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Posted by david927 2 days ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?
311 points | 1126 commentspage 48
conradfr 1 day ago|
Recently completed GearPix https://www.gearpix.app/

Which is an app and audio plugin to take and send pictures to a DAW tracks and have them stored in the project file.

Not vibecoded but I must say Claude was a big help to finish and debug my C++ code (which I didn't know before this).

nospi 1 day ago|
This is a great idea, nice one. Does it run as a VST plugin per channel or something?
conradfr 1 day ago||
Thanks. Yes it's a regular plugin that you insert as many times as you want.
iot_devs 1 day ago||
A writing app.

The overall idea is to work/write at an higher level of abstraction where you work with "ideas" (just small paragraphs).

You can move them around and basically restructure many/whole paragraphs by simply changing few words.

The final text is generated by an LLM.

LLM that has the whole context so you can ask it questions, but more importantly it can provide you feedback

iot_devs 1 day ago|
I put it online and accessible for people to try! Any feedback is welcome!

https://structo.redbeardlab.com/

dataviz1000 1 day ago||
I've been using coding agents to drive data visualization to help me understand complex concepts. Here is the latest on how reasoning models reason:

A probability grid of chain-of-thought, read through Boyd's OODA loop lens [0]

[0] https://adamsohn.com/reasoning-grid/

skyfantom 1 day ago||
One of the projects I’d like to highlight is Cheaspoly.

It’s an attempt to make chess a bit more, you know real:) Like countries buy armies, chess kings can buy figures. Also it’s easy to bring these new rules into offline games.

It’s quite early stage yet, but you can give it whirl at https://chesspoly.com/

darkurtpanke 1 day ago||
A prolog to c compiler

I got depressed from my grievance with my abusive mother and started reading the compiler dragon book along with artificial intelligence by steve.

https://github.com/x64x2/proc

molvqingtai 1 day ago||
I recently reconstructed my chat extension using AI, which has enabled functionalities that were previously difficult to implement. The downside is that I can no longer understand the project code.
aamargulies 1 day ago||
Automatic local events aggregator https://whatson.town/
nbbaier 1 day ago|
This is cool, please add Chicago!

Also, what data sources do you aggregate from?

aamargulies 1 day ago|||
Chicago is there! Look in the cities dropdown menu. getting sources is the trick… I’ve made some discoveries about how to ‘reverse-engineer’ a city.
nbbaier 1 day ago||
Oh nice! Silly my, I didn't scroll up!
GonzaloRizzo 1 day ago|||
I am also very interested in knowing how you source that information :)
mmmnnn 1 day ago||
iI am working on a synth engine (music synthesizer) in Python and C++ not a developer; music producer, classical pianist, and occasional NI Reaktor programmer.

It creates sound from math expressions which were inspired by the Desmos graphing calculator.

The sounds are mainly of the FM/DX7 taste.

i can't decide whether to show my progress on video by hiding or showing the expressions LLM(s) and myself "discovered".

It sometimes sounds extremely musical and sometimes very dirty and experimental, what's normal for frequency modulation.

Please help me decide: show all and open source or continue working on it and pitch it to some big names. ;-) I have the feeling it has strong potential for prototyping, as well as taking the role of a keyboard engine. It is completely viable to manipulation via AI because of its concept.

It runs nicely on an M4 Mac mini with 256 voices of polyphony and has a very high level of expressivity mainly via half-pedaling (sustain pedal).

Velocity, 8 macro knobs, no filters, no fx, ADSR envelope. A web interface and additionally CLI.

BubbleRings 1 day ago|
A music recommender website oriented towards albums.

Tell it your 5 favorite albums, get an immediate suggestions list. No sign up, free to use, integrated with Spotify to hear immediate samples (or the whole album).

https://SimilaritiesEngine.com

jermaustin1 1 day ago|
I liked this. I agreed with most of the suggestions (primarily because I knew them already), so I know the "algorithm" is working. There were a couple of groups I had never heard before, so double success!
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