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Posted by david927 2 days ago

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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cheschire 2 days ago|
Creating my own models in Blender for 3D printing. Currently creating replacement wings for a hummingbird whirligig yard decoration that broke a couple years ago. It’s a sentimental gift and I’ve hated the idea of throwing it away.

Physical engineering is a huge welcome transition for me from what coding has become in the last couple years.

There’s something nice about the realities of creating a model, then printing it, then seeing that exact is too exact, then reprinting, then eight more times, and then that feeling when it all comes together properly.

A few weeks ago I was working on an adapter for an airbrush to use on a standard pancake air compressor. Learning to create threads in blender was really neat! I learned a lot about the physical construction of threads, something I have never put much thought into before.

thewoodsman 2 days ago||
There is something so wildly cool about having an idea, modeling it, and a few hours later holding a physical instantiation of the thing that previously just existed in your head. Something we software people don't get to experience often enough.
dv35z 2 days ago||
Can you share details about Blender CAD/CAM capabilities? I have a CNC router (carves 3D shapes into wood), and exploring what tools can help with that. I keep hearing about Blender's CAD abilities - I don't know Blender well, so I haven't jumped in there...
fainpul 1 day ago||
Blender is not the right tool for that. I think you'll be happier with an actual CAD tool like Fusion or FreeCAD.
Akuehne 15 hours ago||
Building a local llm to manage my homelab, and eventually my life.

As long as I don't let it control the pod bay doors, I should be fine.

csomar 2 days ago||
https://codeinput.com - Currently working on a comprehensive CODEOWNERS solution. Check out the CLI @ https://github.com/code-input/cli - Chrome Extension @ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/code-input/fehfhejp... and VS Code extension @ https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=codeinpu...
friggeri 2 days ago||
I’ve been training an alphazero style model for an abstract strategy game I created 20 years ago. It’s been really fun learning about MCTS and figuring out how to optimize all parts of the pipeline to be able to train on ~millions of moves for ~hundreds of dollars.
idea0rbit 2 days ago||
I’m building an observability system that tries to surface answers instead of making people dig through huge amounts of raw telemetry.

The basic idea is that when one failure fans out across 20 services, you often end up with 20 alerts and 20 separate investigations, even though there is really just one root cause. I’m using distributed tracing to build a live model of how errors propagate through the system, and then exposing that context directly at each affected service.

Longer term, I want this to become a very high-precision RCA engine. Right now I’m looking to try it with a few early design partners that already have a lot of tracing data, especially OpenTelemetry or Datadog APM users. I'll love to chat with some folks who would be willing to try it out!

sourishkundu23 2 days ago|
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pikkoloassembly 1 day ago||
We're automating low-volume PCB assembly in the US!

https://pikkoloassembly.com/

andreybaskov 1 day ago|
That's cool! Do you have any info on how manufacturing is done in the US?
OliverGuy 2 days ago||
https://gitlab.com/usecaliper/caliper-python-sdk

An LLM observability SDK that let's you store pre and post request metadata with every call in as lightweight an SDK as possible.

Stores to S3 in batched JSON files, so can easily plug into existing tooling like DuckDB for analysis.

It's designed to answer questions like; "how do different user tiers of my services rate this two different models and three different systems prompts?". You can capture all the information required to answer this in the SDK and do some queries over the data to get the answers.

vldszn 2 days ago||
I’m working on a Free and Open-Source Invoice Generator: https://easyinvoicepdf.com

- No sign-up, works entirely in-browser

- Live PDF preview + instant PDF download

- Flexible Tax Support: VAT, GST, Sales Tax, and custom tax formats with automatic calculations

- Shareable invoice links

- Multi-language (10+) and 120+ currencies

- Multiple templates (incl. Stripe-style)

- Mobile-friendly

- QR Code Support: Add payment QR codes with any invoice-related information (payment links, UPI, contact details, custom data)

- Multi-Page PDFs: Seamless multi-page support with automatic pagination and page breaks

GitHub: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf

Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas for other templates/features.

PS: e-invoice support is wip

anotheryou 1 day ago||
Delving on to personalized software again now that AI agents code it for me with little hand holding.

Instead of building scrips here and there I'm attempting my own everything app. Lets see if that's a good idea :).

Starting with android home screen and widget sync to server/desktop. So e.g. calendar notifications happen desktop first, then escalate to mobile etc. Also phone as mousepad (for using my projector from bed). Just feature creeping it all in without regrets so far.

In general I feel like feature creep needs to be reevaluated. UX must not be destroyed, but features cost less now.

Havoc 1 day ago|
Doing similar except decided against a single app. Lots of small apps behind a reverse proxy with mTLS auth instead.
anotheryou 1 day ago||
cool! what features?

I have or am planning:

- escalating reminders

- always on display

- upcoming meetings / calendar

- have "website + prompt = widget" app that needs integration

- want 2 tier prio email filter (important, personal, ignore rest)

- android launcher with decent ergonomics (match "ff" to firefox, most used prioritized, launch with enter etc.)

- maybe some agent integration

WasAnArchitect 2 days ago|
I am working on a free node based solids modeller perfect for 3d printing, carpentry or hobbyists. Its roughly similar to Rhino/Grasshopper. I call it Nodillo!

Check out this twisty vase demo: https://nodillo3d.com/s/VmP0nJdKRcPazQ1g

You can also share you files and create sharable configurations as well. Here is the same vase as a configurator: https://nodillo3d.com/v/a9REIEZIDYGtzZRA

I would like to do a more detailed intro class to help people learn how to model with nodes.

Hope you enjoy it!

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