Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
- ID
- 12610
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 10 Aug 2026, 1:23 AM
- Fetched
- 12 Aug 2026, 2:44 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233423
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 7.0
- Created
- 12 Aug 2026, 3:51 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_ml_learnersai_agent_users
What happened
A Hacker News thread highlights several builder projects, including an agentic connectivity platform mapping OpenAPI to MCP, and a project fine-tuning Whisper for Kikuyu (~8M speakers) using ~217 hours of transcribed audio. Another builder created a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator where AI agents use MCP to generate parametric procedures in YAML.
Why it matters
The Whisper fine-tuning approach for Kikuyu is directly applicable to Malaysian low-resource languages; the ~217h dataset yielding ~26% WER sets a realistic baseline for local ASR projects. The MCP-based carpentry simulator demonstrates how agents can interact with domain-specific tools via YAML, offering a blueprint for building custom agent tools.
Discussion angle
How the MCP architecture used in the carpentry simulator could be adapted for local Malaysian trades or manufacturing, and whether the Whisper fine-tuning method for Kikuyu is viable for Malay dialects.