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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)

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Post by marking-time »

seydar wrote: post #243

Acoustic diagnosis of electrical problems on the electric grid! I'm building a tool that allows you to determine the health of an electric transformer from only your phone. It tells you: - the loading - the health of the windings and core - and whether the phases are unbalanced I used to be a submariner, so my professional background is in power plants and sonar analysis, so I'm getting to combine the two in this. Ac…

This sounds (pun intended) really cool. nettirw yb namuh

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

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Post by samlaycock »

A few OSS projects:

- NookJS: a Javascript/Typescript interpreter and sandbox written in Typescript (https://nookjs.dev)

- Litz: a thin React meta framework that uses RSC as purely a server transport, allowing for more flexible client/server architectures (https://litzjs.dev)

- Nativite: a Vite plugin for building for native platforms using web technologies, with a custom plugin/platform support (https://github.com/samlaycock/nativite)

- superformdata: superjson but for FormData/URLSearchParams (https://github.com/samlaycock/superformdata)

- NoSQL ODM: ODM for various noSQL (and “unstructured” SQL) data stores, supporting both lazy and active data migration strategies (https://github.com/samlaycock/nosql-odm)

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

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Post by windowshopping »

I built The Daily Baffle over at https://dailybaffle.com with a whole bunch of word and logic puzzles I designed.

There's Truthsorting, a logic puzzle where you have to order logical statements to make them true or false.

Pathword, a puzzle where you lay out letters along a path to spell out 4 words.

Morphology, a clued word ladder written by a different contribution daily.

And a few others!

I've been trying to promote it for a few months but I haven't had a ton of luck, to be honest. The audience hovers around 500 people and growing it beyond that has been pretty challenging.

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

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Post by paulhebert »

I’m continuing to work on my daily puzzle game Tiled Words!

https://tiledwords.com

Forbes just wrote an article about it which was a fun surprise! [1]

It recently turned 6 months old which is wild to me. My wife and I have made a new puzzle every day for half a year! I wrote a blog post about this [2]

I recently released user logins. That went well and a lot of people are using them. I also let you filter the backlog by completed puzzles based on player feedback.

This week I’m going to start releasing player submitted puzzles and release my puzzle building tools. You can watch a video for a sneak peek of those tools. [3]

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2026/05/02/bored-o...

2. https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/six-months-of-tiled-wo...

3. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_zhMKd0Yg

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

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Post by ssorallen »

* Tab Wrangler GitHub Project: https://github.com/tabwrangler/tabwrangler

* Tab Wrangler for Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjhc...

Continuing to work on Tab Wrangler, an extension for both Chrome and Firefox that has been available and open source for 10+ years. It auto-closes tabs when they have not been active for a configurable amount of time, similar to the feature built into Mobile Safari but more configurable.

I have been maintaining it and in the past few months added features that had been requested for a long time.

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

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Post by jsattler »

I'm currently working on BetterCapture (https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture), which is a lightweight (~4MB size and low memory/cpu footprint) screen recorder for macOS that lives in your menu bar. It supports ProRes 422/4444, HEVC, and H.264 — including alpha channel and HDR. Frame rates from 24 to 120fps. System audio and mic simultaneously. You can also exclude specific things from recordings, like the menu bar, dock, or wallpaper.

No tracking, no analytics, no cloud uploads, no account. MIT licensed. Everything stays on your Mac.

I'm currently planning and designing a plugin system, so others can contribute new functionality without affecting the scope of BetterCapture itself - which should stay as small as possible.

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