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

Posted by david927 2 days ago

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

275 points | 1038 commentspage 38

davidcann 2 days ago|

Buildermark calculates how much of your code is written by agents. Open source, local, and cross-platform (written in Go).

https://buildermark.dev

ghostfoxgod 1 day ago||

I'm building (or rather rebuilding/pivoting my focus) CatchIntent (https://CatchIntent.com). The intent layer for B2B outbound.

The marketing site is stale with our previous offering, the demo of upcoming product is here: https://vimeo.com/1190884516

saltwatercowboy 1 day ago||

Slapping together an image dithering toolkit to help with album cover stylization. Partly making sure I can replicate it down the line... but also finding an aesthetic, non-commercial motivation I thought I'd forgotten at work.

Some finished covers (https://saltwatercowboy.github.io/albedo/pages/en-10-05-26.h...). Next up pixel sorting.

xvok 1 day ago||

CoPilot for Project Management, trying to automate a lot of the tedium either PMs or unwilling, but forced EMs do to manage their work across tools: status updates, task updates, project docs, etc.

https://quickapproveai.com

jchap 2 days ago||

Tryke! A Rust-based Python test runner with a Jest-style API.

https://github.com/thejchap/tryke

ajkajkajk 2 days ago||

I’m working on bomberman in ClojureScript, using no libraries, and making sure I write every line myself, it feels good to go slowly for a change having used a lot of LLMs in the past year.

spmartin823 1 day ago||

I’m building AI tools for click based workflows, starting with wordpress sites. Clicks run the world and AI needs to run on clicks!

If you want to check it out: https://presspass.ai

If you think this is stupid or you know of a more annoying “click based” workflow that should be automated, let me know! I’m early and need more thoughts.

djeastm 1 day ago||

https://www.triviascroll.com

I wanted to make it easier to quickly see/study trending articles on Wikipedia because they tend to make good topics to know before going to trivia night.

I've had the domain for awhile, but just made the app recently on a whim.

I use Wikimedia's api to get the trending articles, curate them a bit, add some annotations to provide some context, then push to deploy the static site.

simonpure 1 day ago||

I've been working on a pure Clojure implementation of WebRTC Data Channels (SCTP over DTLS over UDP). The library provides a minimal, dependency-free (except for Clojure itself) way to establish peer-to-peer data channels on the JVM.

I've always wanted this and have used it to experiment with Gemini's cloud agent Google Jules.

https://github.com/alpeware/datachannel-clj

kylecazar 1 day ago|

Cool project. I'd be interested to hear your general impressions of Jules (as the somewhat forgotten agent).

simonpure 1 day ago||

Thanks! I've noticed a big jump when they switched to Gemini 3.1 Pro and it really became useful. I like that I can use it from my phone too. It took a bit of trial and error but I came up with a good ralph loop between GitHub Actions and Google Jules using the Jules API. So basically I have Jules extend its TODO.md with the next set of tasks and open a PR then run a GitHub Action with a few checks, auto-merge, and then call back into Jules to kick off the next cycle if there are still open tasks. It then mostly just runs and occasionally gets hang up on some questions that I then answer on my phone mostly just telling it to make a judgement call and keep the build green. You can check out the prompt, action, and past PRs for examples ex. Jules prompt is here: https://github.com/alpeware/datachannel-clj/blob/main/prompt...

kylecazar 10 hours ago||

Very cool, thanks! I have an under-utilized Google AI Max plan and this has inspired me to investigate Jules further (and Antigravity for that matter). It's been a while since I've checked in with Google's AI suite.

I have an upcoming project in Flutter, and maybe it's wishful thinking, but my intuition is that perhaps Google has top-tier LLM performance within their own ecosystem relative to peers.

powerpurple 1 day ago|

I recently started a project called best web extension https://bestwebextension.com/

Basically attempting to modernize a lot of browser extension which I have been using since like a decade ago. Some of them are outdated and unmaintained and some were good for the time.

The project is MIT licensed.

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