Posted by david927 1 day ago
Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
An agentic system which scans a whole countries political decisions. Wrote a blogpost about it here: https://lorentz.app/blog-item.html?id=scanning-sweden
Reusable on any country's political system as long as they have legal mandates to keep political documents public (most of EU). Still a long way to go, but pretty in a pretty decent shape already. Wrote it for the Swedish election, but didn't get far enough for it to have an impact.
Will continue with for Finnish elections 2027 (on new domain).
My web app helps people registering an imported vehicle in the UK complete the DVLA’s V55/5 registration form more efficiently.
- Flexible rp2040-based instrument tuner
- Stratocaster-style PCB art pickguards
- NeXTBus experimentation board (not that I'll ever use it, but I'll be darned if I don't understand the nuances between NeXT and Apple's NuBUS implementations better now)
This extends to firmware and emulation projects like Doom and the Quake trilogy running in Jira Cloud (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/3372062249/doom-for-j...) and a fork of 86box dedicated to NeXTstep systems (i want an emulated object.station, darnit)
Description on the tin.
I found it hard to get fares and timetables for the Elizabeth Line in London between X and Y quickly hence I built this as an experiment using AI tooling.
(https://github.com/Tori-Tech/Mandating-Honeypots-Project)
In that project, I also proposed a tool with heavily redundant password protection that parents could use to keep kids from tampering with the service so the government can stop saying that this is for the kids. I'm planning on doing a mobile device version and/or an ID database focused version, but that's still in the planning phase.
I also want to do a Windows version when they release their 'GetUserAgeRangeAsync' API, but idk if I'll be able to. Windows is always a pain to work with.
It'd be nice if someone had advice or ideas to share, too.
Trading Results as a service.
Our philosophy is Capital protection first, so we focus on protecting capital and managing risk while trading, and avoiding large losses enables compounding and high returns in the long run.
Infused with my co-founder's three decades of experience in trading & finance.
We don't want all your money. We want to be part of your diversified portfolio, which should also consist of other things like index funds, bonds, etc.
Initial allocations will open within the near-term future. For the founding investors (as we call the first clients), we also offer a portfolio review to align your portfolio with your long-term goals, a direct line to founders, and other things.
We created it as an alternative to the price gouging that happened over the last year at various timesheet SaaS companies. The idea is that good software should not cost 10x as much just because 10x as many people use it. In our opinion, software should also be functionally complete. There should be no arbitrary tiers that only exist to force people into more expensive plans.
The stack is Elixir with Phoenix LiveView, deployed on a Talos Kubernetes cluster. This is different from what we normally build on, and honestly quite fun.
Lately we have been thinking hard about the temporal nature of timesheet software. Many things get quite complicated once you factor in historical versions: the need to retire, lock, change, reopen records or rates, and so on. We have been working hard to polish Abejora to make everything accessible, user friendly, and intuitive.
Working with remote large data sets as if they where local.
I made the project public on May, and now as September has arrived, you can work with post production videos anywhere in the world. You can run the daemon on your own NAS and access the data on-demand from your working machines.
The same applies to data acquisition in digital forensics flows.
Constantly and carefully iterating through refinement and features. It's built on Rust + Tauri with a React frontend, in case anyone is curious.
I've created various open-source and commercial tools in the multimedia space over the last 10+ years and wanted to put it all together into something more premium with an IDE-like experience.
Most recently I added a /playground area to experiment with the inspection tools via a WASM build, which I thought was a neat way for users to try the app before downloading the full version.
Happy to answer any questions!
Now working on releasing on steam, android, ios. Also made an ssh version you can access via your terminal [2]. Hoping could get as many downloads in native platforms.