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Posted by david927 2 days 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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grahammccain 1 day ago|
Chartlibrary.io - an intelligence layer for AI agents rooted in chart pattern search. Return 500 similar stock charts to the one you a looking at. Give those distributions stats to an agent, disect into buckets by variables. I think it’s a new way to interact with stocks for the agentic world.
jtbetz22 2 days ago||
I'm continuing to focus on ways to set strong code quality guardrails in an era where most code is not handwritten.

The result is http://getcaliper.dev.

It has a number of mechanisms that help substantially:

1. It can extract deterministic quality checks from your CLAUDE.md text; these checks then get executed after every agent turn.

2. It performs a lightweight ai-powered review at every commit; feedback goes directly to the agent, which can then make corrections.

3. It performs a more 'traditional' deep AI review at merge, or on-demand.

Free to use, just bring your own API key. Any and all feedback is welcome!

lnenad 1 day ago||
Since I don't like the UI and UX of the current offering of diagramming tools I've made https://grafly.io. Fully local, open source, export/import and embed sharing.

And since I don't like the complexity of logging/metrics SaaS offerings I made https://logdot.io.

paulhallett 2 days ago||
I’m working on a tiny terminal config / dotfiles / tool installation manager so I can keep everything in sync between my machines. Also includes profiles so I can tailor each machine how I see fit. https://github.com/phalt/pauldot

It’s intended just me for and follows a philosophy around hyper personal software that I’ve been developing: https://paulwrites.software/articles/hyps/

JKCalhoun 1 day ago||
Closing up work on my modular, hobbyist, analog computer. (Finishing up the manual—the hardware is already a wrap).

Something I can finally enjoy: just playing with it. I tediously wired up a pair of pendulum simulations to drive an XY oscilloscope—got a nice Lissajous curve.

But now I want to double it to four pendulums. Each axis (still just X and Y) to be driven by the sum of a pair of pendulums. With them out of phase, the curves appear to sometimes collapse but then suddenly explode again…

(Love to eventually hook it up to an actual plotter.)

mdxmaker 2 days ago||
Working on a md file eidtor for average users to use, by click buttons like MS word.

https://hellomdx.com/

- Built with Tauri — installer is small and start-up is near-instant on all three OSes. - No accounts, no telemetry, no MDX server in the loop. Sync goes through whatever cloud folder you already have (iCloud / Drive / Dropbox / a plain directory). - Tab-to-accept ghost-writing is bring-your-own-key

- Exports to PDF, HTML, DOCX. Tables, math, diagrams, code blocks all live behind toolbar buttons — no syntax to memorise.

Hope to have some people like it and use it.

nateb2022 5 hours ago||
Might be worthwhile to note that Google Docs now supports Export to Markdown
alok-g 2 days ago||
Any plans to support mobile as well? I'm lookimg to replace OmniNotes on Android.
mdxmaker 2 days ago||
good idea, i am thinking about it, but i guess it will be not that rich in formatting like the desktop app, the architecture design here using "vault" is a 'problem' for extend to mobile, maybe a lightweight re-designed version :-)
alok-g 20 hours ago||
I would not mind less formatting features, in as much as editing on mobile does not mess with the desktop version.

Rather, usability on mobile would be a key priority for me. I find OmniNotes very nice for mobile. The primary reason to move away is limitations on synchronizing with desktop (I use SyncThing). On the other hand, I find Obsidian for mobile not very mobile-friendly.

PS: I had attempted to code such an app using Flutter (text-only first), however, ran into issues with security permissions on Android, and gave up after some 6-7 days of struggling with it.

bramadityaw 1 day ago||
I am working on blase (https://github.com/bramadityaw/blase), a language server for Laravel's Blade templating language. This is a proof-of-concept project that I plan to make into a submodule inside a more general PHP language server.
mts_building 1 day ago||
I’m an app developer and I used to have my laptop (mainly Mac but also have a Windows one) and a monitor. I would create apps for IOS on my Mac and eventually upgrade it to also work on Android. Now I have 2 monitors, one linked to my Mac and the other to my Windows laptop. This way I can simultaneously develop for both platforms at the same time.
division_by_0 2 days ago||
A correlation network viz (using Cytoscape.js) of this S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 correlation matrix (built with Svelte):

https://cybernetic.dev/matrix

bormaj 2 days ago|
Pretty neat suite of visuals there! What's the helix intended to represent?
division_by_0 1 day ago||
Thank you, I appreciate it. The helix simply renders candlestick data (OHLC) in 3D, with volume encoded in logaritmically scaled candle thickness. There's more info on the about page of the experiment: https://cybernetic.dev/helix/about
trusche 1 day ago|
As a data-obsessed golfer trying to get to single digits, I need a tracking app that picks up where Arccos leaves off. So I'm building one: https://shortgamewiz.com (still a bit WIP).

After a few rounds of using it, I already know a few things I didn't before: I suck at right-to-left breaking putts, I baby uphill putts too much, and getting out of bunkers consistently is not good enough if I can't sink the occasional save. So I know what to practice now.

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