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Show HN: macOS PDF Organizer Using Apple Intelligence

abu_ameena — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:26:37 +0000

Hey! I accumulate a lot of PDFs that I want to read, but never get back to them, and have no way of organizing them, so I built Elephant Folio.

Elephant Folio will organize your PDFs, suggest better filenames, index them and tag them; all on-device. Additionally, it features a Safari extension, so you can import PDFs you find from HN straight into Elephant Folio's library, or anywhere else you get your PDFs.

Let me know what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652362

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New comment by abu_ameena in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

abu_ameena — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:42:59 +0000

Yes, but you don’t always want the power/expense of these models for the task at hand. A hammer is good enough to push a nail inside a wall. Save the nail gun for when you are building a house.

New comment by abu_ameena in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

abu_ameena — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:01:27 +0000

I see it as a long-term tradeoff on user freedom. You pay upfront for a capable hardware, you get your services running locally (you don’t pay subscriptions). Or you buy cheap hardware, you still need the same services “running in some cloud” for $X monthly. X goes up depending on the corporate bottom-line

New comment by abu_ameena in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

abu_ameena — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:01:59 +0000

On-device models are the future. Users prefer them. No privacy issues. No dealing with connectivity, tokens, or changes to vendors implementations. I have an app using Foundation Model, and it works great. I only wish I could backport it to pre macOS 26 versions.

New comment by abu_ameena in "Which jobs are most vulnerable to AI?"

abu_ameena — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:55:37 +0000

If that’s the dystopia we would live in, I’d imagine an alternate healthcare/legal system would emerge. Also, personally I’m far more forgiving of the human-error than that of the machine

New comment by abu_ameena in "Which jobs are most vulnerable to AI?"

abu_ameena — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:20:09 +0000

If we are talking about jobs (quantity) maybe to some extent. But if want to be honest, it’s qualitative (human-judgment) question. And even if a job seems totally AI-ready on paper, it might have invisible side effects.

(Thought experiment: do I want an AI robot to perform a surgery on me, if it only has 2% chance of hallucinating? My answer is no, bring the surgeon)

New comment by abu_ameena in "Which jobs are most vulnerable to AI?"

abu_ameena — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:54:43 +0000

Any job where human-judgment is not required and there’s clear rules on the tasks required.