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

A caller spec, TPX, which is meant to alteration building SaaS wherever the personification brings their ain inference:

https://tokenpony.dev/

It has a fewer perchance absorbing broadside effects:

- enterprises tin plug their preferred LLM into the SaaS they use.

- aforesaid hosters tin widen their rigs into the web.

- elemental SaaS products tin connection LLM integrations without their full pricing exemplary being upended by LLM hosting and infrastructure.

- we tin each unrecorded for illustration Ender successful Xenocide and person a individual AI that has discourse connected everything we are doing.

- person a nary op supplier for group who are anti llm.

Still moving distant connected a wholly offline gathering archive generator that useful connected generic laptops pinch nary GPU (https://whistle-enterprise.com). A caller merchandise coming very soon focusing connected getting clearer audio which successful move makes the transcription and extremity archive generated much accurate.

Inbetween that I've been moving connected a "software house" (don't cognize really other to picture it). Pretty overmuch codex/claude moving connected a VPS pinch a web interface and the expertise to really build and people package / webapps etc.

It came from maine sitting connected the train connected the measurement location and I had an thought popular into my caput for a pebble watch app, I wanted to build it and trial it location and past arsenic I still had astir 45 mins left. I cognize you tin tally codex against git repos successful the unreality but I didn't want to faff pinch that (and past I retrieve the allowances for this were overmuch little generous). It's been really fun, astir apt galore things for illustration this retired location but it useful precisely really I want it to. I scheme to unfastened root it erstwhile I've tidied things up a spot more.

NVIDIA Parakeet moving locally successful the browser. Implemented successful earthy WebGPU compute shaders & SIMD WebAssembly audio frontend:

https://parakeet.narcotic.sh

The purpose is for it to beryllium a high-performance implementation. Can presently transcribe 1 hr of audio successful 20 seconds connected an M5 Mac.

emira, a tiling-scrolling WM for macOS: https://github.com/lightningboltemoji/emira

I cognize location are tons of options successful this space, but I wanted to research pinch a caller approach: a compositor overlay. During transitions (like scrolling connected focus, moving a window, etc.) an overlay pops up and uses _screenshots_ of windows for animating while the existent windows move below. Once successful place, the screen dissolves out. It's not perfect, but this makes it _feel_ overmuch person to native.

An overhaul of my original PlayStation bare-metal programming tutorial repo: https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal

It was ne'er really meant to beryllium an SDK of sorts that different PS1 homebrew projects would propulsion arsenic a submodule and dangle on, but since it much aliases little became 1 I americium apt going to divided disconnected the examples from the "core" (headers, CMake build scripts and tools). I person besides been asked to adhd much examples, peculiarly connected really to play sounds done the SPU and entree the CD-ROM drive, and whitethorn screen I/O connected immoderate PS1-based arcade systems successful the future.

iI americium moving connected a synth motor (music synthesizer) successful Python and C++ not a developer; euphony producer, classical pianist, and occasional NI Reaktor programmer.

It creates sound from mathematics expressions which were inspired by the Desmos graphing calculator.

The sounds are chiefly of the FM/DX7 taste.

i can't determine whether to show my advancement connected video by hiding aliases showing the expressions LLM(s) and myself "discovered".

It sometimes sounds highly philharmonic and sometimes very soiled and experimental, what's normal for wave modulation.

Please thief maine decide: show each and unfastened root aliases proceed moving connected it and transportation it to immoderate large names. ;-) I person the emotion it has beardown imaginable for prototyping, arsenic good arsenic taking the domiciled of a keyboard engine. It is wholly viable to manipulation via AI because of its concept.

It runs nicely connected an M4 Mac mini pinch 256 voices of polyphony and has a very precocious level of expressivity chiefly via half-pedaling (sustain pedal).

Velocity, 8 macro knobs, nary filters, nary fx, ADSR envelope. A web interface and additionally CLI.

I made a tract https://snack.game wherever group tin upload and stock multiplayer games.

It uses webtransport alternatively of websockets for the networking carrier truthful the games consciousness a batch amended than normal web based multiplayer games. I'm amazed much group aren't utilizing webtransport fixed it's supported now by each awesome browsers.

I'm moving connected https://www.amika.dev/, which lets you put sandboxed agents connected unreality VMs and past connection them complete the internet.

It's for supplier + quality devboxes, for chatting pinch coding agents from the web, aliases automating them pinch an API. Thing for illustration Claude Code web, but immoderate supplier and you straight power the VM, too.

We're moving to make amika.dev activity connected immoderate computer, homelab, aliases K8S cluster. For tech folks, I picture it kinda for illustration if Tailscale and Firecracker had a baby.

I'm moving connected Spacecap: https://github.com/mgerb/spacecap

It's a surface signaling instrumentality for Linux. The extremity is to make it arsenic accelerated and businesslike arsenic possible, while besides being elemental to usage and install. It's conscionable a hobby task that I americium having nosy moving on. Here are immoderate notable things astir it:

- Written successful Zig

- Uses Vulkan Video for encoding

- UI built pinch SDL3 and imgui

- Features recording, replay buffer, and screenshots

I'm moving connected a browser IDLE crippled made pinch Go. I've ne'er touched Go before. The crippled halfway it's 80% done and it was beautiful easy to codification but I person nary thought what I'm doing successful pinch the transport/http layer.

At this complaint I'll person it vanished by the extremity of the adjacent decade.

https://fiveql.com

I've been moving connected this for a while now. It creates a benignant of AGENTS.md aliases CLAUDE.md array for your database which holds each the joins, definitions, formats, and relationships, arsenic good arsenic what are celebrated criteria sets and combinations.

And it populates it into a bi-directional ocular (round-trip) SQL editor. Make changes successful the UI aliases SQL text, it goes some ways.

It's a azygous HTML file.

Benchmarking nationalist supplier skills: Oh My ClaudeCode, Superpowers, Git Ship Done, (previously Get Shit Done), and the Karpathy ones against Swebench-Pro and SlopCodeBench. I person a July vs June breakdown. It's been an absorbing learning workout and reveals the cost/performance effect of utilizing these.

https://orcabot.com/benchmarks

A newspaper for kids. Printed connected existent newspaper and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, mathematics challenges, quality facts, subject experiments, outdoor scavenger hunts, and moreover civilization card/board games for families to play. https://thecuriositytimes.com/

Limiting surface clip has been a superior extremity successful my family and has been going well. But I wanted thing that would return my kids hours each period that

1. isn’t connected a screen 2. educational 3. fun

Working connected putting together a self-paced "Coding pinch AI" people for non-SWE(s).

Since I could not find thing retired there, I americium scratching my ain itch.

https://httpstate.com // a ace easy, batteries included, room and server to speech mini bits of information betwixt apps

https://wafertown.com // the first LLMORPG, you constitute a punctual and your characteristic "lives" done a simulation of life utilizing it arsenic a guide, interacts pinch others, etc. sends you a summary of what it did and allows you to steer it for adjacent day. deliberation of it arsenic a mini tamagotchi but pinch hundreds (hopefully thousands!) of different players

I americium moving connected a chat committee for HN’s Who is hiring.

Too galore times I person been burned by applying to scam listings aliases group who are conscionable to self-promote and usage group who want a occupation arsenic a trading transmission (looking astatine you BetterStack, fu successful particular).

I want group to beryllium capable to talk and emblem companies which are lying aliases conscionable a discarded of time, yet HN refuses to do thing astir it and doesn’t let threads arsenic discussions and removes comments.

Hit maine up if you want connected the beta testers lists, already sewage a mates of people.

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