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Posted by david927 1 day ago

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

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?
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xbryanx 23 hours ago|
If you’re in the Minneapolis / Saint Paul metro area and care about trees, you might like my recent project: https://msptrees.com

On a walk and wonder what species is shading you? Curious if the city thinks your boulevard tree is as sickly as you think it is? Find your spot on MSP Trees.

It's been fun working with some public city data and thinking about how to normalize information across different municipalities. Community doesn't end at city boundaries, but municipal GIS data systems sure do. I'm hoping to build tools like this for some more areas if I can track the data down.

coldstartops 12 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

jov3 15 hours ago||
Hello-- I've been building Astrotechne, a modern technical astrology workspace.

I wanted to experiment with building my own ephemeris and calculation stack, and refine my agentic development workflow... and honestly make astrology software that doesn’t look like it was made in 2004.

I started with asteroid calculation software, because much of it is Windows-only, and really inaccessible. (For the best one you literally need to email a guy to get it)

A friend also asked me for a replacement for the old PlanetWatcher.com-- a site where you could use a time scrubber and animate through a chart (it's no longer around)

Inevitably, the project has expanded into so much more... It's been a great way to experiment with MCP, different agentic coding processes, and to test some of the custom harnesses and context management tools I've been hacking on.

Check it out!

https://www.astrotechne.com

Jove

gogo61 12 hours ago||
Building a cat themed word puzzle game with two friends.

It will have all the top word games in one place with more coming over time.

I always wanted to build games, and AI finally made it possible for us to move fast across UI, level design, coding, and even video production.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superfun.w... iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kitten-word/id6785978180

alecsm 1 day ago||
I'm working on a browser IDLE game made with Go. I've never touched Go before. The game core it's 80% done and it was pretty easy to code but I have no idea what I'm doing in with the transport/http layer.

At this rate I'll have it finished by the end of the next decade.

furst-blumier 1 day ago|
I love idle games. What's it about?
alecsm 1 day ago||
It's a MMORPG. Combat, bosses, gathering and crafting professions, etc.

From the moment it launches, there should be enough content for around a year.

RaiausderDose 1 day ago||
Dominus Automa is an idle mmorpg too - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3795810/Dominus_Automa/

Same style?

alecsm 1 day ago||
Not at all. It's a different concept.

More like https://store.steampowered.com/app/1267910/Melvor_Idle/

furst-blumier 1 day ago||
That's awesome! I 100%ed melvor idle and a bunch of the other big ones like antimatter dimensions, cookie clicker etc. Is there some way to get informed when you release it?
alecsm 23 hours ago||
I thought no one here would be interested in it but I could post it to /show once it's ready.
avr5500 8 hours ago||
Working on https://libredesk.io A free Intercom, Zendesk alternative.
meerita 1 day ago||
I am building a new modern Terminal browser. A text based browser for the terminal. Full privacy, features. Ultra fast. For those who love to work in terminal but somehow are dissapointed with Lynx.

* Native and small. * Private by default. * Terminal-safe. * Agent-ready. A built-in MCP server exposes read-only tools (browser_open, browser_read, browser_list_links). * Configurable.

[0] [code] https://github.com/meerita/puma-browser

I am still far away of 1.0, but I've been using it every day since. It's open source, you can compile it and use it as you want.

Every week I try to finish more features.

ranger_danger 1 day ago|
without javascript, doesn't this break a lot of websites, especially ones that lazy-load their content?
meerita 1 day ago||
Full JavaScript websites will not work, but the rest of the web will. I'm trying to build a more solid module to handle URL redirects. I managed to get it working with DuckDuckGo.

Right now, forms don't work yet (still in development), but you can use the `/search` command, and it will perform a search on DuckDuckGo.

Addendum: HN breaks a lot, specially since I didn't support nested comments and forms, but it's readeable and you can browse all links, no problem.

Give me all the feedback, I really appreciate it.

ppnpm 14 hours ago||
I am building Segue: an infinite canvas and keyboard-first mind maps application for windows desktops. I am trying to keep it minimal and only necessary features like text node, sticky note, ink tool and images. Later I shall add more productive feature and less unnecessary tools and features.

It has completely local environment and has no servers. Your files saved as SQLite database files per board. This means you have nothing to set up. No account, no sign-in, no sync settings. Just open it and work. You can use git or Onedrive to sync your SQLite files.

The code is open-source on GitHub with MIT license. I am using claude to build it in C#, Skiasharp for canvas and WPF UI.

If you are interested to take a look, please check it here : https://github.com/ppnpm/segue

Thanks, Ankit

vintagevibe 1 day ago||
https://caffenol.app

It's a darkroom toy/simulator for photogs running in the browser on WebGPU. It's half film sim, half creative chaos and each run is different. Still pretty early.

yboris 19 hours ago|
Pretty! Really enjoyed it!
kannanpoem1984 1 day ago|
I have been working on couple of open source projects related to package intelligence and AI tooling.

https://secchi.dev Secchi is Open Source Package Intelligence | python based

https://tuffcli.dev tuff is Capability lifecycle manager for coding agents | rust based

Both would be very helpful to be part of developer tooling. I built package intelligence when I need to monitor the downloads of my other personal project packages from package manager.

I have learned a lot over in terms of rust language, design patterns in rust, also how the ecosystem of AI capabilities within projects use cases and needs

That sounds interesting, give star to repo :D

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