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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?
300 points | 1075 commentspage 24
mlitwiniuk 14 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.
shaka-bear-tree 1 day ago||
I wanted to know if I could fully describe an online survey using a simple, readable, parseable language.

There are numerous UI form builders. And Xlsform for ODK and KoboToolbox but nothing I could find that is easy for humans and machines to grok. So I wrote a DSL in Ruby to see if it could be done. The language is mostly described at https://srp.solutions and some example usage and implementation at https://srpsurveys.com/

robowo 16 hours ago|
This is a great idea. Is the code open source?
lylo 16 hours ago||
I’m working on my indie blogging platform, Pagecord (https://pagecord.com). It started as a fun side project but is gaining decent traction right now - I’m convinced there’s a blogging renaissance about to happen! :)

I’ve been focused on decentralising it, offering ways for bloggers to write locally (markdown, Obsidian) while hosting remotely on the platform. I think it’s a great way of working. Most people still just use the editor though!

I’ve been focused on marketing and distribution, which is mainly about content. Hard in such a crowded space but it seems to be working.

It’s been such an interesting journey technically too, from using coding agents to dealing with the crazy deluge of bot traffic.

I run it all myself which isn’t so daunting in the AI age.

notyourav 9 hours ago||
I made my first game on a paper and first video game on a C64. After a long diversion working in auto industry (I’m still working) I’m preparing to launch my first game here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/4265740/

Very exciting:)

kageneko 19 hours ago||
I grew up coding MUDs (in college) and every year I try to recreate that glory, so I start a fresh MUD code base from scratch.

This year, I am creating a nodejs MUD, well closer to a MUSH actually.

* Everything is an Entity with Attributes * A player is an Entity with its client property set * There's a handful of built-in commands, but the important ones are @eval and @set-attribute * The soft-code language is ... JavaScript. * It uses the vm module from nodejs[0] to execute stuff. * It has separate clients (so far) for Discord, Slack, and local console. It's easy to add more and will be easier after I do this one refactor.

Each time an soft-code command or function or what have you executes, it creates a new context to isolate the soft-code from the rest of the application and uses Proxy objects to isolate the database Entity from the soft-code Entity. As an example, this is the look command (placed on the global registry object):

      if (!me.location) {
        me.send("You are nowhere.");
      } else {
        me.send("**" + me.location.name + "**");
        const contents = me.location.contents;
        if (!contents?.length) {
          me.send("You see nothing here.");
        } else {
          me.emit("You see:\\n" + contents.map(thing => "* " + thing.name).join("\\n"));
        }
      }

The Proxy manages access to Entities and Attributes (for example, Attributes can only normally be accessed by their owners).

The MUSH outputs markdown for everything, so each client can format it however it likes.

I know the security is not nearly close to perfect, but it's mostly a proof of concept that I will make public one day. I did do a few things, like disable eval and Function and Promise but there's probably plenty of ways to get around it.

imtringued 13 hours ago|
Have you thought about letting an LLM generate the item and object scripts from a description? The LLM probably shouldn't be involved in regular game play though.
kageneko 4 hours ago||
Yeah, but that's a different project than this one :D

This is just about building the framework for now and then putting it loose into the world. I have a big refactor in mind to further decouple the client/server from the game engine, but it'll take some work.

I did make a sample database (a JSON file that was imported into the database) for an earlier iteration that was almost entirely LLM generated. I provided it with description of the general area and what sorts of things could be found there, along with the climate and such. It did a really good job with descriptions and added little touches but it had trouble keeping the map in mind and so things that were located in the north could also be reached by going east. That could also be prompting on my part or just not giving it a strong enough framework.

avr5500 10 hours ago||
Working on https://libredesk.io A free Intercom, Zendesk alternative.
ngsevers 22 hours ago||
For the last 6 months I've been working on a local-first replacement for accounting and business management software. I just finished building a modular system that I'm pretty proud of, which lets users develop their own modules and import them into a running instance without having to fork the repo.

https://github.com/celerp/celerp

Wowfunhappy 1 day ago||
I'm backporting the modern 2026 WebKit framework to work with Safari 7 on OS X Mavericks, from 2013.

With the updated frameworks in place, this ancient browser becomes able to access the modern web again! Even webapps like Figma work!

https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/WebKit

(As I make clear in the Readme, Claude wrote this code, a project like this would never be feasible otherwise. My main job has been to decide on larger infrastructure questions and find bugs and make them reproducible.)

digest 12 hours ago||
I’m working on Digest: https://usedigest.com

It lets you combine the things you already follow like RSS, Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube, X, newsletters, weather, stocks, etc. into one personal email delivered on your schedule.

Recently I’ve been working on AI summaries for incoming newsletters. The interesting product problem is that once you combine this many sources into an email, there is a challenge to keeping the results finite and useful.

jjude 10 hours ago|
working on something similar in the senese to combine rss and others to create radars for executives. born out of personal problem to keep track of so many things that are going on.

check it out here: https://www.sophai.app/radars

praveer13 1 day ago|
Posted on the other thread too related to this

I’ve been making interactive learning resources for myself - with wasm and browser simulation based labs (browser only interactive courses served from GitHub pages) to teach me topics from beginner to advanced

LLMs and systems intersection - https://kernelspace.naigap.com

Distributed systems - https://byzantine.play.naigap.com

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