Ask HN: What are you working on(2026)?
What are you working on? Any new thoughts thats been lingering around that you want to share? My project are trying to respond to this question: "Where is your GitHub network building from?"? I called it GitHub Audience Atlas. It visualizes a GitHub user's network and shows them on a map by categories: followers, following, and ghosts (those who don't follow you back). https://github.com/ThierryRakotomanana/Github-Audience-Atlas How much of GitHub's location field is actually usable? I'd imagine a lot of people put things like 'The Internet' or emojis. Yeah, you're completely right. A lot of them don't put their location on their profile, and their stats really vary. But I've noticed many US users do add their location.Talking about that, I will add stats on what percentage are located That'd actually be a useful stat. It'd also be interesting to see the percentage of profiles with ambiguous locations that couldn't be mapped. Waouh! really appreciate this feedback If you are in a calorie surplus, your weight goes up. If you are in a calorie deficit, your weight goes down. MacroCodex uses that relationship to estimate your true maintenance calories over time: https://macrocodex.app/ This can be used to gain or lose weight. You simply need to eat above your maintenance calorie line to gain weight and below it to lose weight. No ads, no subscriptions, no payments, 16k users already. If you're interested in how it works: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/ Interesting. How long does it usually take before the maintenance estimate becomes accurate? Usually in 16-21 days Does it converge faster if someone logs their weight daily instead of weekly? yes, daily weighing helps a lot more so initially. got it , makes sense too! I have been working on Babel Nexus https://babelnexus.com It is a proof of concept for a site that uses hexagonal galleries. I wanted to show that it was possible to use the layout in the story from The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges to put other things in it like collections of books and media. It is partially about hexagonal architecture inside websites. I upadated it recently with layout improvements and added links to internet archvie audiobooks through Librivox for many of the books. Really like the idea of browsing knowledge instead of searching it. Have you noticed people discovering books they wouldn't have found through a traditional search? Not so much for individual searches, but for types of information. I have had people ask for hexagons covering ceramics, knitting, art, and other hexagons. A lot of the public domain sites are very generic. They are designed to promote popular subjects. Most of the tracking is at the hexagon level. Each hexagon has its own URL. I can add unique categories like Wisdom Literature, Visual Novels, Ancient Romance books. I can more easily add customizable subjects. The cortex map allows for a kind of browsing by subject. Once the subject is there, they go and find individual books. Through trial and error I managed to set it up so I can drop a full hex list of books in one step. It is kind of like a subject bibliography. I like the idea of subject bibliographies. Have you found any surprising connections between subjects while building the graph? I am finding that crafts as a subject is somewhere between science and knowledge. People argue about whether a craft is an art or more related to science with things like glass blowing or welding. There are other things like how Greek drama basically set the standard on the types of shows we watch even today with television with its basic set of categories. There are other things like the further back you go, the more basic the categories. Since the beginning schooling both in the Egyptian scribal schools and the Eduba has been about reading, writing, arithmetic, and morals. People seemm to want to keep the morals part out of it but it existed in Egypt and Mesopotamia as kings lists, wisdom literature, and religion. The kings lists seem to be the original political documents. You can watch the subjects expand as you go forward in time. I am looking for use cases and testimonials for the site which I created. If you have any suggested uses or experiences let me know. It would be helpful to see how people use the site as well as positive statements about the site. I need them to be from people that have some separation from me. I don't want to make things up. Don't let your clients testimonials to sleep. Use them to generate money. https://winproof-ai-b02bec49.vercel.app/ try this tool I had AI make a video for my site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehzX3PIc4kY I have a small bakery called Delis Croissants in Amol, Iran. I beleive we have the most delicious croissants in the world so we need a cool digital menu as well but I couldn't find a digital menu I liked, so I asked claude code to built my own: Rumizi. Rumizi is Persian for tablecloth, the thing on the table. Since you probably can't visit my bakery, I made demos from publicly available data for top NYC restaurants — starting with Katz's Delicatessen, which makes the best sandwiches in the world: https://katz-s-delicatessen.rumizi.com/ More NYC spots here: https://rumizi.com/restaurants each menu has a chat assistant, so you can ask it what to order.
I'm not affiliated with any of these restaurants; the demos are built from public data. I'm adding more, if you want your favorite restaurant on Rumizi, tell me here, or @irnco on Telegram or @srasoulj on Twitter. A browser agent that learns the API :)
Things like Claude in the browser are super slow, mostly because they just rely on the UI. With MCP they're much better. By learning the API it's like having a perfect MCP for each web app, making it much faster. If anyone is interested, here's a writeup how we've built it:
https://pluno.ai/blog/how-we-accidentally-built-a-faster-bro... Interesting idea. Once the agent has learned a product, what usually breaks first when the product ships a major UI/backend update? Seriously? There is a monthly thread on this that was just posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884984 Re-posting the same question just creates noise. I also thought that, but actually if you take a look. He take time to share real feedback. I think, that deserves to be shown, as many many projects didn't received any feedback and getting just one makes you feel better and motivate Great, he can provide that feedback on the monthly thread, too. Make that thread better, don't noise up the whole site. Good idea, I will try to help him for that