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

kept by eddie may 22

In the May 2026 Ask HN thread, dozens of developers describe their current projects, including an AI-driven tabletop simulator, a Kagi alternative, and a FreeBSD release.

Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
Nanolang is a minimal experimental language with prefix notation and compile-time tests, designed to reduce coding errors made by LLMs.
also on FreeBSD, #open-source, #developer-tools
What are you doing this weekend?
A developer recounts returning to FreeBSD for a home NAS after years on Linux, praising its simplicity for servers but sticking with Arch for desktops.
also on FreeBSD, #open-source, #developer-tools
Lore | Next-Generation Open Source Version Control - Lore
Epic Games maintains Lore, an open-source version control system designed for scalable data and teams working on mixed code and binary assets.
also on #game-development, #open-source, #developer-tools
ADA Q&A: Is This Seat Taken? - Discover - Apple Developer
Poti Poti Studio's puzzle game Is This Seat Taken? blends logic puzzles with whimsical scenarios, focusing on assigning characters to preferred seats based on their quirks across buses, restaurants, and theaters.
also on #game-development
datalab-to/surya-ocr-2
Surya OCR 2 is a 650M-parameter vision-language model achieving 83.3% on olmOCR-bench and 87.2% on a 91-language benchmark, offering layout analysis, table recognition, and OCR in a single model.
also on vLLM, #open-source, #ai, #developer-tools