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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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notyourav 10 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:)

digest 13 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 11 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

kderbyma 21 hours ago||
I am working on a toy game engine for webGL called PixoSpritz (https://pixospritz.com) and its been something I have been lazily working on for a number of years, but its a slow crawl. I havent worked as much over the past year and a half mainly due to trying to use LLMs to add some extra features and it ended up making me kind of sick to look at the code, then got depressed with LLMs in general and my coding has taken a hit, but its still something I will continue to work on and one day will make a proper game with it too. (Its 90% useable, but really really rough and messy and LLMs made it slightly more fragile...)

I am also working on a E-zine publishing platform called SVRN for interactive journals, blogs, magazines, books, and self publishing content including ARGs and interactive fiction. It is mainly so I can make my own digital comics and web stories, and episodic zines.

Reach out if you want to discuss!

avr5500 11 hours ago||
Working on https://libredesk.io A free Intercom, Zendesk alternative.
kilroy123 1 day ago||
I'm working to make one of the biggest free and privacy-friendly tool websites. A lot of them are things I want and need all the time.

https://allthedamn.tools

yboris 22 hours ago||
Releasing 3.3.0 version of my Video Hub App - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/ & https://videohubapp.com - 8+ years of development!

Working on 1.0.0 of Simple Image Browser - https://github.com/whyboris/Simple-Image-Browser

Releasing 2.0.0 of my Simplest File Renamer - https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer - Electron to Tauri 130mb to 3mb

Releasing 1.0.0 of My Off Remote - https://github.com/whyboris/my-off-remote - turn off your PC from phone / tablet over WiFi

kreig 6 hours ago||
Hermes agent assistant for homelab server maintenance backed by the (still cheap) DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731:

- Stack enhacements

- Updates/upgrades

- Security audit

- Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and alerting

- Backups

Basically a sysadmin for my own local cloud.

thecopy 14 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/

vinhnx 18 hours ago||
This month marks 1 year since I first started self-research and building my own coding agent VT Code [0]. I've been learning and experiment with a lot of things to first adapt myself and to learn about AI native/harness engineering. Thankfully, last month VT Code receives highest amount of contributions from the open-source community.

This month I will be focusing and enhance more long-running horizontal for VT Code such as plan mode, better strengthen tools policy structure and improve its harness as new and existing model grows exponentially. And If you are curious and want to fork it feel free, and welcome, let's build!

[0] https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode

tyrelb 21 hours ago|
LineLedger - open source (AGPL) accounting. I run a few small companies in BC and got sick of paying for 7 QuickBooks subscriptions, so I built my own.

First thing I've ever open sourced, feedback welcome: https://github.com/lineledger/lineledger

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