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Posted by david927 11/9/2025

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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NoiseBert69 11/9/2025|
Ultra low-power LoRa stuff with STM32 microcontrollers. Powered by solar.
eternityforest 11/10/2025|
Oh nice! What protocol are you using?
NoiseBert69 11/10/2025||
For the usual sensor stuff I stick to classic LoRaWAN. For "complex" protocols I prefer the TLV style.

Biggest trick is incorporate deep-sleep as much as possible and "waking up by interrupts". That has a big impact on your software designs.

denvercoder904 11/9/2025||
I am building a foundational layer for building C++ apps using Bazel.

I am working on creating a standardized set of paths and third party libraries that work seamlessly across multiple developer teams. Allowing library upgrades to happen transparently in the background. This will enable developers to focus on business specific logic and not have to worry about the intricacies of the build system and allowing to "magically" work in the background. This is allow foray into Bazel and using it as a learning exercise to master it.

lowkeyokay 11/10/2025||
I am working on a time tracking app. I use it to keep track of time spent vs my estimates, and also just to check my actual working hours. It's fully local—everything is stored in localStorage — but I do have plans for some optional syncing so it can be used on multiple devices.

It has helped me a lot to keep focus while working and track distractions. It might be too tailored for my needs, but have a look: https://zookeeper.fyi

iillexial 11/10/2025||
I'm working on aggregator of curated technical content https://devblogs.sh.

I started it a couple of years ago as personal project to help me study for interviews. Back then, it was simple RSS feed aggregator of big tech companies engineering blogs.

Recently I expanded content library to technical conferences and indie blogs, and implemented semantic search in all the library (for example, you can semantic search by all Strange Loop videos archive).

Give it a try!

makmanalp 11/9/2025||
I'm working on a video / post on how to solve the 1 billion row challenge (https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc) and get a competitively fast result while keeping the code readable and maintainable.

So far I'm within spitting distance of the winning entries without using any unsafe code or bit twiddling tricks or custom JVMs or anything like that, and having all the concerns nicely separated and modularized.

Excited to share soon!

merelysounds 11/9/2025||
Nonoverse[1], an iOS puzzle game about nonograms (image logic puzzles).

So far all levels have been handmade pixel art. I’m now testing machine generated puzzles with random “pixels”. This is an interesting challenge because I still want levels to be solvable and fun. I recently released 15 new puzzles like this and I’m preparing a new update with more.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/app/nonoverse-nonogram-puzzles/id6748...

ssmithTO 11/14/2025||
Started a web design agency that makes professional websites for small businesses:

https://www.getaprosite.com/

Also working on a calculator app that can be resized to large sizes (think half screen on Mac), because I can’t work with small calculator apps on my Mac.

justforfunhere 11/14/2025||
I have started working on https://framebench.dev

This is going to be a small side project which shall include utilities for working with automotive diagnostics and logging workflows.

I have to do a lot of this in my day job and that's where the idea comes from.

eternityforest 11/10/2025||
Disenhackifying one of the last pieces of my KaithemAutomation server that still feels not best practicesful.

Device driver plugins used to have a very simple flat key value, strings only format, with a set_config_properties function to tell the host what kind of UI to show.

That's all getting replaced with JSON schemas, with some auto-upgrade shims so old config keeps working.

It's one of many things that now seems completely insane, but made sense when I had way less experience a long time ago!

Also still on and off working on my BLE/WiFi based Meshtastic-alike.

lox 11/9/2025|
I'm working on a poker server to allow holdem bots to play against each other (https://github.com/lox/pokerforbots) and a Pluribus-level bot that plays on it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot)).

Enjoying writing some really fast Zig implementations of hand evaluation and CFR-based solvers.

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