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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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mindaslab 1 day ago|
https://injee.codeberg.page/

Injee - The no configuration instant Database for front end developers.

p2detar 2 days ago||
Working on new puzzles for my tiny word puzzle web game for programmers and computer science nerds.

It's a PWA and works offline. Tech: js, no libs, Canvas API, Web Audio, not vibe coded, but I did use Claude for graphics and tests. Puzzles curated by hand.

https://7coderwords.kenamick.com/

BagelsOverBread 2 days ago||
Working on an RSS reader (https://github.com/megaflorasoftware/serial), trying to see if there’s room for a FOSS RSS reader that’s a bit more fun and less brutalist than the other great but more technical user-minded options out there
bityard 2 days ago|
Thank you for having a demo!
BagelsOverBread 2 days ago||
Of course! The nice thing about making your software self-hostable is it makes setting up a demo site trivial to do
granthamctaylor 1 day ago||
I have been quietly working for the last three years: a novel hierarchical and extensible modeling framework that can cleanly and efficiently embed any json-like object for any predictive modeling task with zero feature engineering.

json2vec enables users to, for example, build tabular / transactional foundation models like TabBERT / PRAGMA dynamically... by just declaring their data schema. This is a space in which Netflix, Stripe, Revolut, Capital One, Nubank, J.P. Morgan, NVIDIA, etc. have been developing for several years.

json2vec goes a step further from just tabular data or structured transactional data. It enables arbitrary structured "json-like" observations with hierarchical BERT-like transformer encoder blocks. Financial transactions, chess positions, flight itineraries, raw tabular data, rideshare activity, ecommerce, behavioral sequence models... Any raw data able to be represented in `json` can be encoded into a tree of embeddings, and used for downstream finetuning for supervised machine learning... No feature engineering required.

https://github.com/granthamtaylor/json2vec

json2vec supports extensible plugin support for new data types (numbers, categories, raw text, datetimes, hashable objects [think: IP addresses and phone numbers], and raw embeddings), all of which may be pretrained via MLM-like self-supervised learning. If your needs are not met with the built-in datatypes, the framework is extensible in that you may build your own custom datatypes (think: geographical coordinates). Built in decision heads for a subset of datatypes enable predictive modeling multi-task and multi-array outputs (predicting fraud at a per-transaction level, or a per-account level).

json2vec also enables built in data pipelines for 100b+ training observations streaming from cloud storage. These pipelines integrate with layer of programmatic data querying and UDFs can consume the vast majority of upstream data processing so that developers don't waste time on massive batch data preprocessing jobs before model training.

Oh, and the best part: the model architectures instantiated by json2vec are mutable. Model developers can add and remove features and targets at their whim - allowing for truly reusable foundation models that can adapt for each individual use case.

My hope is that with a standardized hierarchical modeling framework, interested organizations can better collaborate with one by sharing reusable logic with one another instead of hardcoding use-case-specific architecture.

czhu12 2 days ago||
Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years.

I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.

It’s been super fun to experiment & integrate MCP into it.

We just passed 2000 developers last month actively deploying with canine.

crowdhailer 2 days ago||
Writing my own programming language eyg.run that for a long time had no syntax. I worked on a structural editor for a long time and this weekend I finally documented the sneaky text syntax that did exist for testing. So the structural editor I'm not sure about the future. The language is still fun to write and use tho.
mindaslab 1 day ago||
Kanipaan - A command line calculator https://kanipaan.codeberg.page/
wmil 1 day ago||
So I had an idea for a music app that tries to minimize the amount of music theory needed to play as a group.

Basically you pick a key, then it's just 7 buttons that play the notes in that key. Actually 21 because there are three octaves.

This has some neat effects. You can play thirds by just hitting every other button.

I wanted kids to get started playing as a group without having to worry about wrong notes. Everything is in the same key so it never sounds too bad.

There's not much to look at, I just started it last Friday. https://github.com/wmill/EasyMusic

I'll throw on some screenshots if there's any interest. I could actually use some feedback from someone who knows a bit about music, my knowledge is pretty minimal.

ateesdalejr 2 days ago||
A couple of fun random projects:

- https://shirt.cash - Vibe code your t-shirt ideas and sell them.

- This weekend was substack MCP (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHARlcInLqU)

new ideas welcome lol

nickyvanurk 2 days ago|
Been slowly chipping away at my vehicle building browser game https://mechacraft.io. For those interested in following the progress I made a discord channel: https://discord.gg/bXH66ZDBKr
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