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

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Fascinating to see an outsized increase in "game" development compare to a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154065 (I'm sure someone could throw this into some llm analysis and prove it out, but a quick and dirty count of "game" between then two shows a 2x increase on roughly the same comment count).

I suspect has to do with having agentic coding assist for folks who would otherwise not have the means to develop a game, but now do.

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I’m working on https://markway.io/, a Markdown web highlighter.

The core idea is to make it easy to capture page content, highlights and images and everything will be formatted as Markdown and is easily editable in a performant little editor window.

Then from there, I’m working on multiple export services like Clipboard export and popular PKM apps like Obsidian, Roam Research, Capacities etc.

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Trying to visualise magnetic fields of a floppy disk.

So far I can see magnetic fields on a magstripe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8nM4Z-hkTw with two polarisers (one of which I rotate in the video, which is contained in a 3D printed holder with gears I made).

I'm awaiting some different polariser film, to see if I can get it to work with a floppy disk.

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I 3D printed some new apertures for an infrared spectrometer at work to reduce some issues that cause artifacts in the data to enable higher accuracy measurements, particularly of high index and reflective samples. Seems to be working well now.
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I'm working on https://wireplug.org: A simple, free, and open source connectivity coordinator for WireGuard. Basically a way to keep WireGuard tunnels connected while moving between different access points. It handles (basic) NAT traversal and works with the in-kernel WireGuard driver on Linux and OpenBSD. You can find the technical details at https://wireplug.org
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After watching the movie „The Amateur“ I started to build myself some confidential looking tools just for fun using C and deployed them as CGI programs.

A one time secret tool https://iotdata.systems/apps/secret.cgi

A password generator https://iotdata.systems/apps/pass_gen.cgi

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Been hacking on https://rsolv.dev. It's a security scanner with a couple of unique twists; in addition to using AST validation to cut the false positive rate, it uses a heavily orchestrated LLM to write unit tests that fail if the detected vulnerability is present.

Happy for alpha users; it's really early days right now. Email in profile if you want to give it a try at no cost.

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I’m a remote dev building an iOS app called Springus. You add a few pics / your closet basics, and it suggests outfits based on what you already own. It’s less “fashion app” and more “tiny morning momentum hack.”

Would love feedback from other WFH folks — a weird amount of my productivity comes down to how I start the day.

building a GPS tracker for my cats who like to wander outside.

some features:

- no monthly subscriptions

- location via GPS/GNSS

- a screen that hangs on my fridge (akin to marauders map, to see where the cats are at all times)

- the location data stays local always.

The tech will be extended to more products - a watch for adults, kids tracker etc. Will release here once I have all the tests completed!

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https://fuzzygraph.com - aspires to be the most beautiful equation graphing app
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words.saej.in

A site for filtering word lists and solving word puzzles

Anagrams, regular expression search, and a crossword helper, as well as several NYT word games.

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