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Posted by david927 20 hours ago

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

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?
276 points | 948 commentspage 14
coldstartops 5 hours ago|
KeibiDrop: A Peer to Peer Network latency hiding filesystem:

You can work on shared files instantly without uploading or downloading them.

1 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wt0NMx2_I8 Github repo: https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop

Since last month hardened bidirectional edits such that people can work on video assets with Premier Pro, DaVinci, and such.

Got a pre-alpha release, where we managed to split congestion control over QUIC and bulk data transfers over TCP, and the lockless conflict resolution :D

mskalski 6 hours ago||
Yesterday I reached a stopping point in a project I had been working on over several weekends. I wanted to connect my illumos server directly to my Japanese ISP through DS-Lite, and ended up writing and publishing two Rust crates along the way.

The tunnel itself worked, but stock illumos could not manage the DHCPv6 prefix delegation required by my connection. I also spent quite a bit of time tracing a four byte ABI mismatch between a 64 bit Rust process and a 32 bit illumos service.

There was no happy ending, but I learned more about the illumos network stack and distilled the experience into a blog post: https://skalski.dev/connecting-my-illumos-box-to-a-japanese-...

richstokes 13 hours ago||
Had a moment of nostalgia and started building an IRC client for macOS. It’s totally free/open source. And has been fun to customize / add the features I like to see while avoiding the ones I don’t.

https://github.com/richstokes/Netsplit

mlitwiniuk 5 hours ago||
Still making fellow founders' lives easier when it comes to SOC2/ISO27001. AuditBadger (https://auditbadger.com) is a compliance management platform where AI drafts policies, controls, risks, business continuity plans, and so on. Humans are always in the loop; everything needs to be signed off (I don't believe in either of "we do compliance for you" or "AI can do compliance for you" approaches). Currently working on revamping our asset management features to fully and perfectly support NIS2.
sailorganymede 4 hours ago||
A PR quality gate which grills me to make sure I understand the code changes I am making before I merge. I have been working on an AI app which deals with vulnerable users lest I ruin the experience for my customers so I am a little bit hesitant to "go fast" but I find AI really helpful in my process.

I actually have been working on it for a little while but this is the first week where it's been quite helpful.

thecopy 5 hours ago||
Im working on an extensible and flexible agentic connectivity platform (MCP, OpenAPI/Swagger, FaaS) with niceties like built-in CodeMode, compression, SIEM integration, access token forwarding, SCIM 2.0, on-demand agentic sandboxes (e.g. LangChains "Deep Agents").

For private use not that useful tbh (although i found the OpenAPI -> MCP mapper useful), but found sales success with organizations with more complex agentic setups.

Gatana: https://www.gatana.ai/

zitterbewegung 16 hours ago||
I’m attending defcon 34 and I vibe coded an image sharing app running on the badge https://github.com/zitterbewegung/dc34-baogram . When you share a picture you have taken you also digitally sign each picture you share so people know who took the picture . You can also upload arbitrary images using your computer.
D13Fd 18 hours ago||
I have a keyboard I bought in 2020 called the Makerdiary M60 keyboard. It runs Python, and over the years I've coded in various functions. But it was somewhat buggy, and the upstream firmware was never upgraded.

I love the hardware because it's the only keyboard I've been able to find that keeps a live Bluetooth connection and lets you toggle back and forth between USB and Bluetooth instantly using only a keyboard shortcut. That means you use two computers, and switch back and forth as fast as you can type. Years ago I also added a feature that changes the backlight color based on the active connection, so you can instantly tell which computer your typing will go to. I haven't been able to find any other keyboard that's quite as nice.

Lately I've spent weeks using an LLM to update the extremely old keyboard firmware to the latest firmware of its components (e.g., Circuitpython, the BLE firmware, the boot loader) and implementing all of my dream keyboard features that I never had the gumption to spend hours implementing pre-LLM. I finally resolved years-old bugs, and I added things like layer-based backlighting (so that the individual keys with relevant functions are lit), a better battery gauge, better sleep/suspend timing, backlight calibration, better debounce, and so on.

I've also upgraded the hardware and added batteries to each of the keyboards (I have three of these, one at home, one in the office, and one for travel).

It has been a very satisfying project, finally scratching a years-old itch.

RealityVoid 17 hours ago||
Simultaneous connection sounds super cool. I use it in the same way and reconnecting is annoying. I thought of doing something similar with synergy/mouse without borders but not through the internet, through the keyboard/mouse itself, auto toggling on mouse to the edge of screen. Cool project.
needz 18 hours ago|
I lead development on Pindigo (https://pindigo.app), a social score-tracking and ranking app for pinball players.

Most of my time lately has gone into Flippd, its successor, which we recently soft-launched. We’ve also released a tech demo that uses custom computer-vision models to identify a pinball machine from a photo and extract the player’s score.

You can try it here: https://flippd.gg/scan

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