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

Posted by david927 2 days ago

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?

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keithnz 1 day ago|

a replacement for Octopus deploy https://rolloutrhino.com/ (marketing page is mostly a placeholder). Octopus is super expensive for our company and scales poorly if you have lots of small projects. I've got pretty much everything working really well, and the main thing I'm working on is improving the UX for all the workflows I do most often. It is mostly built around what I wanted from the tool, but before I release it I'm looking at supporting various other ways people use the tool. It's been a fun project so far.

scientifik 1 day ago||

An app that lets you view social media without ads or algorithms.

https://narro.info

You add profiles from Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube and Narro pulls in the posts.

backtr4ck 1 day ago||

I'm using fable to find an exoplanet. Know nothing about it but have several TBs available in my server for data and a powerful GPU for processing so let's see what I can do with it.

arsentjev 1 day ago||

All in one platform for hosting agents

https://cantelop.com/

- Minimal setup - Any agent harness - A session is an actor - Opinionated infrastructure - Performance on the critical path

faceless3 1 day ago||

Cranpose - Rust GUI with jetpack Compose API https://github.com/samoylenkodmitry/Cranpose

sphyrna-029 1 day ago||

Chatter, a self hosted almost feature complete alternative to Discord: https://github.com/Sphyrna-029/Chatter

RagnarD 1 day ago||

What was your motivation for that, since Discord is open source?

sphyrna-029 1 day ago||

Is this question an AI litmus test?

Cider9986 1 day ago||

How does it compare to Fluxer and Stoat?

sphyrna-029 1 day ago||

At the time of starting the project, stoat did not have screen share capabilities. This was a non starter for our community. Fluxer looked promising, but quickly became overwhelmed by the self hosting docs. Chatter is for small to medium size communities that don't want to spend more time maintaining their app than using it. With chatter you forward a few ports, fill out the compose file, and you're set. Chatter is also a PWA, no native client updates to worry about.

gregsadetsky 1 day ago||

A few side projects!

- an open source AES67 hardware receiver/decoder - based on my friend Jessie's work [0]. I want speakers to have ethernet ports and to use an open/inexpensive stack. it's hard because physics/timing are brutal (1ms sync is ~not enough), but that's what makes it a great problem.

- an open source embroidery machine - based on my friend Owen's work [1]. Owen found Brother PE-150 machines which are readily available on eBay for ~$100 as they only work with proprietary 90s-era CF cards which nobody has (or sell for more than the machine). he designed a replacement motherboard (!!) and is running a fully open stack. it's wild.

- a ~$20 tiny cute display you can have on the side of your monitor, and display things on - realtime airport view from flightaware? a mini terminal? you can grab a display today [2], all that's missing is a 3d case (email me for firmware/OS code! I'll share it, just haven't had time). friends Frank and Sophie are working on a similar GUD-compatible display as well! [3]

- my friend Antoine has been working on Python bindings to Canonical's dqlite, a distributed sqlite-variant with raft-based failover and transactions (only C and Go clients existed) [4] - this will soon be a structural ("load-bearing"! haha!) part of Disco, a project we've been working on for a few years which lets you run your own PaaS. we're growing and get nice love letters [5] which for an open source project is obviously deeply rewarding

[0] https://jessie.grosen.systems/projects/aes67-receiver

[1] https://owentrueblood.com/blog/2024/12/10/reverse-engineerin...

[2] https://www.waveshare.com/rp2040-touch-lcd-1.69.htm

[3] https://bsky.app/profile/sophie.engineering/post/3muxysxhpck...

[4] https://pypi.org/project/dqlite-client/

[5] https://infinitedigits.co/disco/

pianopatrick 1 day ago||

I worked on my AI agent that feels like a unix util. This month I changed the way it writes and edits files

https://github.com/patrickjh/ssa

gavinhoward 1 day ago||

Not something I'm working on, but want to: a competitor to Perforce that will be cheaper and easier.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure that being better is enough to compete, so I'm sitting on it for now.

Sau1707 1 day ago|

https://github.com/xLongLink/longlink

Think about GitHub, but for processes and data.

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