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Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
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A September 2026 Hacker News discussion highlights experimental projects automating frontend performance tuning and personalised children’s storytelling apps.
The thread offers a snapshot of how individual engineers are applying AI and web standards to niche problems without waiting for corporate roadmaps. It also shows the practical limits of these approaches when the underlying tools or standards are unstable or deprecated.
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One engineer used Fable credits to run AI-driven research loops on GitHub repos, distilling common frontend optimisations into an automated tool.
Another built a Latin audiobook platform relying on in-browser XSLT, a feature slated for removal across browsers.
A third is developing a children’s storytelling app that dynamically incorporates a child’s personal life and choices into narratives.
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