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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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schipperai 1 day ago|
I’m working on “nah” [1] an agent hook guard that blocks catastrophic agent actions like filesystem destruction, secrets exfiltration, and git disasters.

All the agent hook guards I’ve seen can be easily removed by agents (and they often do so they can get going with the task). I made mine harder to remove, and I’m working on making it impossible.

I also made “nah” easily extensible. Just point your agent to the docs which ship with the CLI, and ask it to build a custom guard.

I’m working on strong Python and Typescript pseudo-interpreters so I can detect disasters in inline code with less false positives. Bash parser is already very strong.

This is a side-project that I want to be proud off. I spend a lot of time designing, not just coding.

[1] nahguard.ai

nbbaier 1 day ago|
Love the vibe of the website!
nshntarora 1 day ago||
A free and open source chrome extension to help people review code - https://guidedreview.dev

It upgrades your GitHub pull request review experience with a guided walkthrough of the PR optimized for reading.

lpsatwork 1 day ago||
Interesting to see the distribution of projects here. For people building something with the intention of eventually making it a business: what was the strongest evidence that the problem was worth pursuing before you started building? I'm especially interested in cases where the initial idea changed substantially after talking to users.
jolaflow 19 hours ago||
A modern issue tracker enabling replay for agentic workflows (via board time-travel) and focus on ergonomics (native to the terminal).

https://ljtn.github.io/epiq/

kidnoodle 1 day ago||
I’ve been playing around with exploiting LLMs having ‘read’ every book ever written to make a chatbot to help people choose library books. You talk to it a bit about things you’ve read, and it uses the llm’s latent knowledge of books to suggest ones you might like.

It’s pretty fun! It might even work on your local library (I got carried away and spent a while making it work on a few thousand round the world - you can see the coverage here: https://leafle.nanosheep.net/coverage).

https://leafle.nanosheep.net

Havoc 1 day ago||
Working on a web-reader tool of the kinda you might hook into an LLM as a MCP. Wanted to see how far I can get on my own rather than using something commercial.

Surprised how difficult it is to get anything usable. The web really has turned hostile - anything not on a residential IP gets blocked by like 50% of the sites no questions asked

I guess they're all responding to mass scraping

timeisapear 1 day ago||
https://ballcast.app

Hosting an XGBoost-model for MLB totals predictions. It runs every thirty minutes: incorporating weather at the hyperlocal level and joins with player attributes that are provably affected by that weather. It also provides advanced decision-making tools with a Kelly Criterion calculator built in. Model still needs some calibration for bet-sizing but is very close to production-ready.

Robust historical evaluations available at https://ballcast.app/validation

agustinxix 1 day ago||
I've been working on [https://ui.human-kit.com/](https://ui.human-kit.com/) a (still in beta) headless UI library for Svelte. I couldn't find any option that fit my use case, so I decided to build my own and share it to the world.

I've been working on this guy too https://github.com/Agustin-Delgado/repath. It's a modern circuit sim with a lot of bugs and things to be tested.

hboon 1 day ago||
I've been bootstrapping my indie SaaS and revitalised old macOS apps.

Along the way, I built AgentControl, so I can work better with coding agents, in ways that suits my style and preferences.

The past week, I've started AgentBrowser because I didn't want agent-controlled browsers to steal the focus. I use Safari for day to day browser stuff and Chrome just for dev. This combines them.

moinism 1 day ago|
Been building Chat Octopus (like ChatGPT but for media and content: https://chatoctopus.com) since Feb this year. Now it's available on web, ios, and android but I'm finding it hard to market it and find users.

Which is, i think, a common thing about solo devs.How do you guys deal with that?

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