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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)

#451
Since January I've been working on a storytelling system that fuses what I think is the best of interactive fiction / MUDs with the strengths of LLMs. The world model is entirely deterministic, but the LLM interprets the player and narrates the game and NPCs.

Also hacking on something similar to YC's QM but designed for small non-profits to ease as much back office work as possible.

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

#453
I’m building cloud managed self improving agents at https://sanbox.cloud.

Each instance gets its own persistent file system, root SSH access and a web terminal. The goal is to let an agent build skills with experience rather than start from scratch on every task.

I started with Hermes as the first harness and now exploring Prime Agent. You can use it for a personal assistant, use it to build LLM wiki, connect it as part of an agent team, or run any coding agent on the cloud with dangerously skip permissions.

I’m also working towards a more general-purpose agent setup that can connect to channels such as email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Buzz.

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

#455

I'm building an uptime monitoring service, in Elixir, called https://larm.dev . It's a tough field because for some reason people vibe coding apps think this is very easy to do, and there are new apps coming out pretty much every day. I'm still figuring out how to effectively stand out in the noise. I really enjoy working on the app though. The backend is Elixir, with a Phoenix LiveView dashboard. I've got a cluster…

Elixir is perfect for stuff like this, very cool project!

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

#458
a toy thing for the game path of exile 2.

Fed up of wading through a metric oodle of waystones and tablets to figure what best, along with a billion stash tabs full of a zillion items.

I'm making a tool that scans your inventories and lets you rank and analyse things based on their affixes, so the best ones according to criteria you set pop out at you, minus the hours of staring and thinking.

Hobby project, so full on vibe coded zero code review type stuff. If it works, thats good enough. for now, anyway.

KimiK3 is the weapon of choice for this one, and its doing pretty damn good!

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

#459
https://corvi.careers/reports/technology-stack-trends/

It tracks explicit mentions of ~ 181 languages, technologies, vendors, etc as seen in job postings. The motivation was that GitHub activity and developer surveys describe what people use or enjoy, but not necessarily what employers are requesting.

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

#460
Orchestrating an AI agent built in native Object Pascal for Free Pascal Compiler and Delphi. Runs in less than 10MB of RAM. Besides being very Windows forward and local first; doing some fun things with it like incorporating WebLLM and running it in the browser inside a WASM Linux.

Https://pasclaw.dev/

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