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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)

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I’ve been working on Foreclosure Data Hub, which aggregates foreclosure auction data across the US.

The interesting part has been the data pipeline rather than the website itself. Foreclosure information is scattered across county sites, auction platforms, and other sources, all with different formats and update schedules.

I’m currently pulling from 20+ sources, normalizing the records, deduplicating properties, and enriching them with property/location data. One surprisingly difficult problem has been handling stale records when upstream sources change or republish old auction information.

Still working on improving data freshness and coverage:

https://www.foreclosuredatahub.com/

Would be interested to hear from anyone who’s worked on aggregating messy public datasets at scale.

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

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I am still working on MyTinyCafé https://mytinycafe.com/ a PWA to help you be the barista at home and take (free) online order from friends and family. It is fun and I am happy to share it for free ! And also Kronikle https://www.kronikle.eu/en/ an app for local libraries. It creates public display interfaces that (I think) are good for showcasing their events.

I love the name and idea of the tiny cafe. Heads up on dark mode, the “Open My Tiny Cafe” button is white text on the gray background; a bit hard to read.

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

#203
I’m working on two projects that make public data easier to explore through maps.

US Energy Cost Explorer (https://energy-maps.com) is a free tool for exploring electricity and natural gas costs across the US. You can compare states, follow prices over time, and look at bills and energy burden. I work in energy affordability, and I wanted to make this information easier for people to access and understand.

MarketGround (https://marketground.io) lets you draw an area or choose a travel time around a location, then explore its population, income, housing, and nearby businesses. It also shows daytime versus nighttime population, which is useful when thinking about who might actually be around a potential store or restaurant during business hours.

MarketGround is a side project, and I’ve found getting it in front of potential users harder than building it. I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who has evaluated a retail or franchise location. What information mattered most, and what was difficult to find?

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

#204
I’m building Hammer Labs (https://hammer.ai) to study when healthcare AI agents are wrong and when they should refuse to answer (judgement).

It started after spending 15 years building AI for insurers, hospitals, data companies, and startups. Almost every system ended with "a human reviews the output". That person was usually a nurse, medical director, or certified coder. These are some of the hardest people to hire, and the same people automation was supposed to help.

The problem is that real claims do not have an answer key. You cannot reduce human review until you can measure when an agent is wrong.

Getting claims data is also difficult. It can take a year of data agreements, privacy reviews, and procurement. Even then, you may not know what the correct decision should have been. So we generate claims. Utilization and case mix come from published data. Claims are priced using real fee schedules and contract terms. Payers behave differently, like real payers do. We plant errors on purpose, so the correct answer exists before any model runs.

On top of that, we are building benchmarks for overreach, refusal, errors by record type, and detection time. We are also building small MCP tools that refuse when evidence is missing. Every number includes its source, date, and basis.

What I find interesting is how much of this sits between actuarial work and machine learning. Both are needed, but I do not see many people connecting them.

25 published refusals: https://hammer.ai/worlds/refusals/ .

Runs on rate and policy evidence https://hammer.ai/reimbursement-evidence/ and savings claims https://hammer.ai/savings-claims/ .

AgentPlugin is Apache-2.0: https://github.com/hmmrlabs/hammer-plugin

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

#205
I'm working on a new type of calculator with natural language, similar to Soulver but for the web, in multiple languages and with AI mode

https://ottercalc.com/

It has the ability to generate a small notebook from a problem description using AI (still has a lot of room to improve), but the calculation uses a deterministic engine.

Right now I'm working on collaboration.

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

#206
Recently worked on https://sleepsignal.app

It's an app to get sleepy without meds. Simply close your eyes and imagine the micro-scenarios you hear. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one. Session duration is also not too long (10 minutes default, you may change the session duration too).

It's like a digital melatonin pill - but without chemical side effects. Try it!

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

#208
Been working on getting my webpage refreshed to try and restart my DevOps/Infra/Fractional consulting business: https://cubiclerebels.com.

Also spent a good part of last month working on a little idea I have that is built on-top of XMPP.

I've also been wanting to pickup Gleam, hopefully this would be that week I finally fight through my ADHD to do so.

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