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Show HN: NotebookLM Calibre Plugin

https://github.com/divyenduz/notebooklm-calibre-plugin

I am not sure if this is useful for anyone else but I recently found myself converting a lot of books / magazines and content to NotebookLM Deep Dives, so, I wrote this quick plugin to do that in single click.I find this is a nice way to go through a lot of content (during commute etc.) and pick interesting stuff to read.Think of it as skimming a book and deciding to read it.

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Re:Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:43AM (#49208406)
Thanks for the comment, author here "losing the community aspect of it", this assumes that I only use LLM for that, and that's not true. I am involved in communities via both Discord servers (recommend the one from The Zone simulator) and local meetups too.

"lot of knowledge on the websites, freely available, for anyone who wants to read", of course, I read that a lot as I mentioned in parts of the blog post, I didn't want to out source "learning" and I did many things the hard way i.e. reading + understanding and continue to do so.

LLMs were mostly useful in two things: - I could make a copy of my apartment (it is much more accurate by now) and I can practice simulator and real life in the same place. This is why the creator of The Zone built it too. This without AI would have been a multi week project for me and with AI it was a 2-3 day on the side thing. - When debugging settings things up, I can give it access to read the real data from my devices, videos. No online reading has that context and can translate that into insights quick. It is more about speed than AI.

I also mentioned "what's learning anyways" at the bottom of the post, FPV flying is a good example because unlike say writing content or software or creating something the AI can't do it (it can fly drones with IMU, GPS but not tiny whoops) for you and can only assist you.

Would be curious about your blog post on the subject btw. Won't mind you sharing that.

Re:Show HN: Incus-Sandbox-SDK on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:22AM (#46597831)
A tinkering experiment written with AI

https://x.com/divyenduz/status/2010959045436260795

Testing the boundaries of what I can do with AI and how to prevent AI slop and produce meaningful things 100% hands off.

Is this meaningful? I don't know yet.

Re:Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013) on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:08PM (#40369620)
Is there a youtube channel or something that does deep dives into antique source code like this or windows XP?
Re:Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases on Thursday January 18, 2024 @03:32AM (#39039393)
Plug, wrote something along these lines. It is a FUSE file system and the storage is SQLite

https://github.com/divyenduz/zoid-fs

Re:Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service on Saturday December 23, 2023 @07:23AM (#38743713)
Oh nice, also check out https://github.com/divyenduz/trackfootball.app

It is like Strava for Football (gets data using Strava OAuth). Open source, but docs aren't simply there yet for host-ability!

Also, don't want to hijack your post, but some people might be interested in a football variant! Will defn try Endurain soon

Re: on Monday December 11, 2023 @05:33AM (#38599313)
Oh nice, I did something similar recently (https://github.com/divyenduz/zoid-zip), mine is much lighter/smaller than yours. Instead of following a standard fully, I just use Huffman coding to make stuff smaller!
Sounds like a good use case for TailScale funnel. Not sure if this is possible today but can work via that route.
Re:Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:43AM (#35829858)
I have done something similar with Raspberry Pi and Tailscale. Really happy with the setup. Almost 6 months in and works like a charm.

https://twitter.com/divyenduz/status/1597863894055518208

Re:Show HN: Backup Scheduler on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:06AM (#34197042)
Sure, added the docs here https://github.com/divyenduz/backup-scheduler#restore

Basically, you can just manually call the sync command with s3 bucket and local directory arguments in reverse or use aws s3 cp --recursive

Re:Show HN: Text editor with inline English-German dictionary on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:17AM (#33668511)
This is very nice, I wrote something very similar for telegram, I don't maintain it anymore, love to see tools like this

- https://github.com/divyenduz/languagelearners - https://languagelearners.vercel.app/

Re:Show HN: Football/Running Tracking, Sprint Detection on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:57AM (#26776679)
It will be hard to get this working on with professional teams as is, you see wearing a watch is not allowed in professional sports.

Besides, this is almost a solved problem in B2B, many many provides for professional teams

Re:Show HN: Football/Running Tracking, Sprint Detection on Sunday April 11, 2021 @04:05PM (#26772970)
Hey folks, created this project to track my Football/running activity.

No real football games to track yet because of the pandemic but I did track some running/kicking the ball sessions.

Here is how they look like - https://mylifefootball.com/activity/46 - https://mylifefootball.com/activity/4

Very very early days and it is something ready only for power users. Login with strava is required and the "social" aspects of this might even violate their API terms (so, If I pursue this further, I need to create my own apps collecting data)

How does this look like? Anyone else besides me interested in something like this.

I made this a while ago, the primary requirement was to build a static blog but without writing code/components and hence I used a WYSIWYG editor.

I would at some point use TinaCMS in place of this custom editor I slapped together.

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