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Posted by david927 2 days 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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thomasjeff1 2 days ago|
On a mission to prove you don't need YC to be successful.
itake 2 days ago||
Trying to reduce my doomscrolling IG and FB usage

I created https://getnoloop.com to block the feed on iOS

w_t_payne 1 day ago||
Agent-first engineering infrastructure:- The "OS" for sovereign re-industrialisation.

The systems engineering V-model provides us with a general-purpose approach to solving difficult problems. It comes with an array of proven and trusted standards and document-oriented processes.

Given the number and detail of these documents and processes, automating some realisation of V-model is almost trivial. Tools like Codex and Claude Code are hardly less reliable and trustworthy than human engineers, and the existing standards already contain ways of mitigating the impact of imperfect work performed by error-prone agents.

The generality of this "Autonomous Systems Engineer" gives it a genuine claim to be something approaching AGI. Certainly it enables us to tackle much bigger and more challenging problems than we could with only the LLMs on their own. (Yes, it's "just another harness-of-harnesses", but that doesn't mean that what it can do isn't significant).

In addition to providing automation of high-integrity engineering practices, my project also provides a disciplined communication layer that sits on top of A2A or other similar protocols, enabling small agent-first engineering organisations to exchange well-defined highly-assured documents and accelerate b2b collaboration - enabling "swarms" of small, agile businesses to take on larger and more demanding challenges than they would be able to individually.

iqbal1980 1 day ago||
Been working on Ezducate.ai a special education ai powered platform
djake 1 day 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!

Sachinrao 1 day ago||
I am working on simple timer app for students prepping UPSC an prestigious govt exams in India
zopf 1 day ago||
Options market-making. I trained a custom volatility model on historical data, built a passive delta hedge MM, render a synthetic underlying price from many market data sources, and a number of other interesting elements. It has been really fun to get back to my trading systems roots after 12 years as a startup CTO selling to enterprise clients and managing teams and managers. Now I just manage a bunch of Fable and Opus claude code sessions and a handful of high-performance servers. Opus makes a lot of ignorant mistakes and then explains them in great detail, but if I spend lots of time in Plan mode and then bash my head against the wall enough, we get there. Fable mostly gets it right and communicates effectively; what a relief! Still need to give Astra a try. I still feel ahead of the models on context, but am getting outpaced in many other ways. It's a very fun collaboration!
oxi113 1 day ago||
Last month I've finished the reverse-engineering of the original WON-era Half-Life launcher from 90s (https://github.com/oxiKKK/re-goldsrc-won-launcher-1792).

This was an interesting thought experiment for me, because I always loved reverse-engineering old games (Half-Life in particular) and restoring the original looks and properties of the code.

In this project I tried to use LLMs extensively to reverse the code for the first time to bring it back to its original potential look. Frankly, it worked and the code is now available to the public.

moralestapia 2 days ago||
All those things I use once in a while, I put them on one place without ads or bs. Optimized for usability, not impressions or whatever.

https://sfw.tools

If there's a tool you'd like to see there, let me know and I'll add it.

piratebroadcast 2 days ago|
An Openclaw, Hermes Agent type system that is meant to be ran on a home server, built in Rails with a Tauri 2 front-end.
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