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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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Post by zedr »

I'm writing a multiplayer card game based on an idea I had during COVID. It's been in the back of my mind ever since.

It's being written entirely in Python: Kivy for the desktop and mobile game UI, and aiohttp for the server.

I've written very detailed specification documents for every technical and game-design aspect of the game, and I've implemented the core game engine myself. I'm letting an agent do the rest, incrementally and under supervision, tweaking the specs as we go along. So far, a very pleasant experience.

My goal is to reach beta by the end of the year, and publish the game on Steam by mid-2027.

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

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Post by nacnud »

tniemi wrote: post #152

Me and my wife (then my girlfriend) have written "realistic" space sci-fi in Finnish for over 20 years. Now with AI we are finally able to translate our stories to English. The quality starts to be there. There are a lot of small languages in the world, and translation used to be extremely expensive. And there is never too much good space sci-fi. (We don't write space battles or wars. Our style is slower and bit more…

Have you published any of these stories online? I'd love to read some!

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

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Post by brachkow »

guld wrote: post #875

Still working on my personal projects, for example an open source digital tool (code) library for humans and AI agents [1] (alpha) source code coming soon [2] and my own AI agent. But 95% of my time is spend on developing and researching new AI/ML algorithms, crazy 16 hour workdays but loving it! [1] https://tool.io [2] https://github.com/tool-io

lol, can't imagine how much this domain cost

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

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Post by nkg »

scurnus wrote: post #660

https://humansmap.com/?lb_tab=orgs 7M+ people and 3M+ organizations mapped, you can visualize entities associated with an organizations up to 1k nodes, or visualize someones graph visualization(relatives, partners, phd advisors, org connected to entity. Wikidata based. There is also a feed section: https://humansmap.com/?feed=1 Better for mobile use, here you can explore family dynasties, org memberships, interesting…

I think the concept is cool, but I tried clicking on stuff I'm familiar with, and I don't get the circles thing.

For example, the French communist party (PCF) has Jacques Chirac in its first circle. He has briefly been in this party, but he mostly remembered as right-wing.

Also the Fiorentina football club, should have its hall of fame striker Gabriel Batistuta in its first circle -he has a statue- while he appears in the outer circle.

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

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Post by brachkow »

stefap2 wrote: post #668

projects per year in "Ask HN: What are you working on?" 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) Top five topics per year (% of that year…

What's interesting (and kind of sad) here is that while AI drastically increased product count, more than 50% are now composed of dev tools and AI

Some kind of golden shovels situation. I wish there were more games, personal apps, and open hardware – more fun stuff that became affordable due to AI

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

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Post by jamesyun »

I'm building Orate, a free public speaking app:

• Users are given a prompt and have 2 minutes to answer.

• Speeches are reviewed by AI and other users.

Speaking eloquently "off the dome" is an incredibly useful skill, improving all your interactions with other people. And like a muscle, you can train it with dedicated practice until it becomes effortless.

It has been very fulfilling to listen to other people's speeches, knowing that we're helping each other pursue our shared goal of becoming excellent communicators.

If you're looking to improve your public speaking, I recommend you give it a try! https://apps.apple.com/il/app/orate-practice-speaking/id6761...

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

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Post by christiansafka »

Interactive real-time world models. I'm experimenting with different strategies to make them "feel good" to use, as opposed to walking through glue.

Also launching pinch.now (main quest) -- which provides instant real-time interpretation for any chrome tab or online meeting.

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

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Post by andy_ppp »

jamesyun wrote: post #887

I'm building Orate, a free public speaking app: • Users are given a prompt and have 2 minutes to answer. • Speeches are reviewed by AI and other users. Speaking eloquently "off the dome" is an incredibly useful skill, improving all your interactions with other people. And like a muscle, you can train it with dedicated practice until it becomes effortless. It has been very fulfilling to listen to other people's speech…

You could “Pokémon Go” this and allow people to find performances they find interesting on a random street corner anywhere! Great idea!

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

I recently released a total rewrite of an app that's been shipping for the last couple of years, with moderate success.

The new version gives me a baseline for adding a lot more capability, while maintaining Quality, so I'm beginning to map out the way forward.

The first thing that I'm doing, though, is revisiting most of my old dependencies with an LLM, and improving the corner case handling and documentation. That will take a while.

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