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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 stelabouras »

Noraneko - https://noraneko.cat

Lots of strays where I live, so I wanted an app to photograph and identify street cats and help get them adopted. Written mostly with Claude.

The recognition runs on device: Apple Vision detects the cat, DINOv2-Small decides whether it's one already in your library, SigLIP2 names the coat.

No accounts and no backend. There's a trading mechanic on top where you can trade cards via Wi-Fi (with Bluetooth as a fallback) and levels for both the user and each cat.

You can also turn any cat into a shareable adoption poster.

TestFlight is open, so feel free to try it.

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

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Post by _madmax_ »

afiodorov wrote: post #699

Queryable climate data for major cities. The main question I'm trying to answer is: where can I maximize the number of comfortable hours I can spend outdoors, whether doing light activity or just sitting around? DeepSeek can query a processed climate dataset directly, and other agents can use the same interface: https://climate.fiodorov.es --- See also: https://hn.fiodorov.es for RAG search across Hacker News comment…

How are you using deepseek to keep your cost low when your traffic explodes ?

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

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Post by daaysjavu »

For my fellow ravers: https://fourierx.ai

I made a tiny ML model (~2.4 mil parameters) that can mix music in a never-ending continuous stream where transitions between tracks are 20-60+ seconds long.

It's currently just streaming from my own personal music collection that I have bought over the years, which is primarily DnB so it's pretty niche at the moment.

I've been working on this on and off for the past few years to learn more about machine learning and other technologies that I was interested in.

It uses HTTP3 WebTransport on Chrome, but falls back to WebSocket for the other browsers.

If anybody likes listening to music this way, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

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

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Post by fl4tul4 »

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…

nowadays, with LLMs, everybody is calling themselves a developer doing any kind of project. Welcome to the future!

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

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Post by elesiuta »

I'm working on a coding agent with built in sandboxing to restrict network access or filesystem access of commands run. It also has a few other interesting features I haven't seen in other agents and I'm currently focusing on polishing the UX across its cli, tui, and web ui. It's not quite ready for use yet and I've only recently begun dogfooding it. https://github.com/agent6-dev/agent6/

I also recently resumed working on picosnitch, a per executable network monitor for Linux. I rewrote the UI, ported the core from BCC to BPF CO-RE, and used AI to benchmark the completeness and accuracy of it. I let AI decide the tests entirely on it's own to hopefully eliminate any of my bias and published the results here [1]. It identified one gap I'll be fixing in the next release, and is currently the most complete and accurate bandwidth monitor on Linux.

[1] https://elesiuta.github.io/picosnitch/comparison/

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

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Post by ciroduran »

I've been vibe coding a way to stream my music files collection. Right now I have a server in my NAS which serves a website that streams my music, like an Internet radio but on my local network. I've been very happy to rediscover my collection, especially when I wake up and let it put something random. Maybe it could be something that I could use beyond my local network? (for personal use, of course), what I have now is already making me happy.

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

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Post by afiodorov »

_madmax_ wrote: post #702
afiodorov wrote: post #699

Queryable climate data for major cities. The main question I'm trying to answer is: where can I maximize the number of comfortable hours I can spend outdoors, whether doing light activity or just sitting around? DeepSeek can query a processed climate dataset directly, and other agents can use the same interface: https://climate.fiodorov.es --- See also: https://hn.fiodorov.es for RAG search across Hacker News comment…

How are you using deepseek to keep your cost low when your traffic explodes ?

So far really wasn't an issue - I put $5 there and forgot about it. If traffic explodes will probably offer bring your own key or add credits/ads. Also just providing MCP for your agent to use is an option.
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