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

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

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

alpn wrote: post #50

I'm working on https://wireplug.org : wireplug lets you create mesh VPNs using standard WireGuard. Your wg config files stay almost the same, except you no longer have to specify an `Endpoint` for your peers. Instead, wireplug detects all your possible endpoints (including LAN) and coordinates them with your peers for you. It handles NAT traversal and works with the in-kernel WireGuard driver on Linux and OpenBSD. Th…

Is this similar to Netmaker's offering? Platform wrapper around wireguard protocol?

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

I am in the final stages of preparing to ship a 2.0 version of a fairly successful app, that has been shipping for a couple of years.

This is a complete, bottom-to-top rewrite (front- and backend). It's a huge improvement. I used an LLM, quite a bit. It's been a big help.

We're in the last stages of the first-wave testers. This is the one that affects the app UI. After this, we expand the test, and do bug fixes only.

Also, we need to start taking screenshots and app previews for the App Store. That requires setting up a test server, with anonymized (fake) users, so we don't compromise actual user anonymity. It's a bit of a pain, but it has to be done.

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

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Post by zahlman »

mzhaase wrote: post #312

I'm working on Dictatorship Simulator. A deckbuilder where, instead of directly attacking your enemy, you manipulate a political simulation to do it for you. You start out on the fringe, and slowly work your way up, fighting an increasingly worried and panicky government - as well as your own. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4564800/Dictatorship_Simu...

I'd reconsider the name; the "X Simulator" name pattern primes people to expect a first-person 3d game where the gameplay is mainly about directly manipulating objects in the environment.

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

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Post by mcapodici »

Bnjoroge wrote: post #201

Lots of fun projects being listed. I'm working on Preloop( https://preloop.dev ), a way to run your unmodified Github Actions locally or self-hosted in isolated cross-platform microvms(uses smolvm which uses libkrun vmm).I got frustrated with Github Actions reliability and inability to run or test my workflows locally so i re-wrote the runner and reverse-engineered the control plane so it follows the exact runner pro…

That is an amazing idea. I can imagine this getting popular. It could be used for faster local dev loops and porting GHA to other servers. I imagine for data/compute residency, cost, performance, vm types etc.

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

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Post by mcapodici »

xavigroup wrote: post #354

I left my job as a principal software engineer a few months back and have been working on an agentic harness and https://blackbear.app -- a local first, end-to-end encrypted everything app with file editors for notes, documents, sheets, free-hand canvases, slides, and a whole lot more. Also features a calendar and task system, and a lightweight discovery engine. There's a BYOK agent system (Pax) that works with you a…

Hi. As you are deeply thinking about these sorts of things, I want to see what you think of my https://useorganizer.com which turns the todo idea on its head a bit by being timeline oriented.

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

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Post by jimnotgym »

I am working on cataloguing Murder Stones!

These were stone memorials placed where someone was killed, especially in the UK. Most of them are 18th-19th century. Some are lost.

After watching a YouTube video about it and finding there was no definitive list, I registered https://murder-stones.org on Friday night and fired up claude code. There is very little on Wikipedia. I'm collating all the snippets i can find. There are a bunch of references I have collected which I'm sorting through with claude which has now run out of credits!

I have been more focused on finding new stones than fleshing out the stories so far. I have a pile of sources.

I have been researching manually for tidbits and feeding them to claude and asking what else it can find. It could find 8 to begin with but my research has got me up to around 33. There are some artifacts of that process still on the site... but it's day 2.

Its still a bit janky, but it's only day 2 really. Stack is a csv file of maybes, being sorted into sqlite, generating a static site with a python script, push to github, host on netlify. I also have a quick local flask app to enable me to hand edit the db and force a rebuild

https://murder-stones.org.

I would love to hear about any leads!

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