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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)

#441
https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator is still very useful for annotating html prototypes and markdown plans (as well as terminal agent messages). Was glad to see codex team pick up the feature requests in the Codex App.

About to release a fun paid version. All contributors get lifetime free access.

Better running agents run longer, they need better plans. (is my bet)

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

#442
I am building Hiring Method (https://hiring-method.com) – an AI-native, math-driven recruitment platform. It extracts structured scorecards from both CVs and job requirements and mathematically matches them, so you can actually review the exact reasoning behind why a candidate scored a, say, 85%. This fitness value is specified at every interview step – as applicant goes through an interview process their scorecard is updated at all steps.

I did the first Show HN a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083987) but it was sadly left without attention.

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

#445
I’ve been hacking on an outdoor sound monitor for 24x7 logging of birds and bats around my house the last couple of weeks with a live indoor monitor: https://github.com/simonjgreen/OpenObservatory

And today I knocked out an improved trmnl plugin for Japanese flash cards at my wife’s request as she liked the native one from trmnl but it lacked furigana https://github.com/simonjgreen/trmnl-japanese-vocab

Note: I let AI do the vast bulk of the work on both counts, and I ideated, architected, and bug fixed. I do love AI coding hobby projects though, when you have an idea for a thing and know exactly how to put it together but don’t have the time to raw dog the whole thing.

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

#447

I'm working on DB Pro [1] A modern database client with dashboards, saved queries, workflows, and yes, AI built into it. I've focused on building brilliant UX over the last year, and it has paid off. I've had two emails saying that they have cancelled their Jetbrains subscription for DataGrip which has been so validating. It's been a labour of love and I'm super happy to have disrupted even a small part of the ginorm…

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

#448
Posted on the other thread too related to this

I’ve been making interactive learning resources for myself - with wasm and browser simulation based labs (browser only interactive courses served from GitHub pages) to teach me topics from beginner to advanced

LLMs and systems intersection - https://kernelspace.naigap.com

Distributed systems - https://byzantine.play.naigap.com

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

#449
I've been working on Contextify, which backs up your Claude Code and Codex conversational history and makes your entire history available via a skill or mcp.

Contextify (https://contextify.sh)

It is very flexible, you use it the normal flow of CLI AI conversations:

   1. Resume unfinished work → "where did we leave off on that?"
   2. Recover the intent/scope → "what was the actual goal of this whole effort?"
   3. Verify it got done → "did we ever finish that, and which session proves it?"
   4. Recall a fix → "how did we fix this the last time it broke?"
   5. Reconstruct a decision → "why did we go this way instead of the other one?"
   6. Branch/PR archaeology → "what was this branch even for?"
   7. Recall a plan → "what was the plan we landed on for that?"
   8. Activity over a window → "what did I ship or close in the last few days?"
Just add "use total recall" or invoke the skill directly via /total-recall or $total-recall.

You can self-host your database to keep it local and sync your history across multiple computers. The local server is source available under FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0.

There are macos and linux clients, and I'm pretty close on a windows client. All share a common Swift-based core.

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

#450
I've been having fun building out a link-in-bio tool / micro-site builder in my spare time. It started out as just something that a solo-dev could build without a lot of experience... but it's turned out to be more complicated and interesting than I thought! Right now I'm working on getting embeds and other 'fancier' types of blocks built out. Also… if any SEO wizards are lurking, I would love tips on getting more Google impressions/CTR, lol. If you want to check it out (would love some feedback!):

https://soc.bio

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