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

#541

I am working on building an interactive mathematics book exploring various curves and their properties/applications. Two wonderful books which initiated me into this topic are https://archive.org/details/lml-remarkable-curves https://archive.org/details/StraightLinesAndCurves I learnt a lot from these, and found other books which are detailed explorations. Using interactive applets would make wonderful companions for…

how do you plan to publish?

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

#542

Continuing to build my olive oil tracking site ( https://www.extravirginvault.com/ ) and pipeline. Freshness is king in the world of olive oil, and I hope to highlight to people they can find high quality, fresh olive oil produced near them. It's been received well from producers and olive oil enthusiasts (e.g. looking for specific chemistry, cultivars and similar oils) but I feel like I've been shadow banned from Go…

I'd imagine the Google issue may be to the fact that your URL looks like it would be porn.

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

#546
I've been working on Next Move Theory for the last 8 years.

Next Move Theory is a methodology with a step-by-step algorithm for every product decision. It lays out every tactical and strategic move open to you and helps you choose the best, with the odds on your side. The foundations are open and free. AI skills run it on your product.

Dozens of cases in my home country, zero presence in the US — now I'm working to make founders and PMs in the US aware of it.

https://nextmovetheory.com

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

#547
I'm working on the Obsidian plugin for building and rendering family graphs [1]. I started my own genealogy research in 2025 and did not want to store data on a 3rd-party platform. Obsidian was a great decision. The only thing I needed is a tree (graph) viewer for family members relationships (something like myheritage.com has). So, I built my own with a lot of interactivity on top.

[1]: https://github.com/TheBestTvarynka/grafily

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

#548
Building a small cloud service that I've been thinking of for a while, to take the articles I don't have time to read but find interesting in principle, and convert them to audio via TTS. Just filled a short flight with some articles from the backlog, now I need to do some UI improvements, and then maybe a similar flow for academic papers too. :)

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

#550
I've been working on a home Hermes setup that I'm using to do a variety of things. So far, here's what I've done:

- Set up an in-house alternative to my Ring subscription for the cameras around my house. So far I have it real-time monitoring, complete with AI face recognition and interpretation of events, all on an internal web page. It also sends me alerts via Telegram.

- Set up a blog that I'm using to catalog these experiences with Hermes and AI in general

- Started working with multiple agents to do things when appropriate. My main model right now is glm-5.2 for cloud, and Qwen3.6b-IQ4 (4-bit quantized) running locally. It only takes 18GB of VRAM on my 4090, so I have plenty of overhead. I'm also using Hindsight instead of the MEMORY.md that Hermes natively uses.

- Setup local image generation, with the local Qwen model, using ComfyUI w/Flux.

- All of the above isn't including the numerous smaller jobs (like setting up Telegram, setting up automated cloud backups, troubleshooting Linux issues, etc) that I've been using Hermes for.

Future plans: I'm working on making a game with Godot, learning as I go. I haven't had Hermes do anything for that, and I don't want to really, except I may use local image gen for testing purposes, as I plan to engage an artist for any graphical work in the final product.

I'm doing all of this just a learning experience. It's been really fun so far.

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