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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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dchasson 2 days ago|
My dotfiles.

Specifically, I'm working to stop working on them.

nbbaier 2 days ago|
Godspeed
kimjune01 2 days ago||
working on building a bench for human ICs for hiring

https://june.kim/human-signal

Mathnerd314 2 days ago||
A philosophical task manager, based on notable philosophers such as Baudrillard, Foucault, etc. It's been a fun game of reading these works, trying to distill their essence, and putting them through the LLMs to see what comes out. Currently it's not one task manager but rather many prototypes, and I'm trying to reconcile various design issues. In the same way that Marx's "philosophy" is essentially a "praxis" of political and economic power, which does not presuppose a "truth" but rather creates one, my task manager is a pragmatic tool for establishing the meaning of life.
RAGcontent 2 days ago||
wellbody.me - a simplified approach to body health. we condense a progression system into 3 daily actions to keep you focused on your goals.
c_hastings 2 days ago|
I assume you want feedback - onboarding for this was very long (the quiz) and it wasn't clear why I was answering these questions.

Yes, to build a radar graph. But why not be a beginner, working professional, and a parent? How do I pick only one thing that I do after 9 pm?

Your onboarding is complicated when your app's premise is just do simple things, but halfway through onboarding, I've lost confidence in the path you are charting.

eclipxe 2 days ago||
Software Factory. MIT licensed. runfusion.ai
xmstan 1 day ago||
I am working on Bonsai - an open-source conversational framework for brand-safe assistants and agents. It works with text and voice based channels. For example we recently built an email agent that qualifies leads and sends pdf offers back. 2 years ago (before open-sourcing) we built an AI podcaster that conducted interviews in a physical space. GH: https://github.com/utter-one/bonsai
ita 1 day ago||
A laser cut Jigsaw puzzle design tool and generator, focused on making laser cut safe jigsaw puzzles with lots of whimsies and interesting connectors, etc. This way people can make their own custom jigsaw puzzles with the pieces they want.

https://jiglu.dev/

It also has an online game so people can give me faster feedback of what makes puzzle pieces fun or not

kmstout 2 days ago||
Giving another round of attention to a CLI tool for handling RSS feeds. Over the years I've evolved several automated ingest flows, most of which are fed via RSS. For a long time, I used a setup based on rss2email, but it was baroque. Meanwhile, tools of a more standard design, like elfeed and newsboat, do not cater to my use cases. So, I wrote something that handles only feed management, fetching new items (i.e., <item> or <entry> elements), tagging, and searching the database. Other issues, such as download and storage of content, tagging policy, storage, and indexing are left entirely up to the scripts for which this is a building block.
jjordan 2 days ago||
I'm just about done with https://RSSVault.org, a curated RSS feed directory.

Password is vaultearly644988 if you want to check it out.

The companion app, a widget-first RSS headline viewer called Just The Headlines is just about done too. Site is online if you want to see screenshots: https://justtheheadlines.app

I'm in the (required, sigh) closed test phase of Google Play Store approval. Drop me a line on X (https://x.com/JJordan) if you would like to join the test for that.

Feedback is more than welcome.

analog8374 2 days ago|
a lightweight portable foldable seiza bench. yes I know there are such but none are good. mine is good
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