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Show HN: Spin up a page for your group

Posted by niraj-agarwal on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:41PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.ourpage.social/

Wanted something between group chat and Facebook group page. Spun up this low-fi app with private threads and a public page for groups. Baked in a bunch of widgets for common group activities. Added email integration and setting up then WhatsApp bridge. Check out the sample pages and do let me know what you think.

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Show HN: Calm Web – Print magazine style reader

Posted by niraj-agarwal on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:00PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://calmweb.app

Wanted to have a better reading experience. Curated feeds to avoid bumping into paywalls. Used: https://github.com/chenglou/pretext and: https://github.com/lyallcooper/justif for layout and justification with 2-column pages. Simplified navigation with shortcuts (in Settings) to move through things more quickly. Mainly focused on desktop experience.

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Re:.name Termination on Thursday September 03, 2026 @07:04PM (#49558340)
22,000 people affected. Link up and lawyer up is right. To have identity and existence taken away is a no go.
Re:Paywall-free News Aggregator on Sunday July 26, 2026 @11:34PM (#49064924)
Aggregated links to paywall-free news articles because reading news was getting frustrating.

Uses filter list of known paywall sites. Checks page for isAccessibleForFree. Looks for paywall vendor script signatures

Fetches hourly on my Macbook using RSS, HN Algolia API, Guardian API. Dedupes with nomic on Ollama.

JSON edition is here: https://freepress.today/api/edition.json Astro front-end.

Use justif and pretext for better typesetting and masonry columns

https://github.com/lyallcooper/justif https://github.com/chenglou/pretext

About 6 hours on Claude Code in two sessions.

Re:The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] on Sunday July 26, 2026 @10:50PM (#49064679)
"The mere fact that they bring satisfaction to an individual soul bent upon its own purification and elevation is all the justification that they need."
Re:Firewood Splitting Simulator on Sunday June 14, 2026 @03:20PM (#48531533)
Got the chop wood, now need the draw water and then we will be good
Re:Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram v... on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @08:53PM (#48216405)
Had Claude test it out on 3 videos. Worked at 5-8x realtime. The beauty of it is that it works on all videos, not just the one with transcripts. Combine it with YouTube search and LLM takeaways from transcripts, and you have super-efficient content consumption. There are SaaS products that charge 1 cent per video for those with transcripts. There is a viable product in here somewhere, methinks.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Sunday May 10, 2026 @11:38PM (#48090823)
Made a stocks dashboard using percentile ranks and "lens" for discovering stocks using 2D plots with roughly orthogonal compound metrics.

https://www.stocksdashboards.com

Going to get back into self-managed IRA...this time better-informed :-)

Re:Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:24PM (#47043352)
https://www.seangoedecke.com/generate-skills-afterwards/ - the response
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:13PM (#43529199)
Useful and simple. The pattern could be applied to any templatized document we need to generate.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Sunday March 30, 2025 @06:10PM (#43528178)
KNOWRA - A tool to learn about a topic quickly https://knowra.ai Looks at multiple sources and links expand in place.
Re:Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022) on Saturday November 02, 2024 @06:42PM (#42029757)
Predicting how things evolve in space-time is a fundamental need. Finite element methods deserve the glory of a place at the top of the HN list. I opted for "orthogonal collocation" as the method of choice for my model back in the day because it was faster and more fitting to the problem at hand. A couple of my fellow researchers did use FEM. It was all the rage in the 90s for sure.