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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)

#861

I am continuing to work on Akariq [0] which provides travel eSIM data plans to 180+ countries around the world. I have had many paying customers over the past few months from Vietnam to Mexico to Europe and US of course. The three benefits of using Akariq are 1) No app, no user account which leads to literally 3-click install 2) Full transparency - you know what you are getting. A lot of other eSIM providers hide det…

I just bought a korea + japan plan mobimatter. Seems cheaper.

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

#862
UltimaDB, a high performance full-featured MVCC transactional embedded database, with special focus for use on SMR clusters.

UDB has full transactions, selectable persistence (in-memory, eventual, strict) and consistency (SI, SSI). A lot of time was spent on performance.

Written in Rust, with 8k line of code and 15k lines of tests, 96% coverage. Formal verification with Lean 4 is in progress (see /formal), also consistency checking with elle/jepsen is in progress.

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

#864
I ported a decades-old piece of scientific software (Delft3D — Deltares' Fortran hydrodynamics engine) to run natively on Apple Silicon. From my phone, mostly, because I could (and because AI could). Runs pretty decently on a Mac Studio M3 now.

It was officially Intel-compiler + Windows/Linux only; the port gets it building with gfortran on macOS/arm64, PETSc+MPI solver and all. Fable and GPT-5.6 chewed through the compiler warnings, dependency hell, and portability bugs largely on their own. 30 or so bugs uncovered and fixed along the way, several of them real and platform-independent.

I'm not a C or Fortran dev. Mostly I argued with the agents about benchmarking methodology and told them to re-measure when the numbers looked off. The rest was up to them. Still amazed about this AI thing going on

https://github.com/tdamsma/Delft3D

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

#865
Still working on https://cloudywithachanceoflatency.net/ (and looking for beta testers actually, especially if you are interrested in trying the MCP server for your SRE agents). Also working on my very own MCP proxy, since working on the previous project gave me a few ideas; will hopefully be able to give more details in a month or so.

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

#866
I started playing with hardware manufacturing, as I think there is value into getting specific devices for listening to music, taking notes, etc. Using a smartphone is like opening up a candy box, and kills much of the joy and appreciation for what we do on it. My first project is a music player. Making my first prototype with a 3d printer.

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

#867
post #864

I ported a decades-old piece of scientific software (Delft3D — Deltares' Fortran hydrodynamics engine) to run natively on Apple Silicon. From my phone, mostly, because I could (and because AI could). Runs pretty decently on a Mac Studio M3 now. It was officially Intel-compiler + Windows/Linux only; the port gets it building with gfortran on macOS/arm64, PETSc+MPI solver and all. Fable and GPT-5.6 chewed through the c…

what's your workflow for doing the port?

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

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post #505

"what if… economics", a simple one-page economics simulator: https://whatifeconomics.com I wanted to have a place to see the effect of changing macroeconomic factors, e.g. interest rate, inflation, unemployment, etc. It's designed to show economic relationships for non-experts. Source code: https://github.com/tagawa/what-if-economics/tree/gh-pages

When Unemployment rate is falling it goes red… but that’s a good thing, should be green.
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