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New comment by FailMore in "Making Claude a Chemist"

FailMore — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:27:06 +0000

I think this is a very interesting concept/question. I feel like programming is more about shapes than anything else… but they seem to have mastered that fairly easily… but I totally get your point!

New comment by FailMore in "Claude Fable 5"

FailMore — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:15:03 +0000

What harness do you use Gemini in?

New comment by FailMore in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

FailMore — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:48:21 +0000

I built https://sdocs.dev and use it daily. It’s a CLI-driven markdown reader which (privately) renders Markdown in the browser.

When you install the CLI, it (with your permission) asks to update your base agent prompt files (e.g. `~/.codex/AGENTS.md`, or `~/.Claude/CLAUDE.md`) with info about how to use the tool.

This means all your agent chats know about SDocs, and it’s nearly always your agent which invokes the tool: “Hey Claude, sdoc me a list of all my open MRs”, etc.

I did a ShowHN about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633

New comment by FailMore in "Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development"

FailMore — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:05:42 +0000

Interesting product. I know others building in this space. How are things going with existing customers? And how are you measuring deltas vs standard agentic processes? Are you using RAG under the hood?

New comment by FailMore in "Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs"

FailMore — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:52:56 +0000

Also commenting to say I really enjoyed it.

New comment by FailMore in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

FailMore — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:35:39 +0000

I’m trying to build SmallDocs, a new markdown first browser based document format (mainly for ease of use by agents): https://sdocs.dev

More info on a ShowHN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633

New comment by FailMore in "Pandoc Templates"

FailMore — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:04:45 +0000

I’ve been building something somewhat adjacent to this. It’s https://sdocs.dev. It’s as 100% private browser based Markdown renderer

New comment by FailMore in "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era"

FailMore — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:57:13 +0000

It's nice to see people building things, but honestly I found the demo video a bit disappointing. A bit too slow, a bit too choppy, a bit hand wavy. It didn't make me grasp why I needed this in my life.

New comment by FailMore in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

FailMore — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:28:54 +0000

I like it. I am building something very agent-use focused (https://sdocs.dev) and I’ve been thinking of introducing a /agent-evaluation page, which an agent can curl to then discuss with their user if SmallDocs is right for them. I really like the agent action to email flow. I’m introducing user accounts + subscriptions soon and think I’ll use that.

New comment by FailMore in "Ask HN: How do word docs, slides, excel, and PDFs generate value?"

FailMore — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:25:22 +0000

Thanks very much. I found that a very thoughtful reply

New comment by FailMore in "The interface is no Longer the product"

FailMore — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:35:49 +0000

This is exactly my view and exactly what I’m building at https://sdocs.dev.

It’s Word if it were for cli based agents. It’s cli-first, markdown first, and you rarely if ever create the docs. Instead you tell your agent, “research X and give it to me in a sdoc”, or “sdoc this bug report so I can share it with Andy”.

It was discussed on a Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633

Ask HN: How do word docs, slides, excel, and PDFs generate value?

FailMore — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:29:34 +0000

This is a bit vague, but as an engineer, it’s possible to walk past the other functions in an office and see people creating word docs, presentations, etc. and be a bit shocked that creating static artifacts is valuable enough to drive employment. I’m wondering if anyone has any ideas on where the value lies in this work. I know this is all very industry specific, so if you want to share you can talk from your own perspective. Vague and wild answers accepted too. I’m looking to have a wide ranging discussion about this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195550

Points: 6

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New comment by FailMore in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

FailMore — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:00:19 +0000

1) Very nice implementation 2) Very nice domain! Did you always own "files.md"? 3) Re storing things on your server, what is the security layer around that?

I have been building a slightly different solution to the same problem. So far I’m pretty happy with the results and I have enough returning users that I think others are too (https://sdocs.dev/analytics).

I’ve built SmallDocs (https://sdocs.dev; Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633).

