Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
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#602I have not yet figured out a way to live reload the dashboard itself after a feature addition or a bug fix. :-(
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#6031. an extension to my shop (I have a shop! I never thought I would have one of these) for water treatment and food storage.
2. an agentic framework that I started on in January - maelstrom. You can find the current code here: https://github.com/zerohumancompany2/maelstrom-code/tree/ske...
The whole point of this framework is to increase the robustness of agents so that small models (30b class) can function over long time horizons reliably. Other goals include auditability (full agent sessions are stored durably and can be branched/rolled back/restarted from any point, all over-the-wire comms are also durably stored) and reliability (sane fallbacks for common failure cases).
The current iteration (sketch 7 or draft 7 or 8) is specifically a coding agent framework. In the future I'd like to expand the core to handle a variety of tasks.
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#605I've been working on IdleQuest for about a year. It's a from-the-ground-up recreation of the 1999 classic, EverQuest. It features a custom real-time MMO server built in Go, a very thoroughly implemented web client, and the classic UI recreated in React. I spent hundreds of hours meticulously scraping, cleaning, and organizing original data and graphics, and there's still a lot of work to do. But I've had a lot of fun…
Considering how difficult it can be to get certain versions of the game running nowadays, it's nice to have another option to explore the world! I tried and tried to get EQ1999 running on different Linux distributions (Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS) but just couldn't. Only version that worked is the official Steam client.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#606I am working on ShopSpec ( https://shopspec.io/ ), a tool for designing bookshelves and cabinets. Enter the dimensions and it generates the parts, cuts, sheet layout, and build steps. I built it because I wanted to spend less time drawing boxes in CAD and more time building them. Still early and I'd love feedback from other woodworkers.
Bed frames might be a nice category to add as well :)
I have wanted to build some custom bookshelves for an oddly shaped room I have. Any plans on adding bookshelves that aren't rectangular?
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#608I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.
I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.
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#610A newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc... I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free. I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to…