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

I like sports! I like data! Combine!

This lets you see what the games on today are most similar to in the history of the sport. Click into one and see.

Also, the Sports Zodiac.

Like farmers of the olden years and the stars, we kinda set our clocks by sports these days. But what does that look like?

'Play the Years' to see a good timeline of how the years go by.

The war years, the lockouts, and the pandemic are just really easy to see in the data and quite stunning really

I thought I’d get where I wanted much faster, but it turns out I ran into quite a few challenges: it’s quick to build something simple, but it takes much longer to get a reader that’s robust and pleasant to use (extraction, parsing, security, infrastructure, etc.).

On the tech side, I’m using my usual stack, Laravel and Livewire, with some Python for extraction and Go for the email infrastructure. This month I’m working on the beta release, since several people around me were already using it, so I’d like to gather more feedback.

Most planners treat your schedule as fixed, so the moment a meeting runs long or a task takes twice as long, the plan is wrong and you either fix it by hand or give up on it. In Ember, if you move a task or change how long it takes, everything after it shifts later, and it flows around fixed things like meetings. It's been super helpful and I have been adding new features ever since.

Right now I'm working on a native Kotlin app to replace the current one is web + Capacitor and exploring full duplex voice models so I can add or move things around the app while having a conversation with an agent.

homepage: https://emberflow.space demo: https://demo.emberflow.space/?ref=hn

Other than this, I'm playing with vibe-coding stuff I always wanted to do but never had the time/skills to do. For example, I built a TUI on top of beancount that is tailored to my needs and my business[2]. I also completely got rid of self-hosted plausible and umami analytics, and replaced them with vibe-coded built-in-rust (c) analytics tool that relies on both js-beacon and streaming of caddy access.log. Will probably publish about it in my blog soon, so subscribe to the RSS if you want.

Lastly, I'm messing with self-hosting. I completely ditched Github and Gitlab for self hosted forgejo + actions runner. I set up proper backup plan for everything I care (documents, immich library, my SaaS DB, and the forgejo repositories).

[1] https://justfaxonline.com

[2] https://kudmitry.com/articles/after-14-years-i-finally-built...

It’s been getting a decent number of sign ups despite me not really posting it anywhere or doing any marketing.

Ultimately a fun project, and useful for myself and a few friends, so I’m happy others are even interested in trying it.

I’ve started to regret using Phoenix LiveView, as it’s only deployed in one region, so high latency far from there. I’m exploring a SPA as a better alternative.

Otherwise, I’ve been playing around with a Lua engine to build feeds for websites that don’t support them, using AI to build the Lua as a once-off. It works reasonably well, but isn’t ready for prime time just yet.

It's a traditional systems language in the sense that you have fine control over how resources are used, but it's abstract in the sense that you have to come to an agreement with the compiler about your intent around the resources, rather than directly declaring the machinery.

It's a distributed language in the sense that there is a higher level structural abstraction in the language that situates computations of the program within a recursive graph structure. Part of that structure incorporates message broker semantics. This gives the compiler a unified view of programs across arbitrary process boundaries. The structural abstractions also enable an effects+formal verification syntax within the language, which allows programmers to codify architectural decisions that are then checked by the compiler.

The compiler itself is infrastructure aware, and the highest layer of functionality it handles is configuring the environment into which applications deploy. The single language handles everything from individual memory allocations to distributed fleet deployments.

The language is close to v1, and I'm currently building a fully distributed inference-as-a-service application with it. Arbitrary hardware/supply matched against arbitrary callers/demand in real time.

https://github.com/hale-lang/hale https://github.com/hale-lang/voice

Also have some other cool browser-based 3d game projects listed here: https://brynnbateman.com/

When playing Zwift, Rouvy, etc, I find that I get too competitive and ruin longer workouts by trying to keep up with or sprint past people who are much faster than me over long distances.

This is bad for building stamina and endurance, but I get bored, and it's hard to fight boredom and physical strain both at once.

I do not get bored sitting in front of Balatro, Raccoin, Tetris - anything with bright colours and satisfying noises and combos.

