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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)
on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:46PM (#46939808)
Creating my own photo curation tool inspired by Adobe Lightroom - https://github.com/sheshbabu/riffle
Re:Self-hosting is being enshittified
on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:42PM (#46440034)
> I have been hosting all my services on a single Intel Nuc from 10 years ago and a RPI5 as backup for critical services like DNS.
Yes, fully agree with this and I've a similar setup. I even started with using wsl on the default windows install hoping to switch later to linux, but didn't have much need for this. Only gripe is tailscale seems to be flaky (rare) in windows.
Better to start with something small and cheap, see if it solves your needs and then upgrade if needs. Don't overcomplicate things based on what others do.
Ask HN: What's the best way to extract text from information dense pdfs?
Examples for PDFs: Pitch Decks, Annual Reports etc which have text, charts, tables etc.
Re:Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems
on Saturday August 16, 2025 @01:15AM (#44920392)
I found this post very helpful to getting started with agentic systems, what other posts do others recommend?
Re:Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents i...
on Thursday July 31, 2025 @08:28AM (#44744952)
I see, that's a good way to think about it
Re:Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents i...
on Thursday July 31, 2025 @06:02AM (#44744073)
In the research workflow example, what if the first set of search queries don’t return good results. If the LLM tool loop decides to refine the queries, would this be “agency”?
Re:Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents i...
on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @10:16PM (#44741719)
Do you have a writeup on the different interpretations of "AI Agent"?
Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now
on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @08:28PM (#44741115)
Thanks!
I use this package for markdown: https://github.com/gonzalezreal/swift-markdown-ui
Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now
on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @08:01PM (#44740965)
[Shameless Plug]
I built my own Ollama macOS app written in SwiftUI: https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital
Launches fast and weighs less than 2MB in size!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
on Sunday July 27, 2025 @08:18PM (#44705952)
I'm working on Zen Notes - a minimal, distraction-free notes app that prioritizes ownership and longevity.
The core philosophy is: your notes should be yours forever, that also includes the software stack it's built on. Everything is stored locally in SQLite with standard Markdown, so no vendor lock-in or proprietary formats. The interface is very minimal without flashy colors or icons, so you can focus on your thoughts.
Key features: instant full-text search using BM25, flexible tag organization instead of rigid folders, rich Markdown support with formatting toolbar, and custom "Focus Modes" for different contexts. It's a PWA that works offline (read-only).
The tech stack prioritizes minimal dependencies - no NPM (self-hosted Preact instead of React), Golang for rich standard library, etc. The whole app can be run from a single binary, so no messy installation requirements. Docker is also available.
I tried to design this from scratch, learning about typography, colors, spacing etc. It turned out better than I expected!
I've switched to this as my main notes app and I'm happy with it.
Landing Page: https://www.sheshbabu.com/zen/
Demo: https://zendemo.fly.dev
Re:Don't Animate Height
on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @08:35PM (#44654545)
CSS animations can sometimes cause weird performance issues or even crashes. 10 years back, animating box-shadow caused browsers to crash for our some of users by consuming a lot of memory: https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/my-binary-search-debugging-s...
Re:Building Accurate Address Matching Systems
on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @08:25AM (#44433209)
Robin's blog is a gold mine for anyone working on entity resolution, highly recommend reading other posts as well!
Re:Show HN: Distraction-Free Note Taking
on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:02AM (#44423401)
Sorry, currently only supports standard markdown
Show HN: Distraction-Free Note Taking
Re:I deleted my second brain
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @11:31AM (#44405399)
> am experimenting with using LLMs (both Cursor and Claude Code) to help me decide where stuff should go.
Can you elaborate on this?
Show HN: Zen Notes – Distraction free notes app
Hello everyone,I've been building a distraction free notes app called Zen for the past few months.* It's built using Go and uses SQLite database for storage* It's fast and uses less memory (~20MB) and CPU resources* Supports standard Markdown with tables, code, etc* It's built using as few dependencies as possible, so less bitrot long term* Has search with BM25 ranking* Designed thoughtfully...
Re:Zoho halts $700M semiconductor plan
on Friday May 02, 2025 @11:30AM (#43871112)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFB_Home_Appliances
TIL IFB is an Indian company
Re:How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowl...
on Sunday April 27, 2025 @12:44PM (#43813205)
Any idea which LLM they're using?
Re:Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars
on Sunday February 02, 2025 @04:42AM (#42907525)
This is amazing! Is there a way to make the car recharge at dock like robo vacuums?
Re:Mistral Small 3
on Thursday January 30, 2025 @11:24AM (#42879285)
What local models are you currently using and what issues are you facing?
Visualization of overlap in Malaysia's 3 main calendars (Hijrah, Chinese, Hindu)
Re:Show HN: Organize Your Blood Tests into a Beautiful Health Dashboard
on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @11:11AM (#42502822)
Thanks, sounds interesting!
Re:Show HN: Organize Your Blood Tests into a Beautiful Health Dashboard
on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @02:58AM (#42500398)
This is nice!
How do you extract the data from pdf or images? How do you reduce inaccuracies in this process?
Curious, has anyone tried to use React without bundler like webpack, esbuild etc?
Re:Bringing K/V context quantisation to Ollama
on Thursday December 05, 2024 @06:44AM (#42327212)
Thanks for the kind words :)
Re:Bringing K/V context quantisation to Ollama
on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:26AM (#42325523)
If you’re using a Mac, I’ve built a lightweight native app - https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital
Implementing React-like Composition using Go's HTML/template
System Design for Entity Resolution
Re:SQLite: Outlandish Recursive Query Examples
on Sunday November 24, 2024 @07:38PM (#42232013)
Not SQLite, but recently used Postgres Recursive CTEs for graph retrieval - https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/graph-retrieval-using-postgr...