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Posted by david927 1 day ago

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

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?
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coldstartops 15 hours ago|
https://keibidrop.com

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.

antilimit 1 day ago||
working on a storytelling app for kids called Tella Stories that goes deeper than just some minimal personalization.. know there's lots of stuff that claims to make them the hero, yadda yadda but then they just give you a shitty digital templated story or try to sell you a printed version. this is focused on a high level digital experience and something parents can actually trust, and that kids actually enjoy.

so yeah.. it builds the stories out of their actual life. their family and friends are in the cast, their dog, the thing they're nervous about this week. the kid doesn't just appear in the story, the story is about their world and imagination and grows with them.

ultimate goal is to keep iterating and get to a level of quality of Bluey, etc but have it actually be the kids world with agency/choices vs. one they have to passively sit back and watch, and that they're not in.

would love any feedback. i know there's been others like Ello shared on here and those threads were really interesting to know HN's opinion on. this does not take an educational and instructional approach. Tella is meant to help develop who they are through stories and be a better screen alternative time to the rest of the algo/curated garbage out there. anyway you guys are a critical and technical bunch and i respect/appreciate that.. especially since this of course leverages multiple AI services to create the stories ~

https://tella.kids/

eager_noob 1 day ago||
Iterating through and evaluating possible approaches for shrinking the binary size of a tree-sitter based Vi/Vim compatible tags generator I am developing without affecting the developer experience for adding support for newer languages[1]. A couple of approaches have already been tried and failed to live up to the expectations on developer experience [2][3]. Next in line is to look into bundling only the tree-walking code for all supported languages with tree-tags and allow the user to configure the grammars to download separately from the main binary, possibly using the `wasm` feature which allows native library to run wasm compiled grammars.

[1] https://github.com/jha-naman/treetags

[2] https://github.com/jha-naman/treetags/pull/62

Tried to use a generator for automating the bulk of the scanner for a language from `grammar.json` file of a tree-sitter grammar. A runtime engine uses the scanner for a forward only walk on the scanned code and calls the hooks to generate tags.

[3] https://github.com/jha-naman/treetags/pull/56

A complicated mess of a generator that takes a few declarative inputs and tries to generate code for spitting out tags for a given language.

tha_infra_guy 22 hours ago||
Working on a couple of projects:

Ai-rganize: Allows AI to identify, classify, and organize local files, making the core workflow naturally reviewable as scan, propose organization, approve, rename or move: https://github.com/adefemi171/ai-rganize

Runeward: Been using this locally myself with hedr to secure all my agents: https://github.com/Runewardd/runeward

Compears: grocery prices are shit now so I designed this to aggregate prices across multiple grocery stores: https://compears.shop/

djake 4 hours ago||
I’m building www.movegoalpost.com. It’s a team based system for managing project requirements of any sort, but I’m focusing on software and product managers since it’s a segment I know.

The basic idea is that ticket (or chat) based workflows loose tons of context over time. During periods of rapid iteration, even the tickets themselves can’t always keep up with changes in the requirements. Goalpost projects are lightly structured documents. Due to that structure, it can easily give you a view of what changed in any particular update, or you can search or browse the overall up to date spec if you are just looking to get context on something.

There are some nice quality of life features. Changes live in batches which can (optionally) be subjected to customizable approval rules. Email notifications to stakeholders when requirements change. The ability to move changes to different batches, pre-approval.

Still WIP, but I’d love any feedback!

hassansayed2002 15 hours ago||
I am building my own framework it started as research project then it became a real product

https://devorajs-docs-docs.vercel.app https://github.com/hassanalsa3aka/devora.js

olivetea 18 hours ago||
U an working on https://createmascot.art/ a tool for software teams to create a consistent brand mascot and generate illustrations of it for empty states, onboarding, 404 pages, launch graphics, etc.

AI can make a good one-off character, but keeping that same character consistent across dozens of product illustrations is still surprisingly difficult. That’s the problem I’m trying to solve.

Would love any feedback.

lurker919 6 hours ago||
SO-101 ARM robotics handling. Options for getting into robotics more expensive and less varied than I expected!
JonArnfred 16 hours ago||
I'm working on ownershiptrace.com. It's an entry point to SEC, FINRA and congressional trades filings. The target users are sophisticated retail investors. It's an early work in progress, and hopefully will have a substantial free tier. Let me know if you would like to provide feedback, in which case I'll give you a free premium version (limited amount ofcourse).
maxk42 1 day ago|
I'm building InterviewMe ( https://interviewme.now/ ). It lets employers interview you via AI and is intended as a better way for people to get deep answers about your work history and experience than they could by looking at a simple online resume or LinkedIn. You upload your resume, answer some questions about your background, optionally upload any other documents you have (cover letters, awards, articles, etc) and it ingests all of that and creates a conversational agent people can use to ask questions about your professional experience. Check out my profile to get an idea of how it works: https://interviewme.now/@max and then get your own: It's free!
MikeNotThePope 1 day ago|
Sounds interesting. Any plans to open source it? I didn't see a GitHub link.
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