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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)

#461
I am building devlens.io, an open source tool for codebase visualization tool for easy onboarding and easy PR review. The most interesting and loved feature of the tool is blast radius i.e., If I change this component, how far will the effect be propogated ?

github repo if you wanna check : https://github.com/devlensio/devlensOSS website : https://devlens.io

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

#462
Still working on:

- https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - Internet meta database

- https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-feeds - list of Internet feeds

- https://github.com/rumca-js/crawler-buddy - crawling framework

- https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2026 - link meta from year 2026

- https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2025 - link meta from year 2025

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

#464
I'm working on Watch.ly - a remote human-in-the-loop networking and FS sandbox for AI agents like openclaw: https://watch.ly/

Also this week launching https://dirtforever.net/ which is an open alternative to RaceNet Clubs for Dirt Rally 2, since EA is shutting that down.

I'm also expanding the SDK and plugin space for https://fastcomments.com and am planning on adding AI agents because everyone expects that now :) a big challenge is building it in a way that doesn't make half the users mad. So I'm planning on marking any comments left by AI mods with a "bot" tag, and having the system email users on why it made certain decisions, with an option to contest that loops in a real person. I'm hoping this provides value to site owners while not angering real people. The agents could also just do non-invasive things like notify certain moderators when comments violate community standards in some way, or give out awards. I'm also hoping at some point I can run my own hardware for the LLMs so I don't have to share people's data with third parties.

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

#465
A Minecraft Mod that outputs the Stats of the players onto a website (I made it use APIs, so an app or CLI tool would be easy to create later on).

This is my first Minecraft Mod and the first project i made that interacts with the network, has logins/accounts and does APIs.

I am really not good and thus the UI (far worse on mobile) and especially the Code is bad, but i would have never expected to get it working at all, much less this functional. But i am still far from done, i still want to improve the overall code quality, add the inventory and ender chest, achievements (maybe even custom ones so vanilla clients can earn and view them without having to change anything locally. IDK yet) and more.

If someone wants a small demo, i have it running on my server to test while I am developing at: https://grisu-ftp.de (If you find any issues lmk :)

While this is by far not as cool as the other stuff on here i still would like to show it off and gather some first feedback. This is my first Java project that goes above the Standard stuff in school like scanners/calculators and so I have probably done obvious beginner mistakes.

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

#466
Nitor - a discord clone with a shared/federated Identity layer, but self-hosted "servers/guilds". Trust model is to trust the guild server (e.g., so private channels work as one would expect with moderation capabilities), but to enable E2E DMs and friend/presence systems via guild servers as relays. Rust, Iced, Iroh.

Glyphcraft - a Minecraft mod (imagine if Thaumcraft, Ars Nouveau, and Hex Casting were smashed together)

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

#467

I'm building Tela ( https://github.com/paulmooreparks/tela ), a self-hosted relay that tunnels TCP services through encrypted WireGuard connections. The key difference from Tailscale and similar tools is that it requires no TUN adapter, no root access, and no admin privileges on either end. It runs entirely in userspace. My initial motivation was wanting to RDP and SSH into my home workstation from a locked-down corp…

Now that’s cool. I wished I new that when I was trying remote access my computer a few month ago.

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

#468
https://larm.dev, an uptime monitoring service with a focus on reliability and reduction in false positives. I’ve been building it for myself really but I figure it’s worth sharing it with people in case someone else finds it useful too.

It’s also a lot of fun to work on. Phoenix LiveView dashboard, go probes running on 4 continents, connected to the backend using websocket tunnels. Clickhouse for reporting. Even did a CLI and an MCP for fun.

You can take the probes for a spin with the free response time checking tool and see how fast your site is https://larm.dev/tools/response-time

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

#469
I've been working on https://game-pick.eu , a website for friends to easily decide on games to play together. It is voting-based and can show who has which game in their library to see who would yet have to buy it. I'm planning on adding features for finding new friends to play with also. It's my first real web project, so I'm excited how it will go.

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

#470
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Trying to figure out how to get a job in this market for someone with sub 3 YoE in the industry :/ It's hard out there for juniors, y'all. I'm working at a company that I thought I could stay for years in, but my CTO left and now I'm shafted with basically all of their responsibilities - I'm not overly perturbed by this, as it's well within my ability, but I would much rather spend the next few years as an IC and rea…

To be honest it sounds like you hit the jackpot there.

You say this is a company you could see yourself working at for some time, and have been handed C suite level responsibility that you can handle. So seemingly you are content and able to handle the work load.

Learning to be a IC is something anyone can do given time, but learning to be a manager can only be learned by being on the job, if you are able to get it in the first place.

Now is really not a good time to jump ship, unless you know for certain that the new position is going to be stable.

Grab the opportunity, do a good job and perhaps study how to be a better IC in your free time. You'll come out on the other side with skills and experiences that many in this field will be missing.

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