanethird/rackery

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

#356
I’ve started streaming programming on Twitch and YouTube live.

Used to do it for friends only, but been publishing publicly since recently and it’s fun.

“Senior dev, junior attitude”

https://youtube.com/@harlybarluy

https://twitch.tv/harlybarluy

Spent 3h today adding a “system” filter to jq only to find out there are like seventeen PRs for this going back ten years. T_T I live but I don’t learn.

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

#357
I'm working on the wolrd model action (WMA) model, which is used to replace Visual Language Action (VLA) model to bridge the physical world with LLM.

Now I've done my basic researching part, but I'm lack of the courage to dive into this topic. After all, it's a really hard work to it.

So I'm just, you know, scrolling the HN and trying to sharpen my brain and get back to the work.

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

#358

I've been writing a 'book' (more of an extended blog post that I'd like to put out for free) attempting to explain quantum computing to a layman-ish audience. I sort of got inspired to do this after seeing so many QC PR posts on HN, and finding the educational material in this space to be either too academic, too narrow in scope, or totally facile. I think given the incredible hype (and potential promise) of this ind…

Awesome! Anywhere we can look for updates, like a website?

FWIW, my shallow understanding of quantum computing as a programmer, in case you wanted perspectives from your potential audience:

- I thought quantum physics was a sham? Like on par with string theory. But apparently that's not true

- I hear QC only breaks certain kinds of cryptography algorithms (involving factoring big primes?), and that we can upgrade to more foolproof algorithms.

- I hear that one of the main challenges is improving error bounds? I'm not sure how error is involved and how it can be wrangled to get a deterministic or useful result

- Idk what a qubit is or how you make one or how you put several together

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

#359
Deploy to your own AWS account with minimal config!

  - Any containerized app, uses Fargate (no Kubernetes)
  - Heroku-like CLI tool with instant console sessions
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