What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?
Discussion Highlights (20 comments)
PopFlamingo
I’m building a website for discovering first names that’s enjoyable to explore: https://abracadanames.com It started with a family member telling me they were frustrated with existing websites. What I noticed is that in many cases they feel cluttered and not smooth to use, almost like a 1-to-1 translation of the underlying database queries, where they have you choose filters and sorting options upfront then browse the paginated results. I wanted to avoid all of that by creating a different experience; I built an interactive full-screen wall UI with infinite browsing so that most of the screen space is dedicated to the core content. I worked on the name sampling algorithm to try to make it as enjoyable to browse as I could, and the only filter displayed by default is the one to select genders. More advanced queries are available through the search field which supports natural language queries, running on a local multilingual interpretation engine with a cloud LLM fallback. The database engine is custom built with Rust, compiled to WASM for higher performance when running on CloudFlare Workers. I don’t use an external DB service for names today. What I’m pretty proud of is to know a lot of technical work is hidden behind that UI, and how it has been shaped by the experience I wanted instead of the other way around.
MomohNobert
I've been working on https://pronto.stream/ , I wanted to mess around with MCP and building a world news system to power the decision making and surveillance of other systems I would likely curate. I was curious about formats more efficient for agent communication than JSON and also proving if the framework I curated could handle the load and traffic. It's been really fun to observe.
YoucefHQ
The 2026-27 soccer season just started. If you love catching up on highlights, check https://thepelota.tv/ It’s like Netflix but for soccer highlights, with all the major leagues in one place as soon as they are available on YouTube, all free and no ads.
continuational
I've been working on a typed, functional-imperative, full stack programming language with IDE support: https://www.firefly-lang.org/
spottedmarley
I'm looking for land to buy in Wyoming to build my AI apocalypse bunker on.
kilroy123
I'm trying to build a tool site that has all the tools you'll ever need. I slowly add some each week. https://allthedamn.tools
piazz
I’ve been hacking on a single Anki extension for… the last three years now: https://smart-notes.xyz The idea is to make an extension that allows you to flexibly fill out fields on your cards with AI generated text, speech, and images. Think generating example sentences for your entire deck, or adding furigana to kanji (small phonetic characters with a very delicate syntax). It works just as well for language learners as it does for medical students, etc. The secondary goal has been to make this the most well designed, intuitive, and stable Anki extension in the world. I don’t think it’s there yet, but it’s on its way. It’s been very interesting to try to work out a design that affords the flexibility to generate anything for whatever you’re studying but remains approachable and discoverable to your marginal Anki user, many of whom are younger and have varying levels of English ability. Many interesting technical challenges as well. Slowly building towards the Show HN post, but need a few more features. Connecting with and chatting with dedicated users in countries around the world over the last few years has made this the most gratifying thing I’ve ever built! It’s still at the scale that receiving support emails is fun and I can build relationships with power users and long term subscribers.
lapkaaaa
- i dropped a neural net jane street puzzle ( https://huggingface.co/spaces/jane-street/droppedaneuralnet ) very good mindbreaker, learned a lot of new things on the way
ponyous
https://grandpacad.com - AI modeling for 3D printing Been at it for about year and a half. Really exciting stuff is happening literally every month, because underlying models are getting better and better. When I started it was pretty basic: “make a cube with a hole through it”. Now it’s at the point “make a raspberry pi 4 case” and the agent searches, builds, verifies… What surprised me in this process is how little meaning AI benchmarks have. Pareto frontier for my use case looks completely different than any other benchmark portrays.