The first finished prototype game is very simple: you sort coloured marbles. Higher watt output from the bike means marbles are blown, by wind, upwards as they roll across the screen. Lower watt output means they fall. Steady watt output means they move horizontally. Marble goes into correct hole -> satisfying noise. It rewards steady watt output over time, with minor adjustments, which is what I'm trying to work on right now.

I was pretty amazed by how engaging I found it (total iPad baby brain). The miles really fly by - I get tired before I get bored.

I think that next I'll either do a tower defence game, or a less-dopamine-rewarding game in the style of Kerbal Space Program. Taking your actual weight and watt output, putting a bike with wings into a physics engine, and the gameplay loop being unlocking increasingly large airplane pieces, and designing - then flying - increasingly ridiculous airborne bicycles seems like a compelling idea, though less good for fitness.

The control surface being so limited - essentially one measurement which can either go up or down - is a really fun constraint for creativity.

I'm a product designer by trade and learnt to vibe code on Claude about a month ago now. I was weaning my baby and he developed a rash and haven't been able to work out what the pattern was causing it. So I created an app for weaning parents to log the food, add any reactions so when talking to their GP they can start to see a pattern and all advice, like nutrients, food variety, how to serve food all coming from the NHS and FSA.

Currently got 12 mums using the app and would love any feedback to make it even better! <3

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/niblet-weaning-diary/id6822680...

https://getniblet.app

I got overwhelmed by walls of text of parallel Claude Code sessions. This limited the sessions I could steer in parallel to maybe 5 or 6. I knew there had to be a better way, and I found one: A canvas per project. Work laid out as cards. An agent in a worktree per card. Chat condensed to WhatsApp-style back and forth, not a litany of tool calls. Result is usually a narrated demo video that I can comment on by voice to have the agent go another round. Remote-control from my phone. Remote workers to scale beyond my machine. Everyone I know who tried it has stuck with it so far.

https://github.com/sadilek/obeya

I'm at the point where I'm finally actively using it to register my activity, it is straightforward to register tickets by sending them to a telegram bot, then, reconcile those by uploading my bank statement.

I'm trying to get the lowest possible usage friction so that I keep using it.

So far the better built pieces related to the data ingestion. Once this is good enough I'll build reports + anything coming to my head as a useful piece.

I'm leveraging AWS textract + bedrock + bda to parse bank statements. I expected this would have been easier but it is still a very complex problem which had required me to put many iterations (so far it works nicely with my own statements)

For ticket parsing, AWS textract + parsing rules has been enough.

I wrote a bit more on my blog https://alexitc.com/blog/2026-10-16-opensourcing-my-expense-...

Repo at https://github.com/AlexITC/expense-tracker/

https://github.com/InditexTech/kumoss

Basically allow developers to request any infrastructure need in a web portal and automatically that request is fulfilled following the organization standards the platform team defined.

Any feedback or comment is more than welcomed!

Any feedbac

A simple EU static and app hosting service: PodBy [2]. It was launched last week, and is at €10 MRR.

Thank you for asking and for your suggestions!

[1]: https://uruky.com

[2]: https://podby.com

It's been a fun project to work on since it's been a pain point for myself on many projects, so I'm mostly just trying to solve my own set of problems and hoping other people find it useful too.

[1] https://sendery.co

Thesoapbox.email - a social experiment email lottery to see what people do when suddenly given enormous reach. Every day a new subscriber is drawn to email the whole list. It’s hit 10,000 views in a couple of weeks which is my most viral project so far.

The second - a personal AI learning platform built on recursive self improvement and tailored content to push my boundaries. I’m a lifelong learner and this unifies everything for me. (Currently not public)

- hermitator, a tool to run multiple isolated AI agents for WhatsApp on a single machine, with idle agents using no RAM: https://www.encona.com/posts/hermitator/

- showntell, which allows your coding agent to explain things to you with a video that starts playing within a few seconds of you asking: https://www.encona.com/posts/showntell/

- a philosophy tutor (testing in private for now) that does 2:1 live philosophy lessons, each exploring a single topic (aimed at ~10yo kids). I've tested this successfully (i.e. two kids did an hour and they want to do it again), and am trying to make improvements.

