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What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?

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

A monthly Ask HN thread inviting Hacker News users to share the projects they are working on and topics they are curious about in November 2026.

What HN thinks

Half the thread got laid off, the other half is herding Claude agents, and somebody is rewriting LaTeX in Zig for fun.

Solo side projects and indie products
Most posts are personal products: CRMs, readers, note apps, puzzle books, games. Many of their makers say marketing is the hard part.
Tooling for wrangling AI agents
Several builders are making workspaces, coordination layers and mobile UIs to steer many coding agents in parallel. Others are leaning on LLMs to do hardware reverse engineering.
Custom software carries maintenance risk
Some commenters warned that bespoke systems for family or small businesses create ongoing maintenance burdens. They argued that off-the-shelf tools like Shopify are often the safer choice.

Consensus: Commenters are broadly supportive and curious about each other's projects. There is no real consensus beyond some caution about maintaining bespoke software.

Recommended in the comments

Shopify (service): Suggested as a cheaper, maintained alternative to custom-built store systems.
Perfetto (tool): A commenter found it very helpful while optimizing an image processing pipeline.
Vivosun LED grow light (product): Suggested as a cheap, bright alternative to expensive SAD lamps.
Spectral and Algebraic Graph Theory ↗ (book): Recommended as background reading for graph neural network work.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 4 days ago.

Points: 267
Comments: 918
Best rank: #2
Posted: 2026-11-08 by david927
Category: Startups & business

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