steven123
Build one of the best emoji sites there is. https://emojistime.com
gavmor
I'm decompiling an obscure 1998 computer game using an LLM agent skill that I'm simultaneously developing from papers and books on reverse-engineering (a subject I've never previously engaged with) with the aim of migrating it (well, at least its assets) to the browser: https://esoteria.pages.dev Here's the skill: https://github.com/gavmor/x86-cpp-reversing-skill It's all slop, but it's battle-tested and producing results. It's quite fun and inspiring to see some of these assets like textures and geometry that are improperly decompiled, bit shifted or something like that. produces a lot of abstract, glitchy art. To make sure that my process and results are reproducible, I've gotten back into maintaining Concourse CI pipelines. They were very useful when we were shipping a fork of k8s for VMware, and now they are a fun way of shipping cyberpunk billboard sprites to Cloudflare buckets. I got back into Concourse in order to attempt a more rigorous approach to generative AI experimentation as well. Unfortunately, there are just so many odd techniques, configurations, loras, and utilities striking my fancy that my experiment pipelines have exploded into the dozens, and Concourse is not a large enough or a high-level enough organizing principle.
ipunchghosts
Software to promote live music and drink specials so I don't have to check dozens of Instagram accounts to find out what's happening tonight. https://nittanynights.com/ https://indyafterfive.com/ I wrote my own site parsing toolkit which removed the friction I have with the current ones. It's now easy to add new locations quickly to scale.
le-flaneur
Slowly putting my photography online again at https://flaneurphoto.com - in the middle of composing soundscapes for some of the works. Finally getting around to organising my photo archive and setting up a metadata extraction pipeline that makes sense for me. (At the day job, curious about adapting app layouts to accommodate the iPhone Duo and address the various Android foldables at the same time, too).
primaprashant
Haven't added a demo to the repo yet (will do soon) but building this TUI [1] in Go to manage my agent skills. I don't like putting 20-30 agent skills in the .claude/skills/ dir and letting the agent figure it out. I keep all the skills I've created and adapted over time in a separate git repo and then from there I copy them to the project skill dir when i need them for a session and then remove them when I'm done. This TUI just replaces all the manual work with ls, cp -r, and rm -rf commands with a few keystrokes. [1] https://github.com/primaprashant/sei
mickeyvanolst
I've been working on a collection of native AI/ML operators for TouchDesigner on macOS. Think of it as a happy marriage between the interface of TouchDesigner but with some of the features you know from ComfyUI. https://www.patreon.com/MickeyvanOlst/posts/meet-aml-macos-1... Typically TD for the Mac has always been a bit underserved, by leaning into some of the frameworks that exclusively exist on macOS I'm hoping more people will see it as a viable platform for this kind of stuff.
vmsp
I've been building a framework for web, ios and android native development at https://github.com/vmsp/flypath . It's based on the Server-Driven UI philosophy where the backend streams both code and UI into a frontend that just knows how to render what it's told. This is pretty cool because it makes it makes over-the-air updates possible. It also follows the batteries-included philosophy of Rails. Has an ORM, background and cron jobs (all based on Postgres), Django-style migrations, JSX Emails and pretty great FFI that's built around a simple `"use native"` directive, in the React Server Component fashion).
itake
Trying to reduce my doomscrolling IG and FB usage I created https://getnoloop.com to block the feed on iOS
thomasjeff1
On a mission to prove you don't need YC to be successful.
gtadesktop1
I'm working on a own x86_64 UEFI Operating System (OS). The idea is to make an OS that looks like Windows Vista but behave like Linux, so it's a mix of Windows and Linux. I've startet three weeks ago with a custom bootloader and the legacy bios VGA textbuffer and now I'm working on a real USB-HID (USB-Human Interface Device) and have troubles with the keyboard. I also have problems with booting from real hardware. If anyone is good at low level developing the project is source available and I appreciate collaborations with other os developers. Link to Codeberg-repo: https://codeberg.org/vntx-labs/VeloOS Hope that is no problem that I use this thread a bit for self-promotion. If so just write a reply I'll remove this comment if this is a problem
mkdcrl
Cricket, a visual scripting plugin for Figma inspired by Grasshopper for Rhino. I find Grasshopper, especially its data model, ideal for a certain type of algorithmic art/design, and have always wanted to use it in a 2D graphics package. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1677548868352947603/c...
