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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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newbie578 2 days ago|
I am working on a discussion board for HN’s Who is hiring.

Too many times I have been burned by applying to scam listings or people who are just to self-promote and use people who want a job as a marketing channel (looking at you BetterStack, fu in particular).

I want people to be able to discuss and flag companies which are lying or just a waste of time, yet HN refuses to do anything about it and doesn’t allow threads as discussions and removes comments.

Hit me up if you want on the beta testers lists, already got a couple of people.

rocket.dev22@gmail.com

barapa 1 day ago||
https://wordknots.barapa.dev/
barapa 1 day ago|
Word game I play with my family and wife. Very addictive.
saltysalt 1 day ago||
A human-curated old school web search engine: https://greppr.org/
mcjiggerlog 2 days ago||
Waystops (https://www.waystops.com), a map-based travel app for working out what destinations exist and which are actually worth visiting.

Google Maps is great for route planning and looking up things you already know about, but it's pretty useless for discovery. Sometimes you just want to know what places are actually worth going to as a tourist or backpacker.

It's the kind of information you'd traditionally get from guide books, but in a format that IMO makes a lot more sense - a map. Right now the scores and content are seeded by an AI, but the idea would be for these to eventually be user-derived.

It's still pretty early and I have a WIP native app which makes it a lot nicer to interact with on mobile, but it would be awesome to get people trying it out already. It's free to use, with nothing paywalled or anything like that. I'd only think about some kind of monetization if it actually gets some traction. Would love any feedback!

burrrno 1 day ago||
I just released HNewsflash [1], an iOS Hacker News reader, which accumulates the top upvoted HN stories over a given timeframe and lets you scroll through its discussions. I developed it for occasional HN users who do not open the frontpage on a daily basis and don't want to miss out on latest posts and news.

The app is build in native SwiftUI. Since the official HN API returns only one item per request, a single thread would mean hundreds of round trips, so there's a small Go + Postgres service in front that archives the top stories, flattens comment trees into one response and caches them.

Big shoutout to https://hckrnews.com, which gave me the initial idea. I wanted to create something similar for mobile that can also handle comments and discussions.

Other features include

* bookmarks

* code block and markdown rendering

* no ads, no tracking

[1] https://apps.apple.com/app/id6450697950

pryelluw 2 days ago||
My comedy newsletter featuring short-ish essays about random nonsense: https://yelluwcomedy.substack.com/
el_mostafa 1 day ago||
i'm working with a friend of mine on https://resumewizard.cv where you can build a resume on 5 to 10 minutes from start to pdf download. you can create an account or just create your resume without a signup and your data will live on your localStorage
l5870uoo9y 2 days ago||
Found existing React web frameworks either bloated, buggy or too complex, so I built: https://www.rshono.com/
fenio 2 days ago||
I'm working on my own NAS system based on NixOS and bcachefs. https://github.com/nasty-project/nasty
t4nner 2 days ago|
emira, a tiling-scrolling WM for macOS: https://github.com/lightningboltemoji/emira

I know there are lots of options in this space, but I wanted to experiment with a new approach: a compositor overlay. During transitions (like scrolling on focus, moving a window, etc.) an overlay pops up and uses _screenshots_ of windows for animating while the real windows move below. Once in place, the cover dissolves out. It's not perfect, but this makes it _feel_ much closer to native.

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