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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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emp_ 1 day ago|
Just promoting a small utility for others that may need it.

For us MacOS users that use Spaces and want to CMD+Tab only inside that Space, the only alternative was AltTab (that I could find) but it has so many more features and goals, plus I had performance issues with it remotely over HPSS which I use heavily so I've generated the simplest utility that only shrinks the CMD+Tab list per Space and nothing else.

https://github.com/emp/SpaceTab

dasyud 1 day ago|
This is perfect! Thank you!
qudat 1 day ago||
I’m iterating on a constellation of git collab services that I’m calling “the disappearing code forge.” All self hostable with a focus on minimalism and Unix philosophy.

I just revamped the collaboration portion which is a patchbin service: https://pr.pico.sh

As part of that I work im also iterating on the ci/cd solution we are calling pici: https://ci.pico.sh

AMA

thedreammachine 1 day ago||
Two open-source initiatives:

1. https://preseason.ai Basically a benchmarking platform that measures how the top LLMs recommend devtools when prompted to build different types of web apps.

2. https://widen.dev A native Mac desktop Postgres GUI with text-to-SQL. You can even use the LLM that already comes installed in your MacOS.

eg312 1 day ago||
An interactive compound-interest explainer, based on The Compound Effect book https://github.com/alexadam/compound-effect

Added more widgets to Printable Mockups https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups & https://www.printablemockups.com/

mlhpdx 1 day ago||
I’m working on a sailing watch system for clubs and teams without the resources for existing systems (thousands of dollars per boat).

I’m starting with the Waveshare ESP-32 watch. It has a great price tag and features, and an impossibly small battery for regattas that run for hours over two days. Designing it for super low power like this, no internet (regattas are often rural), and very high expectations (competitive sailors) is challenging and fun.

Ultimately custom hardware (probably Nordic based) will be in the cards, but for now I’m engineering a solution from what I have.

ferCats99 1 day ago||
I got laid off on the recent job cut wave industry wide, so I just started working on cars, it's been really fun to know deeper how something with higher physical consequences work, today I was looking on another old beat up car from marketplace, might work on my father's F150 next week, and got back to the industry this monday with another Tech Consultant job, so, been having a nice time
mmsc 1 day ago||
I recently got a Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad and have been using them on two different Macbooks (work and non-work).

I couldn't find a good way switch them between different Macs, so I made https://github.com/MegaManSec/magic-switch. It's a small application which allows you to basically share the peripherals between Macs, and send them back-and-forth either manually or automatically.

Schiendelman 1 day ago|
Would you consider publishing to the mac app store?
mmsc 1 day ago||
I'm working on it: https://github.com/MegaManSec/magic-switch/issues/67
robstinson 1 day ago||
I love shared daily puzzle games. Wordle, crosswords, that kind of thing.

Swudoku is my take on a daily sudoku puzzle. All the numbers are on the board, you just need to rearrange them to complete the game.

Been running it for over a year now with daily plays from friends and family who enjoy it. Recently took a stab at an iPhone app for it as well.

https://swudoku.com/

matnosner 1 day ago|
neely (https://neely.app) - club & team management for amateur sports clubs in the DACH region, starting with youth handball. I coach youth handball myself. The incumbent here is SpielerPlus - practically every handball team in Germany uses it, and I've yet to meet a coach who's happy with it. That gap is the whole opportunity.

Most inventions are just better versions of things that already exist - I'm building the Google Workspace for clubs.

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