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)
PopFlamingo
I’m building a website for discovering first names that’s enjoyable to explore: https://abracadanames.com It started with a family member telling me they were frustrated with existing websites. What I noticed is that in many cases they feel cluttered and not smooth to use, almost like a 1-to-1 translation of the underlying database queries, where they have you choose filters and sorting options upfront then browse the paginated results. I wanted to avoid all of that by creating a different experience; I built an interactive full-screen wall UI with infinite browsing so that most of the screen space is dedicated to the core content. I worked on the name sampling algorithm to try to make it as enjoyable to browse as I could, and the only filter displayed by default is the one to select genders. More advanced queries are available through the search field which supports natural language queries, running on a local multilingual interpretation engine with a cloud LLM fallback. The database engine is custom built with Rust, compiled to WASM for higher performance when running on CloudFlare Workers. I don’t use an external DB service for names today. What I’m pretty proud of is to know a lot of technical work is hidden behind that UI, and how it has been shaped by the experience I wanted instead of the other way around.
MomohNobert
I've been working on https://pronto.stream/ , I wanted to mess around with MCP and building a world news system to power the decision making and surveillance of other systems I would likely curate. I was curious about formats more efficient for agent communication than JSON and also proving if the framework I curated could handle the load and traffic. It's been really fun to observe.
YoucefHQ
The 2026-27 soccer season just started. If you love catching up on highlights, check https://thepelota.tv/ It’s like Netflix but for soccer highlights, with all the major leagues in one place as soon as they are available on YouTube, all free and no ads.
continuational
I've been working on a typed, functional-imperative, full stack programming language with IDE support: https://www.firefly-lang.org/
spottedmarley
I'm looking for land to buy in Wyoming to build my AI apocalypse bunker on.
kilroy123
I'm trying to build a tool site that has all the tools you'll ever need. I slowly add some each week. https://allthedamn.tools
piazz
I’ve been hacking on a single Anki extension for… the last three years now: https://smart-notes.xyz The idea is to make an extension that allows you to flexibly fill out fields on your cards with AI generated text, speech, and images. Think generating example sentences for your entire deck, or adding furigana to kanji (small phonetic characters with a very delicate syntax). It works just as well for language learners as it does for medical students, etc. The secondary goal has been to make this the most well designed, intuitive, and stable Anki extension in the world. I don’t think it’s there yet, but it’s on its way. It’s been very interesting to try to work out a design that affords the flexibility to generate anything for whatever you’re studying but remains approachable and discoverable to your marginal Anki user, many of whom are younger and have varying levels of English ability. Many interesting technical challenges as well. Slowly building towards the Show HN post, but need a few more features. Connecting with and chatting with dedicated users in countries around the world over the last few years has made this the most gratifying thing I’ve ever built! It’s still at the scale that receiving support emails is fun and I can build relationships with power users and long term subscribers.
lapkaaaa
- i dropped a neural net jane street puzzle ( https://huggingface.co/spaces/jane-street/droppedaneuralnet ) very good mindbreaker, learned a lot of new things on the way
ponyous
https://grandpacad.com - AI modeling for 3D printing Been at it for about year and a half. Really exciting stuff is happening literally every month, because underlying models are getting better and better. When I started it was pretty basic: “make a cube with a hole through it”. Now it’s at the point “make a raspberry pi 4 case” and the agent searches, builds, verifies… What surprised me in this process is how little meaning AI benchmarks have. Pareto frontier for my use case looks completely different than any other benchmark portrays.
