Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by wewewedxfgdf » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:28 AM UTC

justforfunhere wrote: post #354

It would be great if these posting could have tags like below prefixed at the top by the poster. [HUMAN-CODE] - code written by humans [AGENT-CODE] - code written by Claude/Codex/Other agents out there [HYBRID] - Combination of Humans/Agents I would prefer to go through projects where people are writing code themselves. And this kind of tagging would help me filter through easily.

Just assume all are [AGENT-CODE] unless otherwise specified.

There's no reason to write code any more by hand, except as a hobby/fun/art or to comply with some requirement.

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

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Post by mimo84 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:28 AM UTC

variodot wrote: post #609

https://shopspec.io/ ShopSpec is a deterministic parametric furniture generator (bookshelves, cabinets, shop carts, leg-and-rail frames, multi-carcass composites) that encodes real woodworking intelligence and outputs shop-ready artifacts. Most recently, introduced the concept of value engineering by sweeping across dimensions to batch evaluate candidates that ranks based on sheet purchases. Also have in beta an MCP…

Wow that's really cool! I'm actually trying to learn about woodworking and using those example as a base are really great! You could consider having an option for metric users as well!

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

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Post by rushil_b_patel » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC

woutr_be wrote: post #387

I'm still working on https://openaltfinder.com ; a place to help you discover open source alternatives. Got quite a lot of traction this month due to Google/Apple Maps renaming Lake Ontario. But overall it's a struggle, the site is still in Google jail/sandbox, so it's not even seeing any Google impressions. So most traffic is due to being very active and posting wherever I can.

Good one

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

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Post by davidweatherall » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:31 AM UTC

A valorant / cs2 AI-powered aim trainer.

The way it works is you play a game of valorant, or cs2, then after the match you're able to look at the times where you missed your shot, enter our AI aim trainer, and it boots up that exact same moment, with enemies following their exact same pathing, with gunplay feeling as close to 1:1 as possible with the game you're trying to improve on.

It figures this out 2 ways:

Firstly is purely based on visual clues, I have a custom trained vision model to detect the enemies, and a great algorithm to look at a minimap to infer exactly where the user's position is.

Alternatively if the user can download the replay file, we can decode it to grab real time positions / timestamp times etc to perfectly replicate exactly what happened in the match.

Posted on reddit / x about this last week, got some positive feedback, here it is if you want to see an early prototype:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AgentAcademy/comments/1w965a9/feedb...

https://x.com/dWeaths/status/2096683901162824175

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

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Post by kukkeliskuu » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:32 AM UTC

m-i-l wrote: post #521

kukkeliskuu wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One idea I had for getting to the tail: filter out sites that appear to use SSO.

I presume you mean SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) rather than SSO (Single Sign On). Six years ago I launched a boutique search engine which downranks pages which contain adverts on them (the theory being that this would remove the incentive for creating spam) and of course contains no adverts itself (to avoid what Brin & Page described as being "inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of c…

Yes, SEO, wrote the comment in rush, sorry. I am running a very popular dance calendar site in Finland that contains very relevant information, in very condensed format, but has some ads that are highly relevant for readers. I see why you might want to avoid ad based sites, but I think there may be some relevant sites that you will miss.

The site https://tanssi.io

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

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Post by nickreffitt » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:33 AM UTC

Koaisu wrote: post #562

nickreffitt wrote: post #545

Fluir, a web app that improves Spanish speaking beyond A2 https://getfluir.app I hit a plateau with my learning, having used Duolingo + tutor. It was only until I tried to read a book that I felt like I was making real progress. Highlighting words in Kindle, exporting them to Anki, then feeding back my progress to my tutor was fiddly and not a good use of my time. Also practicing my speaking once a day wasn't enough.…

How do you generate stories that match the respective level? I tried generating stories in Chinese (which I would say has a large learner base as well) and it never really worked except for something like A1/A2. Also, recognizing which level a story is did not work for me. Edit: And a second question: do you support exporting the studies vocabulary as Anki or csv/…?

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

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Post by nickreffitt » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC

gr__or wrote: post #558

nickreffitt wrote: post #545

Fluir, a web app that improves Spanish speaking beyond A2 https://getfluir.app I hit a plateau with my learning, having used Duolingo + tutor. It was only until I tried to read a book that I felt like I was making real progress. Highlighting words in Kindle, exporting them to Anki, then feeding back my progress to my tutor was fiddly and not a good use of my time. Also practicing my speaking once a day wasn't enough.…

Neat! I'm working on a similar thing but mine is not as far along, and slightly more focused on what I call "subtitled reading" (interleaving source and target language lines of text). Small UI feedback: the WORD LOOKUP sheet has UI design disease, i.e. imo too much text. I'd drop "WORD LOOKUP" and "CURRENTLY SAVING". Also behind the latter the current word is repeated (it's already the title of the sheet), so I'd dr…

Awesome, let me know when your ready for testers, happy to help!

Thanks for the UI feedback, will sort that today :)

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

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Post by ivanr » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:40 AM UTC

Feisty Duck's Cryptography & Security News: https://www.feistyduck.com/news/

It's a news aggregator focused on furthering our understanding of how cryptography is evolving. We're aiming to monitor the people on the ground who are doing the actual work, and amplify them.

The front page is a curated low-volume stream, but there's an all-news feed as well.

After producing Feisty Duck's Newsletter [1] for 12+ years, I built this for myself to make my life [following events] easier, but decided that it might be useful to others as well.

[1] https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/

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

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Post by vinhnx » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC

I've been building VT Code for about a year as a way to understand how coding-agent harnesses work in practice. This month I'm continuing building it https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode.

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

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Post by _usefulcat » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC

https://puzzmallow.com I build logic and word puzzles. I like to design original variants of classics like nonograms and sudoku - such as using hexes instead of a square grid, introducing new rules and concepts.