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Ask HN: What are you building on the side in 2026?

4•italicmew•12h ago
Curious what people are building this year.

What side projects are you working on in 2026? Could be software, hardware, research, learning projects, businesses, or just experiments.

Links welcome.

Comments

vunderba•11h ago
I’ve been putting together a rather silly slide-puzzle game for MENSA-level players: things like arranging the tiles by chemical element name according to atomic number, arranging countries by surface area, etc.

It’s absurd and will probably appeal only to descendants of Ken Jennings. Feedback welcome.

https://slide-puzzles.specr.net

Where's the $100k iPhone?

https://boydkane.com/essays/100k-iphone
1•zdw•2m ago•0 comments

MIT Non-AI License

1•dumindunuwan•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Understand the Picture of the Day

https://picture.learntosolveit.com
1•orsenthil•3m ago•0 comments

Haraltd – A cross-platform Bluetooth daemon with a JSON-based RPC

https://github.com/bluetuith-org/haraltd
1•darkhz•4m ago•0 comments

The Stick in the Stream

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-stick-in-the-stream/
1•zdw•6m ago•0 comments

MAKERphone 2: first modular DIY phone, no soldering

https://circuitmess.com/products/makerphone-2-0
1•nateb2022•6m ago•0 comments

Sodium-ion battery cells near lithium-ion cost parity, set to get cheaper

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/01/09/sodium-ion-battery-cells-already-near-lithium-ion-cost-parity...
1•toomuchtodo•6m ago•1 comments

OpenAI to Buy Pinterest? Strategic Analysis

https://nekuda.substack.com/p/openai-to-buy-pinterest-heres-what
1•gmays•8m ago•0 comments

Vajra BM25 is a fast BM25 implementation in Python

https://twitter.com/aiexplorations/status/2009846407881212136
1•aiexplorations•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A website to save moments that remind you of someone

https://thisremindedme.com/
1•Winggo•12m ago•0 comments

Google and chatbot startup Character move to settle teen suicide lawsuits

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/07/google-character-settle-lawsuits-suicide/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•14m ago•0 comments

Agent skills: what can go wrong?

https://github.com/pors/skill-audit
1•pors•14m ago•0 comments

You probably don't need Oh My Zsh

https://rushter.com/blog/zsh-shell/
5•fla•15m ago•0 comments

Fix Your Robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google

https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/37/wa/jz/s1/
2•qingcharles•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: VoiceBrainDump – voice-first idea capture, single HTML file, offline

https://voicebraindump.app/
1•digi_wares•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Focus timer that turns hours into assets

https://seton.run/
1•keplerjst•24m ago•0 comments

Kazakhstan Launches First Institute of Transport Sciences and Technologies

https://qazinform.com/news/kazakhstan-launches-first-institute-of-transport-sciences-and-technolo...
1•Bolat14•28m ago•0 comments

AI Flatters with Fidelity

https://lucent.substack.com/p/ai-flatters-with-fidelity
2•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

Lidify: Self-hosted, on-demand audio streaming platform like Spotify

https://github.com/Chevron7Locked/lidify
1•thunderbong•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rank up your local business on Google Maps

https://www.mapclimb.com/
3•bagusfarisa•32m ago•0 comments

The world has too much oil – Will companies want Venezuela's?

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5668491/venezuela-oil-global-markets
4•geox•38m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk's Grok Has Friends in High Places: US Patent Office chief AI officer

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/grok-hayes-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes
1•wahnfrieden•40m ago•0 comments

Checks and Balances Are Dead

https://rall.com/2026/01/08/checks-and-balances-are-dead
6•SanjayMehta•40m ago•0 comments

M2.1: Multilingual and Multi-Task Coding with Strong Generalization

https://www.minimaxi.com/news/m21-multilingual-and-multi-task-coding-with-strong-general
1•gmays•42m ago•0 comments

Character.ai and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides

https://www.ft.com/content/ac518567-d901-4fae-86a3-eab54b12a81d
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•52m ago•0 comments

Demystifying Evals for AI Agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents
1•vinhnx•53m ago•0 comments

Best Practices for Coding with Agents

https://cursor.com/blog/agent-best-practices
1•vinhnx•53m ago•1 comments

Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in MI

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/microsoft-behind-controversial-data-center-in-michigan-township.html
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•55m ago•0 comments

A man powers his home for 8 years using 1,000 recycled laptop batteries

https://scienceclock.com/a-man-powers-his-home-for-8-years-using-1000-recycled-laptop-batteries/
3•ashishgupta2209•57m ago•1 comments

OLED Not for Me

https://nuxx.net/blog/2026/01/09/oled-not-for-me/
12•c0nsumer•58m ago•12 comments