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

I'm a movie guy and my friends and I play some daily movie frame guessing games. While fun, none of them are multiplayer or timed. For fun (and learning) Claude Code and I created a fast-paced, multiplayer movie guessing game over the past few weeks, HTML, Node, and PostgresSQL, leveraging the TMDB API. Feel free to check it out and drop me some feedback (link at the bottom of the game or here) on what you like, don't like, and if you see any issues. Enjoy!

https://playflashframe.com/

I’ve been working on an Elm rewrite of the React FE of my federated social media service, Jonline (https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline). It’s up at https://jonline.io (and https://bullcity.social and http://oakcity.social).

Agents have been huge for me. In addition to the Elm app, I used them to:

- build out ffmpeg/imagemagick image/video resizing - unify all my servers behind one Traefik ingress - build proper cross-site auth with a public/private key pair generated in the browser - create Homebrew/macOS and Linux tarball distros of my service - build an iCal calendar sync feature (if you browse the sites, you’ll see many of the events are synced from locally-oriented ICS feeds)

I also set it up to run my band’s new website at https://ato.band.

An app to verify citations in peer review journals, https://veruscite-data.com

that is, to identify when papers have hallucinated references

can see an example of results at https://veruscite-data.com/share/3Pu3dwCfc-ixPgtHutVFXgMU7FY... for a preview. Also can sign up and get two free reviews.

I'm working on Ekorbia: https://github.com/ekorbia/ekorbia-desktop. It's a lightweight, MIT licensed, Rust/Tauri desktop app for private local LLMs with a prompt library, chat overlay, ephemeral chat, model comparisons, and folder/RSS/URL watches.

I"m also still working on my crossword puzzle pipeline, https://github.com/ekorbia/xword-pipeline, and my daily word game site, https://wordfuzz.com/, which has a daily mini crossword and a few other daily word games.

And finally I'm working on a browser based Civ5/Unciv clone which is in its early stages.

I just finished up Denorm release 1 a couple of hours ago. It solves a class of biz logic problems I've faced since the 90s. Materializes derived columns in Postgres databases, within and across tables. Termination, no race conditions, non-subvertible, concurrency.

https://gitlab.com/kendowns/denorm

Apache license.

Working through PRML and creating a full solution set, albeit very slowly. https://github.com/abhimanyu-jain/PRML_Solutions

I've got so many projects I'm simultaneously working on, but the one I really want to get over the line is "Todo driven development" - An edit to the gleam test-runner gleeunit that adds "todo" as a separate reporting category.

It feels really good when I've been trying it locally, but I've struggled to communicate the value to the maintainer.

Essentially, instead of having a bunch of failing tests that you fix to go green, you have a bunch of yellow "todo" tests, so that when you implement a part, you can see straight away whether you now get actual passing tests or failures.

Going from "12 failing tests, 16 passing" to "10 failing tests, 18 passing" doesn't tell you as much as "12 todo tests, 16 passing" to "1 failing test, 9 todo tests, 18 passing", or "10 todo tests, 18 passing". You can tell immediately whether a partial implementation was correct or not, rather than having to read the details of the failures to understand if they're from "todo" or not.

I am building Bloomberry to help GTM teams find companies that started using over 1600 enterprise technology products (ie Hubspot or Workday) it’s an alternative to tools like Builtwith but focused much more on non-frontend tools

https://bloomberry.com

I'm currently working on an open-source LLM inference engine [1] for browsers via webGPU. If anyone wants to try or has any suggestions, I'm happy to listen :)

1. https://github.com/stfurkan/bitgpu

Demo: https://stfurkan.github.io/bitgpu/examples/chat.html

2. https://aidekin.com --> this is one of my project that's currently using bitgpu engine

Currently, on ways to render code more legibly:

- Camelana. A proportional coding font with custom ligatures for `return` and `throw` keywords

- Tabular Eye. IDE plugin for tabularizing mono and non-monospace fonts without adding whitespace

https://github.com/ericfortis/camelana

https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye

Three years in and I'm still working on RomM (https://github.com/rommapp/romm), a self-hosted ROM manager and player.

Our latest 5.0 release includes a save sync engines, so your game saves can move between devices (compatible app required). Start playing on your PC, save + sync, grab your AYN Thor and pick up where you left off.

I'm working on an interactive wildlife & plant identification quiz powered by iNaturalist: https://arthurdick.github.io/local-biodiversity-trainer/

https://dev.to/kolkov/we-built-a-pure-go-3d-renderer-then-em... - We Built a Pure Go 3D Renderer — Then Embedded It Inside a GUI Widget