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

Posted by david927 4 days ago

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

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goldenCeasar 4 days ago|

I’m building a typed, array-oriented dataflow compiler that takes small declarative schemas and emits plain Ruby and JavaScript, with a C path. It has a mid-end with inlining, common subexpression elimination, constant folding, dead code elimination, loop fusion, and LICM.

Demo to try it out: https://kumi-play-web.fly.dev/

GitHub: https://github.com/amuta/kumi

dukedylan 4 days ago||

I made a direnv-like utility which hooks into your shell to allow using Nix flakes for dev envs / dev shells anywhere:

https://github.com/dfrankland/envoluntary

This helped me bridge the gap between installing packages declaratively via NixOS / home-manager and defining them for each project being worked in via flake.nix / direnv / nix-direnv; which was needed since most projects don't use Nix.

santah 4 days ago||

20 years and counting, working on https://next-episode.net (it's a TV/Movies tracking website and community).

I've dedicated this week to some maintenance tasks that are long overdue (mainly modernization of the code and the database), kinda delaying the inevitable (which is to work on harder tasks in my todo - like adding features to the mobile apps).

vstuart 2 days ago||

I hand-curate a bespoke ontology related to my personal, independent research interests.

https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/wpi-ontology.pdf

zygentoma 4 days ago||

https://opengl.zgtm.eu/

A small OpenGL tutorial for Rust. Focus on understanding the OpenGL-API and interfacing with it directly, with a few as possible helper libraries.

Some of the chapters I'm currently working on can be found in the preview (https://preview.opengl.zgtm.eu/, ipv6 only).

rasulkireev 2 days ago||

Working on generation reliability for TuxSEO. The product is good, but needs to be more reliable. Once that is done, I will move onto the link exchange program. https://tuxseo.com/

michalbilinski 4 days ago||

I’m working on a games website called https://minigames.world It’s really low budget, but the idea might be interesting to you. It’s a Laravel app that’s solely interactable through a TUI application, so Claude Code can help me operate it. To support my decision-making, I analyze collected data with Jupyter notebooks. I’ve been working on this since early October 2025.

yboris 4 days ago||

Next release of my app (8 years since initial release) - adding minor features and minor bugfixes.

Video Hub App - browse your local video files with a beautiful interface (and scrub-able thumbnails to see multiple screenshots)

$5 for anyone https://videohubapp.com Free for anyone https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

aswinmohanme 4 days ago|

A modern QuickBooks, based on beancount, WorkBill (https://workbill.co). You can play with it at https://demo.workbill.co.

Unlike traditional accounting platforms we expose the ledger model directly which enables our customers to model complex transactions even when we do not have direct support for it.

Been working on this for a month, and it uses Elixir, Phoenix and InertiaJS with React.

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