Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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Hacker News users share hobby projects and side work, from SQL tools to kids' newspapers.
The post asks what users are working on and curious about. Answers include a bi-directional SQL editor (FiveQL), a Linux screen recorder written in Zig (Spacecap), a printed kids' newspaper (The Curiosity Times), an automatic local events aggregator (Whatson.town), analytics for AI chat recommendations (Lumirank), an AI coding course for non-engineers, a stateless data-exchange library (httpstate.com), an open-source calorie tracker (Onigiri), a timeline game (When?), a minimalist agent harness (smol), a privacy-friendly tools website, agent benchmarks, a music player for macOS (Petrichor), a PS1 programming tutorial overhaul, a discussion board for HN hiring posts, a sandboxed cloud VM agent platform (amika.dev), and an agentic live chat platform (SupportWire).
What commenters are saying
Many projects received positive feedback. The kids' newspaper drew strong criticism for using AI-generated imagery with errors like a compass with two norths, with commenters calling it unfit for children. The smol agent harness was praised for simplicity but critiqued for golfed code being hard to read and for intentional unrestricted model access. Commenters offered practical advice, such as packaging Spacecap for Debian. Enthusiasm was common for local events aggregator Whatson.town and the macOS music player Petrichor.