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Posted by david927 12 hours ago

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

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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jsomau 10 hours ago|
A small thing I've been building as an antidote to doomscrolling. Open a new tab and see a public domain artwork from a real museum: https://toregard.art

Mostly I wanted more art and colour in my workday - something to look at, learn through and draw inspiration from in the moments between meetings and code. You can create an account to save your favourites and curate your own gallery. Just released collections that you can make public.

Art from: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Institute of Chicago. Rijksmuseum. Cleveland Museum of Art.

a-arbabian 9 hours ago|
good stuff, thanks for sharing
wbobeirne 2 hours ago||
I have been going regularly to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and their app is always terrible. Connectivity is very spotty since the city is swarmed with way more people than usual and the older buildings can kill your signal.

So I've been working on https://fringeflypost.com/, an event tracker with maps, search and filter, scheduling, and sharing with friends that's offline first. It syncs down a locally stored sqlite database and caches assets pretty aggressively.

(You don't actually need to sign up, and you can just jump into the list of shows directly here https://fringeflypost.com/shows).

loganboyd 8 hours ago||
I’m working on a tensor computing language/compiler called i with a simple explicit scheduling model (loop splitting, loop ordering, input “staging”). These mechanisms alone are enough to express complex algorithms like FlashAttention, generating target code with techniques like loop fusion, minimized intermediate allocations, and “online” reductions.

Right now there is a runtime and compiler targeting C, written in dependency-free Rust, and a minimal Python frontend. The project is very much proof-of-concept stage so not yet fast. Working on a CUDA backend now.

The goal is to enable automatic discovery of FlashAttention-style optimizations which is not feasible with current compilers.

Very open to feedback/discussion from anybody interested in or knowledgeable about tensor compilers!

repo: https://github.com/ilang-dev/i

gbro3n 10 hours ago||
https://www.asnotes.io - a Foam / Dendron / Obsidian / Logseq alternative with tasks, kanban board, static site publishing for VS Code

https://www.agentkanban.io - Github Copilot / Claude Code integrated Kanban board with context management

https://www.asmusictheory.com - Music Theory lessons, tools, including piano roll with midi in the web browser

holistio 10 hours ago|
awesome, your notes and music theory apps are very close to two of my hobby projects as well, the main difference is that my music app is guitar-centric

unfortunately, I did not have the time to pursue them. good luck to you!

bckr 2 hours ago||
I’m in the first weeks of designing nub: Not Unix, Basically. The motto is “general-purpose, provably correct software, for everyone”. The idea is to build, on top of seL4, a software stack that builds compile time capability guarantees and other high-assurance primitives into every piece of software by default.

“nub” is a good name because it can also be read as “noob”, which I am, when it comes to PL, type systems, and OS design. But I’m loving the deep connections that I am learning to draw across subjects like computability theory, functional programming, and brass-tacks software development.

For example, I find myself understanding the purpose of the borrow checker in Rust (“to make race conditions impossible” is my understanding: feel free to correct me / add color).

No website or GitHub repo yet. I’m brushing up on classical logic and learning Idris. Installed QEMU today.

tracerbulletx 10 hours ago||
I've been turning my Media Viewer into a complete local first media ecosystem for automated tagging, a media server, phone swiping, and a web version of the viewer so you can access it remotely. https://lowkeyviewer.com/

The thing Im most proud of though is just the viewer, its designed to just open all the images and videos in a folder, and then there is no UI except a right click context menu, the list is a grid or a masonry layout that uses 100% of the space for the images/video so you can just navigate them. It adds anything you open to a local sqlite db so you can tag things if you want optionally. Also control modes that make sense for either a mouse or a laptop trackpad.

GoToRO 1 hour ago||
Can it be used to watch series? I mean, does it track what was already played? I've read the description but it seems that this is a totally different beast.
phaser 8 hours ago||
I love the idea. Are you thinking about an Apple TV or iOS version for connecting to the media server from the living room?
tracerbulletx 6 hours ago||
Yeah, also VR devices. Right now im mostly focused on getting the media server depdendency management and install process more user friendly, it works, but can require a little trouble shooting to get everything working.
goodthink 2 hours ago||
[NO-AI] [https://newspeaklanguage.org]

1) Using Chrome's Isolated Web App technology and the afforded TCPSockets in the browser, I am resurrecting an ancient, windows desktop only, TCP protocol for connecting to * from web applications. All Newspeak, all the time.

2) Re-writing my friends football pool in Newspeak. The Squeak/Seaside version has served him well for more than a decade but I've grown tired of the setup. My VPS server got hacked recently affording the impetus to try another iteration. Storing all the data locally in IndexedDB, using my own Newspeak library for that API.

* While I have no problem being "left behind", I refuse to actively assist others in "getting ahead".

biggestriverman 10 hours ago||
When I was working at amazon (left May 8) working on agents was all the rage. Combined with initiatives that set goals for nearly all services to have a MCP built and available by the end of the year agents will be even more emphasized in the future.

However what happens when you actually build and launch your agent is customers try it, do some initial runs and then go ask your manager to automate their use case. That is why I have been building https://toolscaled.com/ The goal being work through your problem space using agentic chat (like Claude Desktop) and then at the end convert it to a workflow. I am pretty close to launching and have been testing. If you're interested send me an email! (if you do sign up just fyi its still in beta so YMMV.

Havoc 9 hours ago|
Interesting to hear that Amazon is doubling down on mcp
ndaugherty18 3 hours ago||
I've been building a site to help someone start a small business. Think figuring out how to get a loan, what neighborhood I should build in, what permits I need, etc. I feel there is a ton of content for people wanting to start a VC funded business but not enough for small business local to your area.

Its still in the building phase but what I have currently is at:

https://locallane.ai

mchaver 6 hours ago|
It's very niche, but I have created a course for learning Cangjie 倉頡, which is a Chinese input system based on the visual appearance of characters (not necessarily etymologically correct). The advantage of this system is you can type most characters via unique output (there are a few collisions where you need to pick) and you do not need to pick the character from a list. This is particular useful if you work with specialized texts in Chinese.

You can find the tool at https://www.cangjieworkbook.com/ and there is a free demo linked inside. It should work on desktop and mobile web browsers.

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