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

[NO-AI] [https://newspeaklanguage.org]

1) Using Chrome's Isolated Web App technology and the afforded TCPSockets in the browser, I am resurrecting an ancient, windows desktop only, TCP protocol for connecting to * from web applications. All Newspeak, all the time.

2) Re-writing my friends football pool in Newspeak. The Squeak/Seaside version has served him well for more than a decade but I've grown tired of the setup. My VPS server got hacked recently affording the impetus to try another iteration. Storing all the data locally in IndexedDB, using my own Newspeak library for that API.

* While I have no problem being "left behind", I refuse to actively assist others in "getting ahead".

I’m in the first weeks of designing nub: Not Unix, Basically. The motto is “general-purpose, provably correct software, for everyone”. The idea is to build, on top of seL4, a software stack that builds compile time capability guarantees and other high-assurance primitives into every piece of software by default.

“nub” is a good name because it can also be read as “noob”, which I am, when it comes to PL, type systems, and OS design. But I’m loving the deep connections that I am learning to draw across subjects like computability theory, functional programming, and brass-tacks software development.

For example, I find myself understanding the purpose of the borrow checker in Rust (“to make race conditions impossible” is my understanding: feel free to correct me / add color).

No website or GitHub repo yet. I’m brushing up on classical logic and learning Idris. Installed QEMU today.

Hi HN, I am making progress working on Circuitscript, a language based on python to describe electronic schematics: https://circuitscript.net/. A basic IDE (called the Bench) to try Circuitscript is available online: https://bench.circuitscript.net/

In the last month, I have added support for more ERC rules (pin type compatibility checks), added initial support for net classes and also cleaned up the language a little (backslash line continuation, similar to python).

Recently, I just completed a 161-LED charlieplexed array design that uses nested for-loops to simplify the array design. It is currently in production and I plan to write a blog post soon to document this design.

As always, the motivation for creating Circuitscript is to describe schematics in terms of code rather than graphical UIs after using different CAD packages extensively (Allegro, Altium, KiCad) for work in the past. I wanted to spend more time thinking about the design itself rather than fiddling around with GUIs. With code, the design intentions become explicit and reviewable.

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone else frustrated with graphical schematic tools! If you have a KiCad design that you would like to convert to Circuitscript, please reach out to me as well and I will help you to do so as I am trying to challenge/test the limits of Circuitscript.

For memory and continuity, I am working on eachmind. Eachmind gives each agent its own memory — privately encoded, individually shaped — while defining a protocol for what gets selectively shared, when, and how.

Agents develop genuine perspectives.

Teams develop genuine collective intelligence.

Check out the repo: https://github.com/inthepond/each-mind

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