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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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bad2j 21 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.

cdnsteve 1 day 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.

asciimoo 1 day ago||
I'll continue to work on https://github.com/asciimoo/hister as much as I can. I plan to add new extractors and optimize the indexer storage usage by moving out HTML/favicon content from the index and storing them in an efficient compressed way.

Hister is a free general purpose web search engine providing automatic full-text indexing for visited websites.

_fizz_buzz_ 1 day ago||
I have been experimenting on using AI for hardware development. I showed some experiments on HN a couple of weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801255). I am now trying to make my approach a little bit more comprehensive and structured, instead of several disjoint MCP servers, a single platform that connects lab instruments to AI assistants: https://teasel.tools/

As a demo, I repaired an old Philips PM5190 function generator (about 40 years old) and connected it to Claude Code. Lots of fun. Going to post a follow up video the next couple of days.

Kuyawa 1 day ago||
Just finished an app that allows you to track every rep, set, and weight at the gym. Decaboy — the ultimate gym companion for serious bodybuilders

https://decaboy.fit

Built in 15 minutes with mecha-ai my own code assistant using DeepSeek

https://github.com/kuyawa/mecha-ai

Right now working on a betting app, DeepSeek is fairy dust and Mecha is my magic wand, I am unstoppable!

* If you need an app I can build anything and I mean anything in one day for peanuts, just let me know

edumucelli 19 hours ago||
Fast, customizable, and extensible dock application -- fully written in Python, with built-in applets and full Linux desktop integration.

https://docking.cc

nodivbyzero 1 day ago||
A small, generic Go library for retrying fallible operations with exponential backoff and pluggable jitter strategies. https://github.com/nodivbyzero/try
VoxelBoy 1 day ago||
A way to track versions of ALL software and notify users about new version.

Started with a niche and launched it: VersionAlert for Unity (https://versionalert.com/unity)

Working on the bigger product still. Existing solutions I've found in this space seemed lacking. On my website, I want people to quickly find the software they want to be kept up to date about (with a smart search bar that does the heavy lifting for them) and easily sign up for notifications for new versions. Hope to make a Show HN for it soon!

7237139812 1 day ago||
I've been working on a web based tool to review markdown and HTML collaboratively with your agents. Wrote about it on my blog. No aspirations to make it more widely available just yet. I'm mostly focusing on getting it right for my day-to-day (making it feel light and easy).

https://shivan.dev/writing/post/markdown-wrangling

metanoia_ 1 day ago|
I continue to write. Unsure the end goal but in my recent dispatch I learned to get out of my way, stop intellectualizing life and let it be.

https://www.metanoia-research.com/

mikestorrent 1 day ago|
Read your most recent piece and I like it. Beat generation sort of feel, extemporaneous, haunting in a good way. Keep writing even if only a handful of people read it.
metanoia_ 1 day ago||
Thank you, much appreciated!
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