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

#841

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…

> nothing for sale on those pages

"$20/month · or $160/year"

-- https://aitradingcompetition.com/playbook.html#pricing

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

#842

https://chartrow.com/ is a website to visualize stock market data. Examples: this table shows the outperformance of QQQ in recent years: https://chartrow.com/visuals/periodic-table#window=10 This page shows stocks that are cheap relative to their own multiples in the past 10 years: https://chartrow.com/visuals/valuation-dip?view=charts This is a stock screener that shows histograms: https://chartrow.com/screener This…

amazing.

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

#843

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am absolutely loving it! I was very intimidated at first because the concept sounds very difficult, but Prof. Schocken and Prof. Nisan are amazing at breaking down the concepts and abstractions and making something complex very easy to follow and understand.

I did Nand2Tetris during the last Christmas holidays. I only finished the first part - I got it working on Verilog - so I basically have a emulated computer that can run programs in assembly language. Will need to do part 2 as well. https://github.com/rishi93/nand2tetris

That's a really cool idea!!

I was actually wondering: are we allowed to publish our work on GitHub? I already have a Github repo but I made it private and only show it to potential employers and individual people who are interested, because I am not very certain about the copyright rules of the HDL skeleton files, and whether we are allowed to publish our work, given Coursera's honor code.

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

#844
I built this sql formatter https://sql.leuduan.work> for my own use - it works by parsing the SQL query to AST using native engines where possible (for BigQuery it use GoogleSQL library, for MSSQL it uses Microsoft ScriptDOM, the rest uses Apache Data Fusion Parser) and from the AST it re-generates the SQL query in a consistent formatted style. You can throw in all kind of badly formatted SQL queries and it will work just fine. Hope you find it useful!

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

#845
https://whilemusic.net/ - Generative hard- or software- synthesizer music.

The core engine (genetic MIDI generation) started 3 years ago to drive hardware synthesizers. That was good old handcrafted code, just a CLI tool.

At some point I thought I was done with it, but AI coding tools let me build a nicer GUI around it and make it more accessible. Eventually a web version with built in Csound soft synth resulted which is where it's at now.

There was no larger goal besides having fun, and maybe make some interesting sounds or even music that is generated in real time. Some of example Csound "patches" I use as background music.

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

#846
post #835

I'm working on a real-life social app called Holler ( https://justhollerapp.com ). I'm an introvert and socially anxious, but I do enjoy hanging out with my friends. I just HATE the invitation-and-coordination game. If someone invites me and I don't want to go, I hate having to come up with a socially acceptable excuse. Inviting someone and waiting for them to make a socially acceptable excuse is equally awful to me.…

Like the idea and the website looks good! Did you design by hand or what was your workflow for coming up with a design language, color palette, the sliding banner with headlines, etc?

Thanks! I came up with the color palette and the overall design. To be totally honest, I had AI do the HTML/CSS, as frontend is not my specialty, but I drew up the main design in Canva first and spent a lot of time with Claude to get it to reproduce what I wanted. It came up with a few things that I liked, and it came up with a few things that I hated. The final product out of Claude was probably 95% of what you see here, and then I went in and tweaked the rest of it by hand.

Glad you like it. :)

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

#847
I'm building Buffalo, a text based social media with no UI, and no algorithm meaning you can view posts how ever you want and filter them by tags, if you want to view it through a website you can make one, if you want to view it through a TUI you can make one. you can join the waitlist at https://waitlist.buffalo.sh

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

#848
An application to manage my projects and documents - https://rhea.bytebreeze.com.au

Solo-development on a project of this scale has taught me a lot about prioritising where I spend my time and in what order I roll out application code as well as how to ensure I lean in to write once run everywhere design around libraries and component design.

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

#849

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…

The most likely outcome from a naive attempt to automate trading is random results.

Wrong:

Stock prices are not random

(in a sense of "really random every day")

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