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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?
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robertn702 1 day ago|
I’m building a registry for packages that add WebMCP tools to sites that have not adopted WebMCP yet. Each package describes tools for a specific site as json and those tools are injected and executed using a browser extension.

https://webmcp.today/

alexpogosyan 2 days ago||
I'm bilding Jamful - ios audio looper app. I always loved using guitar looper pedals, so i wanted to have something similar on my phone. Currently it's on TestFlight https://testflight.apple.com/join/W7nD6v5H
vunderba 2 days ago|
Very cool. I've been using "Loopy" / "Loopy HD" for years as my primary looper on my iPad - makes it really easy to use with AudioBus to route synths over to it as well.
pkukkapalli 1 day ago||
I've been trying to get better at chess recently. But also wanted to explore some AI agent development hands on on the side. So, I built an AI chess coach to analyze my games, learning openings, and drill different endgames and such.

https://thenimzo.com

bhouston 2 days ago||
Been working on adding support for Gaussian Splats directly in ThreeJS specifically for WebGPU:

https://ben3d.ca/blog/gaussian-splatting-for-threejs

This PR was merged yesterday morning so the August ThreeJS release will have this new feature.

freshteapot 2 days ago||
I am working on an update to my mobile client for Learnalist, specifically bringing upgrade path to gate 200 free flashcard entries before payment. This now includes, a new add UX, embracing images on the server, not local anymore.

Aside from this:

- I asked codex to use my mobile app and web page for the flashcard UX, and make me one using qt + qml so I could run it on the remarkable 2, super happy with the initial results. This will be released as a reference for others, as the eco-system is too clunky today to offer it the non-technical users of remarkable devices.

- I learnt about my set-up box, and got assistance in making my first app, so I can post and image from my iphone to it via shortcuts. Currently, it only accepts one photo, but it is cool throwing it up on the tv. This also let me learn a little more about "ios Shortcuts" and cherri, a golang cli, that makes it a little easier to make shortcuts.

- Using nurb, to 3d print things, currently working thru printing a stand, so I can mount an iphone and record doing things on the remarkable. Its been really fun testing with little physical prototypes of small parts to then roll into the stand.

#Reference

- https://nurb.dev/

- https://x.com/freshteapot/status/2085692070337888698

- https://learnalist.net/features/mobile-learnalist-v1.html

hamza_q_ 2 days ago||
NVIDIA Parakeet running locally in the browser. Implemented in raw WebGPU compute shaders & SIMD WebAssembly audio frontend:

https://parakeet.narcotic.sh

The aim is for it to be a high-performance implementation. Can currently transcribe 1 hour of audio in 20 seconds on an M5 Mac.

manish_gill 2 days ago||
Published [0] a few days back - learning IO techniques in Linux. Got as far as epoll and will explore io_uring next!

[0] https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/08/learning-linux-io-part-...

opiniateddev 2 days ago||
A software SDLC harness that can run complex long horizon coding projects.

https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor-agents/tree/main/...

Open for collaboration, still in early dev.

rmzdotno 2 days ago|
Fast native language (java/rust) regular expression matchers:

* Java: https://github.com/la3lma/rmatch

* Rust: https://github.com/la3lma/rustmatch

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