- some other education-related things

- a jmail-style mailbox viewer: https://www.encona.com/posts/mailbox-viewer/

I’m looking for ways to fund printing and distribute the book. If anyone has done something similar, I’d love to learn from your experience!

It started with building pi in the cloud - with pure cloud flare workers. I have it working now, and can spin up - the wrangler agent can fully run it as long as you pass it an inference key, including a file view, a chatgpt like experience, and ability to build and host custom apps. Can use alarms to wake up to do plain language tasks, etc.

Trying to figure out how to package this up, and where this would even be useful for other apps.

It has if nothing else been very useful for me (it has correctly deduced that I would get something out of borrowing Grief is the Thing With Feathers, the Dispossessed, and Cosmicomics, none of which I would have thought of reading). Plus it has been a fun opportunity to play around with LLMs as an interface and a research and reverse engineering tool; as well as Jev for non-user facing quality work like banning crap openrouter providers based on their output before putting it in front of a user.

Most recently I’ve been dropping off flyers for it at a few local libraries in my area.

I always got annoyed by change this h1 to h2, add tracking to share button, why can’t the customer play the video, the styles don’t match figma.

If you are engineer who also gets distracted I would love to hear your opinion and feedback. It is a bit hard to put it all together as every department has his own needs and opinion about the website.

My email kamran.elchuzade@gmail.com

Not quite ready to open up sign-ups, but you can get an idea of the site here: https://linkedl.ist/@kale

and this weekend I'll finally launch a tool for guitarists and their friends https://kantamigo.com/

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

Accept online card payments from just 0.79% (UK) and earn 0.89% on all card spend [1], or get paid out to your bank.

I'm building tuppence to be available in the US, and 20 EU countries.

I'm getting a Point of Sale (POS) manufactured in the UK [2] for those who want to accept payments in person with card readers.

My goal is to help people sell their goods and make a living without paying over the odds for the privilege.

I charge a competitive fee for payment processing, give money back on card spend (with no cashback caps/limits) and do not charge saas fees or lock people into contracts.

Tuppences currently allows people to sell online with a store builder, expense management, payment links, direct debits & bookings - essentially Tuppence is a 'business' layer on top of what you get from the likes of Stripe, Adyen and Checkout.com. There's also have a 'connect' platform, so you can roll this out to your marketplace business.

Next on my roadmap is ticketing and 'treasury'. Treasury i'm personally excited about as you'll be able to earn 4% yield on your earnings, FDIC Insurance (FSCS in the UK), multi-currency banking in fiat balances such as USD, EUR, and GBP, or stablecoin balances like OUSD and USDC, and have bank account numbers to send or receive funds.

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It's brand new, i'm still testing payment -> payout flows. These take a little time to verify on live payment rails.

Happy to give some fee-free payment processing for those who reach out and want to be early adopters, I can be reached at ollie@tuppence.ai, or comment on thread.

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Tech Stack TLDR:

* TypeScript monorepo covering the API, dashboard, docs, mobile app and SDKs. * The API runs on Ts.ED over Express with TypeORM and Postgres. * Background jobs use pg-boss, so the queue lives in Postgres and there’s no Redis or separate broker. * The dashboard, till and storefront are React + Vite + Tailwind, the docs and help centre are Astro, and the mobile app is React Native/Expo. We ship SDKs for Node, Python, iOS, Android, React Native and WordPress, plus an MCP server and agent tools. * Everything runs on Google Cloud Run and Cloud SQL.

References:

[1] Card issuing: https://tuppence.ai/cards [2] Point of sale: https://tuppence.ai/pos/ridge/

Good news though, these days Claude will just do it for me!

I’ve been working on setting up a home media server, using headless Debian on a pi - I’ve got it set up to stream music and videos, hold all my ROMs, I’ve got it automatically standardizing file names and handling tagging and subtitles - all attached to a big 6-drive enclosure that I just stuffed all my random old HDDs into.

Even though I haven’t written more than a dozen lines of code or commands for the whole thing, I am pretty fuckin pleased that now I can just wave a magic wand and say “I want all my video game soundtracks filed under the game name rather than the artist” and Claude uh finds a way to grant my wish. I spend about an hour each night tweaking it and it’s so easy to customize to be exactly what I need.