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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 eclipticplane »

jonahss wrote: post #816

I had claude faithfully rewrite SimTower so I could play it in the browser: https://kvetch.io/conciliatower I wanted to re-play SimTower but found it too difficult to get running through emulation. Instead, I worked for 6 months with Claude Code on a complete rewrite, replicating all the functionality from a Ghidra decompilation of the binary, an AI-generated summary of the original source code and my memory of the g…

Did you fix any of the underlying numeric limits in the original game?

There's a hard cap to 127 instances of commercial spaces. 128 onward won't get any visitors. Too many office workers will overwhelm your limited commercial spaces and thus leave the tower for lunch, over-taxing your elevators.

And yes - elevators are hard!

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

Jemaclus wrote: post #751

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.…

This looks cool. Good luck to you.

One piece of feedback: I can’t make sense of the logo. Its a message bubble and … ?

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

epiccoleman wrote: post #783
SebRollen wrote: post #696

I'm building https://uscodex.org . In a nutshell, the goal is to collect all US federal law in version control, and cross-link any references between different sections. Currently I have the US Code, CFR, ~30 years of public laws and congressional bills and 25 years of executive orders. Actually using raw git repos as the main data store which has worked out great since the US Code changes very little between new rel…

Hoo boy. It's an awesome idea, don't get me wrong - and it's work that should definitely be done. But I've worked professionally in this space and it is wildly complicated. I've never seen how things are done on the federal side, but US states have various modes of "electronic filing" for rules and codes - and there's a ton of complexity. It's the kind of thing that sounds insanely boring on the surface, but there's…

>"people who are not elected but who work for the government and are surprisingly important"

That’s just the regular definition of deep state. The difference is simply that you arent using it as a pejorative.

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

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Post by g023 »

Working on a DeepSeek V4.x coding harness. Added ability for the llm to set its own reasoning for each response, bi-directional communication between subagents, added a todo sub orchestrator that for each task a subagent does, it passes its issues surfaced to the next subagent that is completing the next task, so that it fixes those issues before beginning its task, better cost effective processing, capping reasoning at 75% to curb overthinking, better cost efficiency management. https://github.com/g023/g023code

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

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Post by amterp »

Continuing to work on Kan, an offline Kanban board which operates on plain text files in your repo, so you can just commit the entire board into Git!

I'm finding it really good for agentic work these days as, using the kan CLI, agents do really well with it for tracking work and leveraging the board. I'm using it for all my projects these days.

https://github.com/amterp/kan

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