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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)

#141
Been working on https://searchcode.com/ again which I bought back, albeit as code search tool for LLMs. It solves the “should I use this library” by allowing the LLM to inspect search and analyse it before integration. Can use it to compare multiple repositories before downloading. It comes with a large amount of token savings and can be really useful when wanting to learn about a codebase.

Since it does it anyway I added dossier pages to it as well https://searchcode.com/repo/github.com/rust-lang/rust Which is useful for humans, and shows what the system is creating.

Best part is that I get to use the tools I have built, so https://github.com/boyter/scc and https://github.com/boyter/cs to improve it which benefits anyone using those tools.

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

#143
A desktop client for Repomix. Repomix is a CLI which allows you to summarize all the code in a repo in one txt or md file so you can in turn feed it to an AI model for analysis. It absolutely gets the job done it its current state, but it is a personal project so there may be a few rough edges.

https://github.com/KevanMacGee/Repomix-Desktop

It's open source and has no official connection to Repomix. But the developer, yamadashy on Github, knows about it and seemed to like it enough to add it to the Repomix website under the community projects.

I like being able to paste all the code into a browser window and have lengthy discussions with ChatGPT, Gemini and GLM. Doing so in the browser saves tokens over doing it in Cursor or Codex. I like using the Projects feature in ChatGPT in the browser and Notebooks with Gemini because that gives the model context and history on whatever I am working on. It was one part scratching my own itch, one part learning about Python and Customtinker.

It's made specifically for when you just want to get the code and paste it, no muss or fuss. It doesn't have support for flags (yet?) like the CLI because again it is built for speed. Besides, when I want flags, I like using the CLI instead to get granular. Repomix Desktop is for "just give me the code."

I'm a self taught coder so I'm very open to feedback.

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

#144
I am working on Desiderata (https://github.com/github-of-NMI/Desiderata).

An LLM benchmark for open-weight models only, with secret questions.

The questions are asked multiple times to calculate a consistency score.

The results are available in JSON, containing the hash of the question with the number of correct and incorrect answers, the number of unique answers, and the number of times no answer is given. (Uses \boxed{})

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

#146

I'm building Deptheos ( https://github.com/ryanmitts/deptheos ), a photography/macro focus stacking program. It works on MacOS, built with Swift and Metal. My goal is to make a super fast, and free, focus stacking program. I provided a notarized MacOS DMG for the initial release, but if built yourself, it will run on an M4/M5 series iPad Pro as well. The core ability I wanted was to support RAW files as inputs, with…

Very cool! Do you know Thomas Shahan's work? He once contributed his woodcut artwork to a videogame, so he does seem very technically curious. I bet he'd be interested in trying something like this out with his own work and providing feedback...

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

#149
We're working on Drawers (https://drawers.computer), a macOS app to give each of your projects its own dock, space, and windows.

We integrate with macOS spaces to switch out a project-specific dock on each space, containing only the resources you need for that project. We made it possible to add granular resources instead of full apps to the dock (think specific slack channels instead of the whole slack app), to keep the dock hyper focused on what you need.

We built this to stay focused while working on the computer, and we thought that the native interface mixed all our projects together, causing us to get distracted.

Looking for beta testers! Free download from https://drawers.computer

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