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Posted by david927 1 day ago

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

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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marking-time 1 day ago|
A CLI to replace bookmarks in my browser because I noticed some tracking code lurking in my Firefox bookmarks. This is just personal tool for my own use. https://codeberg.org/Marking-Time/marksan
grepfru_it 1 day ago|
Tell me more about the tracking code
marking-time 1 day ago||
From the "Manage Bookmarks" applet within Firefox[Menu|Bookmarks|Manage bookmarks] choose the "Import and Backup" option at the top of the applet. Choose the "Export Bookmarks to HTML" option and save the file. This will create a HTML file on your device containing all your bookmarks.

Open the HTML file in a code/text editor. Look at one of the anchor tags and you will see the contents of "HREF", "ADD_DATE", "LAST_MODIFIED", "ICON_URI" and "ICON". Only the "HREF" is necessary to make the anchor tag functional. All of the others serve other purposes. Most of the others makes some sense, but seem obsessive to me. The longest, sometimes hundreds of characters long, is the "ICON" item. That long string of characters concerns me and looks suspiciously like the traffic I see when I use network monitor inside Inspect. To me it looks like a tracking code.

Of course I may be wrong, but none of that stuff is necessary except the HREF. The script I wrote strips off everything except the HREF, puts it in a new anchor tag, and it works fine. Really this is just old school HTML.

nickjj 1 day ago||
I've had public dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfriedrice for a long time but recently branded them and after having run native Linux for 6 months, I added a desktop environment based on using niri and Arch Linux.

It can get you up and running in a few minutes with an installer that can set up a new system or keep an existing system up to date. There's also a command line version that works on Arch and Debian based distros (including WSL 2) and macOS. I use it on my personal devices and a company issued MBP.

I'm not going to lie, I've been using computers for 25 years and this is the happiest I've ever been with using 1 machine for everything (software development, media creation, gaming, etc.).

spikepuppet 1 day ago||
I'm working on a little local first review tool called Review (though I sometimes refer to it as differ since that's it's original name) - you can see screenshots here https://x.com/rhyslikepb/status/2053149881104265599?s=20

The idea was borne out of wanting to use the review tools that you get on existing sites like GitHub, without having to push and start bloating PR lists. You'll be able to leave yourself comments and code suggestions after review, which you can then pull out in a Markdown file to feed back to your coding agent (or anything else for that matter).

I'm also trying to include some optional (very optional) AI extras where you can use your own keys, and then get a tour of what you've changed and a quick overview of the changes.

edumucelli 14 hours ago||
Fast, customizable, and extensible dock application -- fully written in Python, with built-in applets and full Linux desktop integration.

https://docking.cc

yassi_dev 1 day ago||
I am working on a framework that lets you easily create tools inside the Django Admin - https://djangocontrolroom.com

I've published several panels under this banner already (tools for redis, caches, celery, etc.); I am currently working on a base library layer for tools to inherit from and to make it easier to create new tools.

Essentially, the point of all of this is to make it so that you don't need so many external services; Instead, DCR provides self hosted alternatives. This in turn makes it a lot easier to build and productionalize something using Django.

Reception has been decent so far and I estimate several thousand current adopters (Its hard to estimate based on download numbers alone.) For May I will finalize a common design language, further formalize the plugin system and how it works, and likely release a new panel.

dbz 1 day ago||
https://www.GetSetReply.com

I'm actually looking for beta users! GetSetReply is a SaaS I've been building. It does two things for small businesses:

1. It helps you get more reviews by sending automated requests for reviews to your customers over SMS and/or email after they purchase from you (PoS Integrated / Manual Sending)

2. The second is helping you reply to the reviews you already have with AI-generated drafts in your brand's voice that you can send to Google/Yelp/TripAdvisor.

I'm very grateful to anyone who is willing to test or provide feedback. If you create an account (it's free with no credit card or integrations required), I'll reach out! Or you can email me via my email in my profile.

thearn4 17 hours ago||
Good old fashioned machine learning (GOFML?) Using mixes of different sensor data from industrial 3d printing processes to production quality. Not as fashionable as LLMs at the moment but there's new innovations to make in the space, so it's honest work.
bad2j 16 hours ago||
Working on a tool to speed up iterations of backtesting Algo trading strategies (https://foxtradetools.com/):

- Visual tool for building strategies

- Backtest on site or MT5 EA using same json configurations

- Running EA live (or paper mode) in prod automatically feeds the trades back to the site for analysis

- The thing I am most happy with: you can click any trade in backtest result and see exactly which rules were true at the bar that fired

You can try it in action w/o signup using taster page (https://foxtradetools.com/taster)

Solo dev. Open to any feedback.

drewsonian 1 day ago||
I’ve been building (launched in Feb) a home phone service for families who want to put off the smartphone for as long as possible, but still give young kids the ability to communicate via landline. https://chatterboxphone.com
justhw 20 hours ago|
I've been working on https://thumbnail.ai/ full time for a year now. It lets you make thumbnails for your social media and youtube videos with preset templates. Going great so far. I'm looking for a marketer/content creator to grow it.
taegee 20 hours ago|
I'm sorry, but this is precisely the reason I'm using DeArrow.

https://dearrow.ajay.app/

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