velyan
Ask HN: How is the personal assistant you're building different?
Ask HN: Founders under load: what system keeps you from not dropping the ball?
I’m mapping real founder hacks that protect focus on highest-leverage work.Looking for concrete, copyable details: • Capture: How do you grab every commitment in-flow (keyboard macros, Raycast/Alfred, email rules)? • Triage → Focus: Your scoring/heuristic (e.g., unblock_others > revenue_this_week > existential). • Follow-ups: How do you guarantee chase-backs (SLA rules, auto-nudges,...
Ask HN: Are you still exporting PDFs and copy‑pasting between your tools?
I see this in my own workflow all the time: • Exporting a Notion page to Google Docs/Word because reviewers insist on .docx, then re‑attaching a PDF for email. • Copy‑pasting decisions from Slack into Jira/Asana or summarising chat threads into Notion so context isn’t lost. • Manually downloading receipts from emails and entering them into a spreadsheet at month‑end. • Digging through...
Show HN: Collate – Offline AI PDF reader and chat for Mac (private, on-device)
I built Collate, a free Mac app that summarizes and chats with PDFs entirely on your device. No uploads, no rate limits, just open a file and ask questions. It highlights the exact passages it used and shows citations, so you can verify answers quickly.Why: I wanted AI that feels like a normal app—fast, private, and not tethered to a cloud account—especially for long papers and reports.How it...
Re:Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
on Sunday July 06, 2025 @01:32AM (#44478099)
That’s why I’m working on https://collate.one - offline AI workspace
Show HN: Collate – Offline PDF Summarizer Using Llama 3.2
Hi HN!I’m excited to share Collate, a macOS app I built that lets you chat with PDFs, generate summaries, and read documents—all offline. It runs entirely on-device using Llama 3.2 quantized models, ensuring privacy without compromising on capability.Features: • Ask Questions: Interact with PDFs to extract key insights or answers without manual searching.• Summarize: Generate concise summaries...
Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when reading scientific papers?
Re:Ask HN: How do you sift through new research?
on Saturday April 27, 2024 @08:37AM (#40179481)
What the newsletter app does: it groups materials in up to 5 topics and generates an article for each topic based on the resources you've provided
Re:Ask HN: How do you sift through new research?
on Saturday April 27, 2024 @08:16AM (#40179374)
Yup, so you'd like to:
1. Given your resources, be able to the filter out the sections that are relevant to your topic of interest 2. Find resources that related to a topic
In order of severity pain points, is this correct? What is the goal of your research?
Re:Ask HN: How do you sift through new research?
on Saturday April 27, 2024 @01:49AM (#40177605)
Hey I am curious what's your current process? And would you like to input and output?
I am actually building something targeting content overwhelm and automating the curation process.
You can join the whitelist here: https://collate.one/preview
If you're a MacOS user I can give you free access to pilot version to try?
Also if you wanna get daily summaries of the papers you have you can also try this small app I built: https://collate.one/newsletter
Keen to know more about your problem...
Re:Writing a WASM Runtime in Rust
on Saturday April 27, 2024 @12:20AM (#40177198)
Cool! What problem are you solving with it?
Is there a CoreML model for Apple's OpenELM
Re:Show HN: Transform your read-later content into a bite-sized newsle...
on Thursday April 25, 2024 @08:31AM (#40156697)
Awesome!
Show HN: Transform your read-later content into a bite-sized newsletter
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:48PM (#39888365)
Curious what resources / apps you're using for learning. I'm building a tool that helps with self-directed learning. Would you be keen to jump on a 15 mins call and help shape the product? https://calendly.com/vel-yan/15min
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:45PM (#39888343)
I'm building a tool that helps with self-directed learning. Would you be keen to jump on a 15 mins call with me and help shape the product? https://calendly.com/vel-yan/15min
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:36PM (#39888264)
What project do you wanna do? What resources are you learning from?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:34PM (#39888248)
Would be very keen to know more about your learning experience and ideas to make it better. Would you be open to jump on a 15 mins call with me?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:33PM (#39888241)
I'm actually building a tool in this space. Would you be open to jump on a 15 mins call with me and help shape the product? https://calendly.com/vel-yan/15min
Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
Curious what other people are learning these days
Re:Ask HN: What is one article or resource that has been valuable to you?
on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:05AM (#39847964)
Or what are some resources you would recommend? Any topic
Ask HN: Favourite apps / platforms for micro learning?
Why are they your favourite?
Ask HN: What is one article or resource that has been valuable to you?
Ask HN: Learning resources for Graph Theory?
What learning resources would you recommend for graph theory and why ate they good? I have a CS degree, but need a deeper dive and examples of practical applications. Have you recently read articles, books, watched youtube videos. If you have a list of resources you have personally gone through that would be ideal! Thanks
Ask HN: Which online learning platforms do you find most useful?
Re:Ask HN: Do you email yourself content? Why?
on Saturday March 02, 2024 @03:25AM (#39571014)
Oh cool so essentially a way to personalize how you consume content?
Is there anything your current setup is lacking?
Ask HN: Do you email yourself content? Why?
What do you do with it if so?
Show HN: Transform your everyday learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9T7e75xgAI
Feeling overwhelmed by endless resources?Not sure where to start and how to consume it all given your limited time? Wish you could streamline your learning?Ever clicked on a headline and read an article only to find out it's not what you're looking for? Do you wish you could take notes in the same place as you read?Did you ever wish you could pause a video and ask a question?Sign up for...
Re:Ask HN: How do you learn and research every day?
on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @02:51AM (#39535218)
Interesting! I didn’t know about this tool. What do you think helps you the most - making a card or revisiting or both?
Is there anything that this tool is lacking atm?