steven123
Build one of the best emoji sites there is. https://emojistime.com
gavmor
I'm decompiling an obscure 1998 computer game using an LLM agent skill that I'm simultaneously developing from papers and books on reverse-engineering (a subject I've never previously engaged with) with the aim of migrating it (well, at least its assets) to the browser: https://esoteria.pages.dev Here's the skill: https://github.com/gavmor/x86-cpp-reversing-skill It's all slop, but it's battle-tested and producing results. It's quite fun and inspiring to see some of these assets like textures and geometry that are improperly decompiled, bit shifted or something like that. produces a lot of abstract, glitchy art. To make sure that my process and results are reproducible, I've gotten back into maintaining Concourse CI pipelines. They were very useful when we were shipping a fork of k8s for VMware, and now they are a fun way of shipping cyberpunk billboard sprites to Cloudflare buckets. I got back into Concourse in order to attempt a more rigorous approach to generative AI experimentation as well. Unfortunately, there are just so many odd techniques, configurations, loras, and utilities striking my fancy that my experiment pipelines have exploded into the dozens, and Concourse is not a large enough or a high-level enough organizing principle.
ipunchghosts
Software to promote live music and drink specials so I don't have to check dozens of Instagram accounts to find out what's happening tonight. https://nittanynights.com/ https://indyafterfive.com/ I wrote my own site parsing toolkit which removed the friction I have with the current ones. It's now easy to add new locations quickly to scale.
le-flaneur
Slowly putting my photography online again at https://flaneurphoto.com - in the middle of composing soundscapes for some of the works. Finally getting around to organising my photo archive and setting up a metadata extraction pipeline that makes sense for me. (At the day job, curious about adapting app layouts to accommodate the iPhone Duo and address the various Android foldables at the same time, too).
primaprashant
Haven't added a demo to the repo yet (will do soon) but building this TUI [1] in Go to manage my agent skills. I don't like putting 20-30 agent skills in the .claude/skills/ dir and letting the agent figure it out. I keep all the skills I've created and adapted over time in a separate git repo and then from there I copy them to the project skill dir when i need them for a session and then remove them when I'm done. This TUI just replaces all the manual work with ls, cp -r, and rm -rf commands with a few keystrokes. [1] https://github.com/primaprashant/sei
mickeyvanolst
I've been working on a collection of native AI/ML operators for TouchDesigner on macOS. Think of it as a happy marriage between the interface of TouchDesigner but with some of the features you know from ComfyUI. https://www.patreon.com/MickeyvanOlst/posts/meet-aml-macos-1... Typically TD for the Mac has always been a bit underserved, by leaning into some of the frameworks that exclusively exist on macOS I'm hoping more people will see it as a viable platform for this kind of stuff.
vmsp
I've been building a framework for web, ios and android native development at https://github.com/vmsp/flypath . It's based on the Server-Driven UI philosophy where the backend streams both code and UI into a frontend that just knows how to render what it's told. This is pretty cool because it makes it makes over-the-air updates possible. It also follows the batteries-included philosophy of Rails. Has an ORM, background and cron jobs (all based on Postgres), Django-style migrations, JSX Emails and pretty great FFI that's built around a simple `"use native"` directive, in the React Server Component fashion).
itake
Trying to reduce my doomscrolling IG and FB usage I created https://getnoloop.com to block the feed on iOS
thomasjeff1
On a mission to prove you don't need YC to be successful.
gtadesktop1
I'm working on a own x86_64 UEFI Operating System (OS). The idea is to make an OS that looks like Windows Vista but behave like Linux, so it's a mix of Windows and Linux. I've startet three weeks ago with a custom bootloader and the legacy bios VGA textbuffer and now I'm working on a real USB-HID (USB-Human Interface Device) and have troubles with the keyboard. I also have problems with booting from real hardware. If anyone is good at low level developing the project is source available and I appreciate collaborations with other os developers. Link to Codeberg-repo: https://codeberg.org/vntx-labs/VeloOS Hope that is no problem that I use this thread a bit for self-promotion. If so just write a reply I'll remove this comment if this is a problem
mkdcrl
Cricket, a visual scripting plugin for Figma inspired by Grasshopper for Rhino. I find Grasshopper, especially its data model, ideal for a certain type of algorithmic art/design, and have always wanted to use it in a 2D graphics package. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1677548868352947603/c...