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

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

#94
I’m building a small map application that allows me/friends/family to explore data overlays about morel mushrooms phenology and habitat (ground temp/moisture/terrain/aspect/tree species/etc) in our area. There’s some lightweight forecasting and timing models to help guess at near-term fruiting. I had a big push about a mouth ago to tighten things up, and initial experiences in the field this year have been very promising.

I’ll keep chipping away at it this year, and probably expand beyond morels to other seasonal natural phenomena that my people enjoy like smelt/salmon run, wildflower blooms, etc.

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

#95
A timelapse platform powered by community photos. The idea is to place a mount and QR code at fixed viewpoints around the neighbourhood. People scan, photograph the view, optionally add their name, and submit. Over time, the platform stitches those shots into a living record of how the place changes with seasons.

Just finished the software side using a boring technology and am about to order the materials for the first few locations. Curious to explore photo alignment once real submissions start coming in. Stitching all slightly different angled photos into a smooth animation seems interesting.

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

#96
post #81

I do calisthenics 3×/week plus Ironman 70.3 prep, which means my training lives across Garmin, Polar, Withings + FIT files and front-lever sessions that no mainstream app models. So I built one that does both (and have been using for the past 4 years+): logs custom strength moves (front lever, FLAC, ¾ pull-ups), aggregates the connected devices (Polar, Garmin, Suunto, Withings, Apple Health) into one weekly view. Cur…

Why so many different devices? (Assuming this is the only reason there could be this much sprawl)

Device based strength tracking is still so weird to me.

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

#97
I’m working on a ground-up implementation of RADIUS with everything running on stateless compute. It’s a beast with many problems to solve but I have EAP-TLS, TTLS and PEAP all working. I’d love to connect with folks interested in this kind of thing.

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

#98

A timelapse platform powered by community photos. The idea is to place a mount and QR code at fixed viewpoints around the neighbourhood. People scan, photograph the view, optionally add their name, and submit. Over time, the platform stitches those shots into a living record of how the place changes with seasons. Just finished the software side using a boring technology and am about to order the materials for the fir…

Love the idea!

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

#100
I can't really go into details of what I am working on. But I'd like to say that a lot of European corporations are running their stuff on Azure and are very much interested in having Data Lake(house) platforms tailor made to their business and IT requirements based on Databricks and their stack. I mention this because I find this mismatch of what I see being relevant in business and what is being upvoted on Hackernews quite interesting (for the lack of a better word).
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