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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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edumucelli 17 hours ago|
Fast, customizable, and extensible dock application -- fully written in Python, with built-in applets and full Linux desktop integration.

https://docking.cc

cdnsteve 22 hours ago||
Working on a way for us to communicate software changes properly with people, systems and AI.

I'm frustrated at how we just do library updates and get whatever is next. Things break. Finding a changelog sucks. Vendor updates maybe put something in X.

We can do better so I'm starting an open initiative to tackle that.

hy-token 1 day ago||
I am working on Liel (https://hy-token.github.io/liel/), a tool that can compare and integrate LLM memory as single file.

Instead of saving LLM memory in Markdown, I want to manage it using a graph structure to easily record the relationships between tasks and decisions, and persist when, why, and how they changed.

dvrp 1 day ago||
Figuring out the meaning of it all.

I thought sharpening my craft in software for a decade would help; but, the more I read ancient scriptures, the more sense they started making -- and this is as someone who's been mostly agnostic.

Seeing people working on nostalgic apps, wealth-pursuing prompt management tools, or ideological open-source alternatives. I've worked myself in many types of software of similar kinds, and I've found.. not much at the other side of the pursuit.

Some call it “הֶבֶל”; “तृष्णा”; or, “تَكَاثَرَ”...

Still working on it.

tophattom 1 day ago||
I'm slowly but surely working on a first update to my Android app, Tunemark (https://tunemark.app), which I released a while ago. Tunemark lets you add bookmarks to moments in songs so that it is easy to jump back to them. It is really convenient when practicing dancing or music and you need to constantly reset back to specific parts of songs. Unlike most DJ-type apps that could serve similar use cases, Tunemark works with most music apps, including streaming services.

I have new features such as sharing bookmarks and possibly BPM detection planned but also some quality of life changes like better UI scalability for different size screens/split screen use.

troebr 1 day ago||
I'm making a surf forecasting site a la surfline.com, I started mostly to have an API to use for my tidbyt, but I figured I might as well make it a full thing and built my own features! It's on quickswell.com but it's only Socal at this time (fewer spots to compute)
sedatesteak 1 day ago||
My friends and I went to Japan for a holiday a year or two ago. Every bar had an electronic dartboard and we all decided to get one when we got home.

We all did, only to discover that for the three of us we could either play 1v1 or 1v2 with one person having twice as many turns as each other person (and they would always win).

If you play on one board locally you can do 1v1v1. It makes no sense.

I have an esp32 syncing to the board and forwarding the hits to a client written in godot. I'm now spinning up the server for stats tracking etc.

We just want to play darts...

solfox 23 hours ago||
[BestInterest](https://bestinterest.app) helps coparents find peace by automatically filtering out anything that isn't child-focused from their coparent's messages. Ensures court order compliance and reduces conflict.
stagas 1 day ago||
I recently switched to developing VST audio plugins and I'm loving it. Already done 3 [0][1][2] and I want to keep doing this if I manage to generate some income from it. I develop them in Typescript and then convert them to C++ with Webview, this way I have a web demo of the plugin that is almost identical to the one you get for the DAW.

[0]: https://technokick.com/ (Techno Kick synth)

[1]: https://riviera-demo.surge.sh/ (Reverb effect)

[2]: https://ya3.surge.sh/ (TB-303 synth clone)

bmalicoat 1 day ago|
Learning how to make custom PCBs and 3d printing. I really like Radio Taiso (daily calisthenics synced with music), so I made a dedicated speaker (https://www.taisospkr.com). It was fun to add new tools to my tool belt (ESP32, remote firmware updates, embedded website, streamlined wifi setup). Already have a new project based on a very similar architecture that I'm super excited about! Making PCBs and hardware has never been easier as a solo developer.
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