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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by probst »

We are working on our two site-search search engines Monocle Search [0] and SearchCue [1]. The former is squarely aimed at people using Squarespace, whereas our newer offering SearchCue is aimed at anyone with a site that wants to add search.

We used Meilisearch as the search backend in the beginning but have since replaced it with a quite sophisticated search stack built around Tantivy [2]. We now support crawling and indexing of pages, most common office documents and PDFs, run OCR and feature extraction of images you might have, offer typeahead search with the aim of giving you providing answers as fast as you can type, as well as more classic agentic/conversational ai search.

There have been quite a number of interesting optimization challenges to solve in case anyone is interested. We have search nodes distributed around the globe to provide the lowest possible latency regardless of where the end-user sits.

We are also working on some other smaller side projects, but they aren't quite ready to launch yet.

[0]: https://monocle-search.com

[1]: https://searchcue.com

[2]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by hexmiles »

I'm working on TTZ, a sort of, pardon the expression, next-gen terminal protocol.

I wanted a middle ground between web apps and Terminal UI that allows for things like raster images, vector graphics, simple audio support and file transfer; to let me move more apps and workflows from web apps to a lighter experience.

I have an old laptop that I love and is very nice to use, but since it has only 2 GB of RAM, using multiple web apps is out of the question. I live on the terminal and SSH, but it has its own limitations, like spotty support for images, no audio at all, and ReGis (for vector graphics) support is not available in a lot of terminals.

I've recently finished implementing both client and server libraries for multiple languages (with the help of AI), and right now I'm in the process of fully testing and squashing all bugs and inconsistencies. Next, I will port a couple of applications as a proof of concept.

I plan to publish the source code very soon to receive feedback.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by wazHFsRy »

Something very small and simple compared to other ambitious projects here :)

A TUI to control a crazyflie nano drone. This is mostly a rust learning project - but insanely fun because it leads to something flying through my living room.

https://github.com/yannick-cw/crazyflie-commander

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by dr_dshiv »

1. Translating 1000s of NeoLatin, Chinese and Sanskrit books for the first time

At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc. There are a lot of beautiful books to look at — and you can use it with Claude code. API keys available: https://SourceLibrary.org/developers.

2. Replicating the design patterns of contemporary AI services

I’ve created a web app, desktop application and API for organizations needing European hardware and data protections. It’s a nice interface on top of Scaleway in France, so low carbon too. See https://makemode.eu

Support, feedback or even participation on these projects is very welcome.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by rh94 »

https://github.com/ricccrd/dd

I was annoyed by the speed of docker on Mac’s, so I took a journey and decided to rewrite everything about it. DD was original working name and I’m in process of rebranding. But we can run docker on Mac’s with no vm. And its destroying qemu. We have plenty of new features that are comming. Rendering native apps, workspaces, much more.

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