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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)

#341

https://Webvetted.com It’s an AI Private Investigator that does the hard work of data gathering (using Open Source Intelligence) and correlation. Used by over 70k investigators including government agencies.

Just gave it a look. Turns out to be a paid service after a bunch of clicks.

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

#343
I've been working on anti age verification/surveillance projects lately. I put together this thing I call The Mandating Honeypots Project and it shows how anyone with an internet connection and copy + paste skills can trick Linux D-Buses with a simple Python script, proving that if companies want to verify your age by asking the D-Bus interface, it's easy to just tell it to always send 18+, making the whole thing useless. The only reason you'd want ID verification is so you can create the world's biggest and sweetest honeypot.

(https://github.com/Tori-Tech/Mandating-Honeypots-Project)

In that project, I also proposed a tool with heavily redundant password protection that parents could use to keep kids from tampering with the service so the government can stop saying that this is for the kids. I'm planning on doing a mobile device version and/or an ID database focused version, but that's still in the planning phase.

I also want to do a Windows version when they release their 'GetUserAgeRangeAsync' API, but idk if I'll be able to. Windows is always a pain to work with.

It'd be nice if someone had advice or ideas to share, too.

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

#345

I run a small experiment on this: 29 paper-trading accounts on real US stock prices, $100k each, since July 27. Four AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini) each write a trading rulebook and rewrite it every day from their own results. One account is a fixed rulebook that no AI ever touches, as a control. Result so far (paper, 34 trading days): the no-AI control is +13.0%, the S&P 500 is +3.4%, and 25 of the 28 AI…

None of this really means anything. For one if you test enough strategies one by luck will be killer. Second, past performance != future.

One AI might consist of some convulated strategy of who knows what, but all it takes in the end is for it to say...hold more tech stocks than not, or buying more call options or leveraged positions in a bull market, being more out of the market during a bearish market, etc. But that same strategy will fail miserably as soon as the market conditions change

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

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post #266

I've built Flexito, a website/mobile app (it's PWA) for daily stretching and mobility exercises. As many of us here, I sit too much in my chair during the day and I'm trying to stretch more often and strengthen my back/core muscles. There are a lot of "free" apps out there e.g. Bend that are helpful but I was annoyed with ads and limitations so I built one for myself. Now I use it daily. The app is simple, you have a…

How did you generate the images for all the routines? I’ve been wanting to really build something like but for games that you can play with your newborn

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

#347
https://triptruth.app

All the travel apps out there are built for the instagram generation but dinosaurs like me still use TripIt for travel tracking and itinerary sharing. But its parsing hasn’t changed since Concur bought it 15 years (!) ago and I thought it would be nice to have LLMs read the cancellation minutiae for trips and put in a simple timeline for sharing.

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

#349

https://curvefit.app it's a weight-training app that helps you train along your "pareto frontier" of weight vs reps. The idea is to train at lower weight-higher rep, medium weight medium reps, and higher weight, lower reps for every movement. I tried to develop my own weight training program following bits and pieces of advice from bodybuilding forums and ended up injuring several tendons in my first year. So I did a…

Interesting, this reminds me of my workout planning tool, which I've been working on.

https://grademyworkout.com/

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