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

- Making a nostalgic remake of Rainbow Six Rogue Spear - called "Tango Down"

Its low poly, Java OpenGL game but trying to stay faithful to the old gameplay

- Updating my homelab setup to be much tidier, moving stuff to Ansible, dockerising non-critical services. Running scheduled backups to a separate NAS

- Making a World in Conflict SFX mod for Warno, so it sounds much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudm7JKY6gI

100k+ users, 150m+ questions solved, 60b seconds of smarter studying, MedGPT, MedAgent, and everything medical/dental students need in one place along with young doctors who have recently graduated

Yes considering / implemented both of those, but will likely put it behind a paid service (need to pay for it somehow).

  year  projects  avg/month
  ----  --------  ---------
  2008       123       10.2
  2009       104        8.7
  2010       666       55.5
  2011        86        7.2
  2012        46        3.8
  2013       389       32.4
  2014       146       12.2
  2015       104        8.7
  2016       471       39.2
  2017       456       38.0
  2018       242       20.2
  2019       246       20.5
  2020       882       73.5
  2021       837       69.8
  2022       363       30.2
  2023       425       35.4
  2024      2122      176.8
  2025      6220      518.3
  2026      6093      677.0  (Jan-Sep)

  year  #1             #2             #3             #4             #5
  ----  -------------  -------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
  2008  Dev tools  9%  Games      9%  Video/gfx  7%  Writing    7%  Business   6%
  2009  Dev tools 16%  Science   11%  Writing    8%  Education  7%  Business   7%
  2010  Dev tools  8%  Games      6%  Video/gfx  6%  Business   4%  Writing    4%
  2011  Dev tools  8%  Games      8%  Social     7%  Business   7%  Science    7%
  2012  Business  13%  Dev tools  7%  Hardware   4%  Video/gfx  4%  Social     4%
  2013  Dev tools 16%  Video/gfx 10%  Games      7%  Writing    6%  Education  6%
  2014  Dev tools 12%  Video/gfx 10%  Writing    7%  Hardware   6%  Games      6%
  2015  Games     11%  Dev tools 10%  Business  10%  Hardware   8%  Video/gfx  8%
  2016  Dev tools 17%  Video/gfx 11%  Hardware   8%  Business   6%  Music      5%
  2017  Dev tools 18%  Video/gfx 10%  Hardware   7%  Games      6%  Data       5%
  2018  Dev tools 14%  Video/gfx  8%  Writing    6%  Games      5%  AI/LLM     4%
  2019  Dev tools 17%  Video/gfx 10%  Games      9%  Hardware   6%  Business   5%
  2020  Dev tools 14%  Video/gfx  9%  Games      8%  Hardware   5%  Writing    5%
  2021  Dev tools 18%  Video/gfx 10%  Games      9%  Hardware   7%  Writing    6%
  2022  Dev tools 21%  Video/gfx 13%  Music      9%  Science    8%  Games      7%
  2023  Dev tools 14%  Video/gfx 10%  Games      9%  Writing    8%  AI/LLM     7%
  2024  Dev tools 20%  AI/LLM    17%  Video/gfx 11%  Games      9%  Business   6%
  2025  AI/LLM    27%  Dev tools 21%  Video/gfx 10%  Games      9%  Data       5%
  2026  AI/LLM    33%  Dev tools 22%  Video/gfx 10%  Games     10%  Hardware   6%

Financial Forecasting/Retirement Tool but you can drill down on individual assets and tweak params and see it from different angles.

I wanted to focus on something that wasn't AI and focus on the 'boring' non-technical parts that I've read so much about but never sunk my teeth into, like distribution and SEO. It's been a really fun experience.

As for the space, i.e. Financial Forecasting/Retirement Planning, put simply, financial security is important to me, I want to be able to retire on my own terms and for my family not to have to worry. I personally believe it is incredibly important to become financially literate and work towards financial stability if and when you can.

Also though there are a lot of Financial Calculators out there, I just couldn't find one that suited what I wanted, they all just seemed either too simple, didn't focus on what I wanted or purely existed to upsell me to a financial planner or Buyers Agent etc.

Haha also, the space if very crowded, in hindsight I would have picked a different space to focus on.