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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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faangguyindia 23 hours ago|
MacroCodex app, which results in guaranteed weight loss or weight gain outcomes within 2-5 weeks. It's a completely ad-free, subscription-free product.

Don't believe? Read the reviews.

All you need to do is provide it your calorie intake and weight reading each day.

How does it work? Explained here: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/

We already have 16,000+ users.

gppk 23 hours ago|
How do you get your users? This seems like a great little "useful tool" type app, but i always wonder how they get tractions..
samsk 1 day ago||
I've finalized and have in beta testing an AI-based natural language search of properties from an MLS feed. On top of that, I'm continually tuning an AI agent that is able to do property research, comparisons, neighborhood and history analysis, etc.

[1]: https://mlsync.ai

gottebp 1 day ago||
I resurrected an ancient UIUC x86 ASM game, built with some friends in the summer of 2002 for ECE291. Claude Code drove most of the work.

The first attempt was a full on x86asm->webasm transpiler which ran into some difficult stack issues.

The second attempt was successful via conversion from x86asm->c->emscripten->wasm [0]. It plays pretty well on mobile and just about any browser now.

Fair warning it is pretty difficult to win, unless you can figure out where the enemy weaknesses are [1].

[0] [code] https://github.com/gottebp/alan_parsons_project

[1] [play] https://particlefield.com/projects/alan-parsons/game.html

arionhardison 1 day ago||
I have been working on automating many of the programs that federal prisons run to help newly released inmates with re-entry.

Example: https://atlanta-fci.bop.doj.dev/program/65545-inmate-account...

epaga 1 day ago||
Nearing the release of my first game ever - Silent Shark, a tactical, map-based WW2 submarine sim releasing this Wednesday on PC, Mac, and Linux! I'm at about 17,000 wishlists on Steam and I'm having such a blast. Very impressed with Steam so far.

I designed Silent Shark to be the sweet spot of minimalism meeting realism of dials and procedures (like a simulated Torpedo Data Computer) that scratches my simmer geek itch without being impossible to write the game myself.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4705650/Silent_Shark/

Browser demo: https://silentshark.app/alpha

marking-time 1 day ago||
I am working on a CLI tool that will build a static web page for a small brick and mortar store. The software is FOSS and could be useful for the small store that has a lot of foot traffic, but is under served by many of the big tech offerings. The idea is that foot traffic can be increased by using a QR code placed on a banner outside the store directing them to the website that can display sales and types of items that the store offers. Pleases check out the build log for details of my progress.

https://codeberg.org/Marking-Time/MicroStore

pupdogg 1 day ago||
Building FabShack, a white-label instant quoting engine that gives sheet metal fabricators SendCutSend/OshCut-level capabilities without needing an in-house software development team.

https://www.fabshack.io

Kauhentus 1 day ago||
I've been putting my applied math degree to work!

https://asunder.co/montegrid - Mainly working on a Monte Carlo Excel plugin that can run on Mac. Standard scientific computing shenanigans ... one benefit of everything being Javascript is that one can use Rust -> WASM everywhere :)

Also maintaining weaving software (https://asunder.co/bower) which has so many fun puzzles in discrete math and combinatorial optimization to think about.

Cool to see everyone else's projects!

mshekow 1 day ago||
A CLI and UI tool called "renovate-log-parser" to diagnose issues with Renovate Bot, using its debug log. It's supposed to accelerate this analysis, with several CLI commands (one meant for coding agents to save tokens when they read the log). If you want to try it, it's just one "npx renovate-log-parser" command away.

https://github.com/MShekow/renovate-log-parser

satyamkapoor 1 day ago|
Nice idea
davidsojevic 1 day ago|
Working on a web-based image editor with plenty of customisation and support for most Photoshop features.

Built overwhelmingly in vanilla JS with a couple of WASM modules for it.

It’s generally very performant across the app so far, but there’s still a handful of features that are functional but subpar in terms of performance that I need to address.

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