SDocs is cli (`sdoc file.md`) -> instantly rendered Markdown file in the browser

When you install the cli it gives you the option to add a note in your base agent file (`~/.claude/CLAUDE.md`, etc.). This means every agent chat knows about SDocs and you can say “sdoc me the plan when you’re done with it” and the file will pop open instead of you having to find that terminal session to know it’s done.

Going browser first means you’re not required to install anything to get a great experience.

Despite being in the browser, the content of SDocs rendered Markdown files remain entirely local to you. SDoc urls contain your markdown document's content in compressed base64 in the url fragment (the bit after the `#`):

https://sdocs.dev/#md=GzcFAMT...(this is the contents of your document)...

The url fragment is never sent to the server (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/F...: "The fragment is not sent to the server when the URI is requested; it is processed by the client").

The sdocs.dev webapp is purely a client side decoding and rendering engine for the content stored in the url fragment.

This also means you can share your .md files privately by sharing the url.

I've enjoyed exploiting the HTML rendering side of things which is possible by displaying Markdown in a browser. I’ve added tagged code blocks that the agent is given documentation on how to use. Eg ```chart or ```mermaid (for mermaid diagrams). These then become interactive elements on the page (mermaid is best example of this currently). See live renderings of these options here - charts gallery: https://sdocs.dev/s/yO3WbxFf#k=arcDBnizla5n437VFAeiQcwlu8kh_..., diagrams gallery: https://sdocs.dev/s/B_Ux11DV#k=KsvheEkiBFai6acnoIJnrOdfVRS5u...

New comment by FailMore in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

FailMore — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:25:42 +0000

I've been experimenting with a fairly vibecoded Office 365..., but rooted in the world of vibe (an advanced Markdown reader which can do complex things like render charts and mermaid diagrams, see: https://sdocs.dev, https://sdocs.dev/#sec=charts, https://sdocs.dev/#sec=diagrams). Slides coming soon too... But this is very much a subsection of the full Office suite.

(Also discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633)

After extensive work with agents, the non-technical sentence is the shape I see

FailMore — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:51:34 +0000

Article URL: https://sdocs.dev/s/qtIcZCIL#k=sHoAJ4Syfkv25404v5a3Ft4gJBPZwj7aAhquWmdzDPM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157211

Points: 3

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After extensive work with agents, the non-technical sentence is the shape I see

FailMore — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:27:08 +0000

Article URL: https://sdocs.dev/s/qtIcZCIL#k=sHoAJ4Syfkv25404v5a3Ft4gJBPZwj7aAhquWmdzDPM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112288

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by FailMore in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

FailMore — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:29:50 +0000

I’ve built SmallDocs (https://sdocs.dev; Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633; live usage stats: https://sdocs.dev/analytics).

SDocs is cli (`sdoc file.md`) -> instantly rendered Markdown file in the browser

Going browser first means you’re not required to install anything to get a great experience.

https://sdocs.dev/#md=GzcFAMT...(this is the contents of your document)...

The sdocs.dev webapp is purely a client side decoding and rendering engine for the content stored in the url fragment.

This also means you can share your .md files privately by sharing the url.

Show HN: (Update) Mermaid Diagrams in SmallDocs

FailMore — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:20:31 +0000

Article URL: https://sdocs.dev/s/WGRRhlhz#k=9KZpXs9Mbvz3UVtve0oG3wF3HRohbBwET1oGDKR9LLA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085230

Points: 1

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New comment by FailMore in "We see something that works, and then we understand it"

FailMore — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:30:57 +0000

I liked the article and the term thinkism (which I hadn’t heard before). I think education should be radically changed to be about doism instead. I think it’s likely we have more engaged kids learning more valuable life skills.

New comment by FailMore in "The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs"

FailMore — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:51:17 +0000

SmallDocs person here, IMO the location of Markdown files and the reading of them are separate things. SmallDocs is just about reading not about storing. Eg if you are working in ~/code/my_project, and have a README.md, you (or your agent) can `sdoc README.md`. This opens up the file for reading (in the browser, but 100% privately). It doesn’t change the stored location of the Markdown file.

Is that what you were getting at or something else?