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

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

#41
I’ve been working on Pick Up, a reading companion I built to make tracking books feel a bit more personal and fun.

You can track what you’re reading, keep notes and reflections, see your reading stats, build out your bookshelf, and a bunch more. Over 4k monthly active users.

Been building it solo & adding features based on what readers ask for.

https://pickupreader.com

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

#43
Now launched => Verse Draft: https://versedraft.com - An all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for their universes in one place while crafting stories, novels, movie scripts, TV series, or stage plays.

Also created a fun simple "card game" activity for writers looking for story ideas or stuck with writers block: https://talemancy.com/

(This was somewhat inspired by memories of playing Ultima IV as a teenager)

Currently working on something a little more visually focused in creative design.

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

#46
lexera, a kanban board with full multimedia and document include support that saves to markdown, exports to marp to manage teaching materials. it also started out to be my editor of choice for agentic programming as each task is a card. hopefully i will manage to create a page and visible materials soon!

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

#47
https://fabulae.orbilii.com - A Latin language audiobook containing both volumes of A.D. Godley's "The Fables of Orbilius" which are entertaining intermediate Latin stories written at the turn of the 20th century for use in British schools.

The audio itself is in delivered with the restored classical Latin pronunciation and contains spoken nuances like vowel nasalization, elision, and prodelision. I used a wav2vec2 model to generate forced-alignment data, so you can easily follow along with the text as it's being read aloud. Each word in the text is richly enhanced with pedagogical details like: lemma, citation forms / principal parts, morphological segmentation and analysis, inflectional class with complete declension/conjugation tables, verb category, contextual lexical information (i.e. specific L&S sense), Classical Latin IPA pronunciation, UD style syntactic function and relations, predicate valency, and concise English definitions. Spoken instances of elision and prodelision can also optionally be displayed.

From a nerd perspective, one of the things that makes the system interesting is that the documents themselves are entirely in XML, and I use the soon-to-be-removed-everywhere in-browser XSLT feature to render the HTML, so you can see the underlying XML structure if you view source. Each sentence in the text contains provenance records so you can see the language model and parameters that performed each language enrichment task. The site UI is largely bilingual, and you can view it in either Latin or English.

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

#48
I got laid off at the beginning of last month so put a little time into some personal projects I thought might be fun.

https://dstld.news - I have always wanted a personalized news site so I built one using a few news APIs with AI summaries.

https://hn.wreet.xyz - I'm a big fan of skeleton.dev and wanted a HN frontend with all the fun themes.

Nothing too exciting, just trying to find the joy in making again.

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

#49
post #18

https://grandpacad.com - AI modeling for 3D printing Been at it for about year and a half. Really exciting stuff is happening literally every month, because underlying models are getting better and better. When I started it was pretty basic: “make a cube with a hole through it”. Now it’s at the point “make a raspberry pi 4 case” and the agent searches, builds, verifies… What surprised me in this process is how little…

You mentioned benchmarks don’t mean much in this area. What are the best models you found in this area?

Personally, I’ve had the most success with GPT models using MCP servers for this task.

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

#50
Contributing larger PRs to terraform-provider-aws because apparently my contributions so far do not have enough lines of code as a metric. Getting familiar with Floci for usage with Terraform over LocalStack since it is a true open source project rather than freemium. Also getting my AAS from Maestro. Ride or die since I can not afford college anywhere else despite their current accreditation issues with COE.
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