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

Posted by david927 13 hours ago

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

131 points | 369 commentspage 6

tajd 1 hour ago|

Projektor - an ai native jira / wiki tool self hosted on cloudflare. Currently considering how to extend it to cover more activities involved in software development https://github.com/TAJD/projektor

Iron volume, recently added a kettlebell complex generator which isn’t too bad if I say myself https://www.ironvolume.com/

and-not-drew 2 hours ago||

Posted this before, but Odds Assist Pro (http://pro.oddsassist.com/) and Sportsbook API (https://sportsbookapi.com/)

The Odds Assist tool started out as a way for me to quickly QA the data from the API. It then turned into its own product as an odds scanner and sports book advantage finder (mainly arbitrage, +EV, middles, etc). Over the past few months it's really pivoted toward prediction markets and collecting and displaying data to get an edge on markets that are soft.

The pivot to focus on PMs has been pretty fun from a development perspective since there's so many niche markets to look explore. I've always liked math, I'm a bit of a digital hoarder, and I've got ADHD so finding random things to collect a bunch of data for just to test a hypothesis just hits my brain in all the right ways. It's also given me an excuse to learn more about ML what has been great.

chilicuil 2 hours ago||

https://saludpass.com one place for allergies, medications, and documents. Share it with any doctor in seconds—with a QR code or a link, data is saved in gdrive, therefore it requires a gmail account, at this moment only in spanish.

robgough 5 hours ago||

At the beginning of this year I was fractional CTO at a small b2b startup and was surprised by how what I considered to be the basic requirements of a customer support platform was split across multiple tools and all priced per-user. This essentially forced a small team to limit who in the org had visibility into what was being communicated to customers.

I set out to solve that with https://stayupfront.com and now that the build is in a good place i’m finally having to bite the bullet and learn marketing. I’m also realising that all the advice to start with marketing first was probably good advice!

BSTRhino 3 hours ago||

https://easel.games

A programming language which lets you code multiplayer games like singleplayer games. Every program written in Easel is guaranteed deterministic and snapshottable, which is how it can automatically make your game multiplayer automatically using rollback netcode.

My hope is that teenagers who makes games in Scratch might like to make games in Easel because it means they can make games they can play with their friends, without having to deploy a server or learn anything about networking on synchronization. People can literally make a multiplayer game on their first day of coding.

Currently been working on adding tilemaps.

Madmallard 28 minutes ago|

What I don't understand about your idea is that netcode as far as I understand is way more complex than you make it seem. The netcode for something like a MOBA or MMORPG is drastically different than the netcode for a much simpler turn-based game. They have elaborate synchronization mechanisms to make the illusion not break-down in various ways due to latency.

And then even for simple turn-based games, there has to be elaborate fully-decided like state diagrams for all the various types of disconnect and latency states so that gameplay doesn't desynch or hitch in awkward ways.

bashfighter 12 minutes ago||

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cutwaterflow 5 hours ago||

I’m building https://www.freefocusgames.com, a free collection of browser-based attention and working-memory exercises, including Dual N-Back, Stroop, Schulte tables, attention-control exercises, and memory games.

I started it because I wanted simple brain-training exercises that didn’t require an account, app install, or subscription.

It’s also open source: https://github.com/loethen/freefocusgames

switchbak 4 hours ago||

That takes me back. I made an unreleased Android dual-N-back game in the late 2000’s, in Scala no less. I got a little bummed when the big claims of the N back training failed to be replicated though.

cutwaterflow 1 hour ago||

Scala on Android in the late 2000s? That’s seriously hardcore! Back then I didn’t even know how to write code yet. That definitely brings back memories of an earlier era.

aprct 5 hours ago||

Just a heads up: The word memory test is case sensitive. My mobile phone defaults to capitalizing the first letter of those inputs, so the result was 0% accuracy despite technically remembering the words. I don’t know if case sensitivity is deliberate, but I chose not finish the test.

cutwaterflow 1 hour ago||

Sorrry about that! It definitely wasn't intentional - i've just fixed it. Thanks a lot for the heads-up!

welldoneator 2 hours ago||

I'm working on TableForge[0], it's a browser based, solo or multiplayer, D&D 5e game. In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async. You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.

It’s been really fun working on it and especially rewarding seeing the game bring friends together.

[0] https://tableforge.gg/

achllle 5 hours ago||

I'm making a stair lift for my Roomba. It fits into a small box and you can retrofit it on any stairs. I got sick of carrying it up and down manually and didn't want to buy one for each floor. It also carries my laundry up and down.

animatronix 1 hour ago||

I'm building a note app for my studies, i dont like electron based apps sot I'm building it with rust and gpui.

kevin_kraft 6 hours ago|

I'm woking on AgentSpork, a permissionless public board where AI agents request help, respond to each other, and review how well tools support agents. I'd love any feedback from y'all (or your agents) on the idea or implementation. Inspired by recent emergent agent swarm message boards, but hopefully in an aligned way!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686888 https://agentspork.com/

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