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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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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
NegativeLatency 1 day ago||
A iTunes inspired music app (uses an extension of DAAP) for classic Macintosh (Mac II and system 6 and newer currently only m68k, ppc coming soon) https://github.com/nburns/iRunes

And a extended DAAP compatible server than can convert other local music libraries (files/dlna/etc) for iRunes https://github.com/nburns/sharon-jones-and-the-daap-king

beeneeb 1 day ago||
I got laid off on Friday so I'm using it as an opportunity to dogfood briansjobsearch.com again. I'm working on a Chrome extension that will help with autofilling job applications. It has dramatically sped up the time it takes to apply to each job even on complicated ATS's.
kirilale 1 day ago||
Few things, trying to take full advantage of AI coding and my domains.

FutureOfGaming.com - In-depth weekly analysis revealing what's actually being developed in gaming, from new player experiences to technical innovation. Over 1,000 gaming patents covered since Nov last year. Every Tuesday for patents and Thursdays for filed.

ContentCreators.com - education, free toolkits, tools directory, job board for content creators. Recently also set up creator profiles to build out a creator directory and connect with brands.

WebsiteAudit.com - does what it says, run my websites through it to identify gaps - anything from performance, security, SEO and get recommended fixes. Looking to expand to also add brand AI visibility, hoping to launch soon. Still in testing

oryx1729 1 day ago||
I’m building cloud managed self improving agents at https://sanbox.cloud.

Each instance gets its own persistent file system, root SSH access and a web terminal. The goal is to let an agent build skills with experience rather than start from scratch on every task.

I started with Hermes as the first harness and now exploring Prime Agent. You can use it for a personal assistant, use it to build LLM wiki, connect it as part of an agent team, or run any coding agent on the cloud with dangerously skip permissions.

I’m also working towards a more general-purpose agent setup that can connect to channels such as email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Buzz.

brirtch 22 hours ago||
I'm working on Proxigem, an app (Android only right now, working on iOS). It shows you history, notable people, census stats (some countries), Wikipedia articles and other points of interest around you. Built to work offline so no connectivity needed when travelling.

https://www.proxigem.com/

arkmm 1 day ago||
Building a simple sandboxed way to run open weight models over a copy of all my personal data (email, docs, messaging, photos, etc). Think it'd be cool to have a self hosted AI "chief of staff" that has full read access to my personal info.
tisdadd 1 day ago||
I have been working on the marketing site for an ETL Product that I am ready to launch, and this thread made me realize that I should ask in another thread about recommended MoR/affiliate programs for current day.

This is meant to be something that will help business teams be better able to communicate what they want, while producing ready to deploy tech artifacts that do not rely on AI.

More importantly, I have been working on being a Dad - something we were told would be impossible naturally. Way more fun than being in front of the computer - our little one is nearly six months old now, and sleeping through the night until usually at least 8 AM, starting to roll over and enjoy tummy time more, and bringing smiles everywhere she goes.

socketcluster 23 hours ago||
I'm working on the backend your AI doesn't have to build https://saasufy.com/

For vibe coders.

With a focus on:

- Security

- Analytics

- Advanced data sharing scenarios

- Realtime updates

Claude can be given full access to your control panel and can impersonate any role to exhaustively test all your data models and views. So even a fool can exhaustively prove the security of their application for all data in their system.

josmek 20 hours ago|
I’ve been working on a Postgres extension for running local LLM inference “inside” Postgres (inference runs in a background worker, while Postgres stores the jobs, inputs, outputs, and receipts)

https://github.com/joshmeek/otlet

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