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

Always on the look for new sources to be added. If you have a blog or read any that you want to recommend. Just let me know.

So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the form, submit it, and get the official USCIS PDF filled.

https://fillvisa.com/demo/

https://www.puzzleship.com/

Currently experimenting with a proactive agent, Don, that pops up like clippy and also works over email.

https://donethat.ai All the data security measures here: https://donethat.ai/data And other tools out there: https://donethat.ai/compare

I just updated the RAW pipeline and I'm really happy with how the resulting photos look, plus there's this cool "RAW+ProRAW" capture mode I introduced recently.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unpro-camera/id6535677796

I initially released it early last year and have been using it as my main camera app since, but I haven't mentioned it in one of these threads before. Unfortunately this post has come just a bit early for my most recent update to be approved; there's some nice improvements coming.

I'm enjoying building a website with solitaire and puzzle games.

I am currently rewriting the engine for the fourth time and plan to add 400 games to the platform in the coming months, as well as social features such as daily challenges, awards and leaderboards.

My main goal, however, is to make this project the largest collection of free modern solitaire games available for mobile devices and desktop computers.

So far, the project has been incredibly exciting, and I've learned so much!

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

There's millions of tools that try to autogenerate colors for you using algorithms and AI, but they usually ignore WCAG accessible contrast requirements, don't let you customise the tints/shades, don't let you create a full palette of colors, and the colors often don't look right on actual designs.

This tool is meant to make customising tints/shades intuitive and quick enough in a few clicks via a hue/saturation/lightness curve editing interface that you won't want to rely on autogeneration. There's also a live mockup showing how your palette looks on a UI design that checks pairings pass contrast requirements, to guide you as you tweak your colors and to teach you the WCAG rules.

You can then export your palette to regular CSS variables, Tailwind, Figma or Adobe for use in your designs.

Really open to any feedback on features that would be useful! I think the only way I can make it simpler to use is to make it more opinionated about how your palette should be designed so interested in any thoughts about that too.

https://euzoia.substack.com The concept: https://euzoia.org

Tried to do this as low tech as possible, so website is just an off the shelf notion wrapper

You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.

It works best if you follow a good amount of artists. Optionally you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists you follow or you've created - if you don't follow much or any artists, then you should enable that in order for the service to be useful.

https://riffradar.org/

We are experimenting with Keybase key holders as CAs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576590

And also .gov email holders:

https://blog.certisfy.com/2025/12/using-gov-email-addresses-...

It's all self-service and requires no sign-up or download of anything, the app (https://certisfy.com/app) is an in-browser app and all the cryptography happens in the browser.

https://minfx.ai/

    MetalLB - https://metallb.io/ load balancer

    Traefik - https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/getting-started/quick-start-with-kubernetes/ ingress

    Local Path - https://docs.apps.rancher.io/reference-guides/local-path-provisioner storage

First game is https://geocentric.top where users can sculpt a planet collaboratively and place trees or houses (for now very limited). I plan on making it an idle sim where players will be able to interact by dropping some food/events for the creatures on it to evolve through time.

Second, a remote logger/metrics/user management tool where once can track all their logs, live metrics, uptimes, identify users, etc. I hope to have a v1 during this first quarter and I'm currently my first user as I have it hosted at https://app.getboringmetrics.com to centralize all my side projects into a single platform.

I wrote the firmware in Arduino, which was a great learning experience because I typically work with CircuitPython or Go, where I'm less constrained.

Used ai to create my own mind mapping tool for private use.

I also created a private cursor-like / loveable-like tool that I can use for my own vibe code prototyping on the go with my phone.

https://desktop.with.audio

Holidays nuked all the hot-cached context in my head. I spent a few days just spinning wheels until it repopulated. But the basic idea works now!

Much testing and benchmarking work remains to make sure it's not going to lose data, and that it won't denial-of-service itself (because object-map -> facts fan-out is big).

Also a second giant blog post is due (following the one discussed above). Lots of notes have accumulated.

It will be fun even if the concept ultimately crashes and burns to the ground :)

In which case, there's always datomic and xtdb :D

  (def repl-facts
    [{:alt.site.evalapply/meta
      {:description "Root namespace for a named site."}}
     {:alt.site.evalapply/features
      {:paid #{:alt.site-feature/feat-1
               :alt.site-feature/feat-2
               :alt.site-feature/feat-3}
       :trial #{:alt.site-feature/feat-4}
       :complimentary #{}
       :available #{}}}
     {:alt.site.evalapply/users
      {:authorised #{:alt.user.evalapply/user-1
                     :alt.user.evalapply/user-2
                     :alt.user.evalapply/user-3}
       :unauthorized #{:alt.root.*}}
      :alt.user.evalapply/user-1 {:name {:first "Wiley"
                                         :last "Coyote"}
                                  :roles #{:alt.role.evalapply/owner}}
      :alt.role.evalapply/owner {:rw #{:alt.user.evalapply/*}
                                 :ro #{}}}])

  (assert-facts! (#'user/system-state)
                 ::app
                 :alt.root/user-1
                 (uuid/v7)
                 repl-facts)

  (redact-facts! (#'user/system-state)
                 ::app
                 :alt.root/user-1
                 (uuid/v7)
                 (subvec repl-facts 2))

  (read-now! (#'user/system-state)
             ::app)

Top of my ideas now: add "ask your LLM" buttons to my email submission form that opens ChatGPT/Perp/Claude and auto-fills a query asking it why you should be friends with me.

Sample links (I hope it says nice things about me!):

Claude: https://claude.ai/new?q=Do+deep+research+on+a+person%2C+dvsj....

ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/?q=Do+deep+research+on+a+person%2C+d....

Also working on a PRM. My website is https://dvsj.in - open to any feedback!