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

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

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Post by petrocrat »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #53

I've been thinking a lot about soul cultivation as a concept, and the general structure of the soul, and doing a bit of writing on the topic. I feel like this topic is surprisingly under-discussed and under-explored relative to how impactful it is. By soul I mean "the part of you that is an observer", in case this isn't clear. I think a lot of discourse gets caught up with metaphysical speculation instead of focusing…

> By soul I mean "the part of you that is an observer"

This is a nice notion, but it's not how the existing literature (going back very long) generally uses the term "soul." Conventionally speaking the term soul is theological and has ties to modes of spiritual salvation as it is considered a substance that persists beyond human mortality. What you're describing seems more like the term "self" or "ego" or "conscious awareness" as those terms are used in philosophy. You're welcome to create your own definitions, but if they trample over the prior art of the terms in literature that is hundreds if not thousands of years old then that's going to almost certainly lead to the confusion you say you're noticing among people.

for what it's worth my drawing of "the part of me that is the observer" would look like some subset of the brain.

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

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Post by gregable »

I've been working on a website that tells you when it's time to open or close the windows. You register with a location, your preferred method of notification, and the rules for what you consider open-windows weather to be.

Range of temperature is the big one for rules, but you can also require humidity, wind speed. Eventually would be nice to add air quality if there's a sensor nearby.

You don't need any local devices - sensors, motors, etc. You just get an email/text/web push of your choice when the weather is nice and some fresh air is freely available.

I've had a home assistant routine for this running for myself for years, but the 80% version requires nothing more than weather data. Human in the loop automation (I physically open/close the windows).

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

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Post by halamadrid »

Just crossed the second year building out Unmeshed - Orchestration Platform.

This is basically a rewrite of Netflix Conductor which was the original platform we built while working at Netflix. At Netflix, infra was "free" so we were generous in all the dependencies we had on that - so we decided to rewrite for cost optimization in this version.

Unmeshed eliminates the glue code thats typically written for resiliency or connecting things together. And our design of execution also offers it the flexibility of being used as a real-time API orchestrator. It even comes with a managed SQLite service (as many as you need), which means we don't need a provider like Supabase to work with stateful workflows.

Fun fact is that in our company, everything we use is actually just static HTML UI built on top of the Unmeshed Platform as backend - like our CRM, SaaS management, Deployments, Finance etc.

Check it out here: https://unmeshed.io

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

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Post by soysamurai »

vitally3643 wrote: post #197

I'm finally fulfilling a childhood dream of restoring a Heathkit oscilloscope. I managed to nab a functioning IO-12 at the thrift store for $75! Don't tell my husband that I spent more than $200 on parts and supplies for it. I've wanted a Heathkit since I learned about them as a teenager, and this is the first one I've ever seen in the wild. The original owner left the date he assembled it and his callsign written on…

This is really cool! My dad always talked about the one he had when he was much younger.

In a similar vein I’m teaching my son to rebuild an old ‘62 VW that’s been in the family since ‘62 and am constantly reminded of how nice it is when things are simple. And I’ve learned that the dollars spent are not that important when you are having fun and learning or teaching something!

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

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Post by agup792 »

paulhebert wrote: post #73

I’m continuing to work on my daily word game Tiled Words! https://tiledwords.com I checked my analytics recently and over 100 people have 100+ day streaks which kind of blows my mind! I released custom player puzzles which has been a lot of fun! I’ve gotten dozens of submissions that I’m working through. People are submitting really clever and interesting puzzles. It’s fun to get to solve puzzles I didn’t make myself…

That's a nice game. I also like the clean theme of your website. Very soothing.

It is addictive too!

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

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Post by rijavecb »

I'm continuing to work on my fishing-log app: https://buckaros.com/ (It's in Serbian, at least for now). I recently added an option to attach images to fishing logs, locations, and equipment using Cloudflare's R2. Now I've started working on adding teams support, so that you can chat with your friends and see their catches and locations.

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

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Post by laxpsy »

Nothing too "huge" or "notable" actually. Just things that I need. Wanted a good Obsidian -> Astro blog/notes pipeline since Astro doesn't understand Obsidian markdown syntax, wrapping my head around ASTs for that. Working on a neovim extension to help with my competitive programming hobby, so that I can just go ":CSES 1068"/":CF 1802B" and solve the problem/verify against sample cases locally.

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

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Post by agup792 »

genekrapivin wrote: post #50

I'm working on Hiring Method ( https://hiring-method.com ). After 1.5 years of development and two exhausting pivots, I’m incredibly happy to finally have our v1 live! While most of the HR tech is rushing to use black-box AI, I built the exact opposite. It's a transparent, math-driven fitness engine. It extracts objective data from CVs and calculates how well applicants match requirements, letting you see the reasoni…

Everyone is building scoring with AI and everyone is providing clues like: These are the 5 things we will score each candidate on, and here is how the candidates scored against each item. And here is the total score because of it.

P.S I work in an hrtech company.

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

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Post by jacobgold »

In my last role I spent a year building an agentic coding platform used by hundreds of thousands of people. Along the way I tried building a hosting service on OpenClaw, and also ran Hermes myself for a while. Both projects have some great feature ideas, but when I tried to use them for real work they failed more often than not, and their security models worried me. I just couldn't see either one becoming something I'd trust enough for myself/friends/family. After a lot of exploration I realized that what I really wanted all along was to create automations using the coding agent I already work in every day. It turned out coding agents were the best tool for automating anything, not just code, as long as they had the right environment and tools to work with. I also spent 20 years leading Linux infrastructure and distributed systems teams. Anyone who's written service daemons knows that most of what we think of as "always on" is really just wake up, do some work, and go back to sleep, which is an efficient pattern to use and reason about. Cron has worked this way for decades.

So I built Clor, a CLI that lets your coding agent create "claws", which are background agents that automate anything on a schedule and run on your laptop, Mac mini, or a VM.

https://clor.com

A claw can be defined and shared as a single CLAW.md file, which contains a bit of metadata (name, schedule, personality, etc.) and one or more ordered tasks. Each task is a real agent run with full tool use, or a plain bash step. Anything you can ask your agent to do once, a claw can do repeatedly. One of my claws tidies my inbox every few minutes, labeling obvious spam, rescuing legit email that got mislabeled, and starring threads I owe a reply to, etc. It's way smarter than Gmail's filters because it actually reads my mail instead of just matching rules.

So also working on making CLAW.md a completely open standard for sharing https://clor.com/blog/claws-md-open-format-for-agentic-cron-...

Installing is the usual command on Linux/macOS in the terminal: curl -fsSL https://clor.com/install.sh | bash. That will set up the CLI, a small scheduling daemon, and a skill that you can run from your agent, /claws in Claude Code or $claws in Codex.

I've been on HN since it launched, so I've got thick skin and don't mind critical feedback. Please do give me any questions/comments/suggestions here or via email jake@clor.com

Thanks!

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