Hacker News: ashish01

New comment by ashish01 in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

ashish01 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:27:41 +0000

> Browser not fully supported

> This editor relies on WebGPU for rendering, which currently works best in Chrome or other Chromium-based browsers. You may experience issues in your current browser.

(reminds of works in IE6)

New comment by ashish01 in "Microgpt"

ashish01 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:31:26 +0000

That is really beautiful literate program. Seeing it after a long time. Here is a opus generate version of this code - https://ashish01.github.io/microgpt.html

New comment by ashish01 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

ashish01 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:02:10 +0000

Still working on PocketWise (https://pocketwise.app), a simple double-entry accounting app. Just finished adding end-to-end encryption with a zero-trust server model. All encryption and decryption happens in the browser (using PRF), and the server only sees encrypted data.

New comment by ashish01 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

ashish01 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:18:38 +0000

I have an old Lenovo IdeaPad with fairly modest hardware, and I have both Fedora and Windows installed. About 90% of the time I use Fedora, and it works fine overall. The only thing that bothers me is that Firefox on Fedora feels noticeably more sluggish compared to Edge or Firefox on Windows. Maybe it’s just a perception issue, but I’d love to know what others are using as their web browser on Linux.

Show HN: Pocketwise – a privacy-first, double-entry finance tracker

ashish01 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:12:44 +0000

Working on pocketwise. Yet another personal finance tracker :)

Privacy update since my last post: all user data is encrypted on the server. Only the user can see their data in plain text. Even someone with direct server access cannot read it. This came directly from feedback on my previous post, financial data is deeply personal, and putting minutia of ones personal finance on a remote server feel off.

I started with double-entry accounting using hledger. It was always a great financial realization for me, but I would stop using it after a couple of weeks. So I started writing a web interface for my ledger file, with the intent to make it simple enough that I actually stick with it. Over time, this became Pocketwise.

Pocketwise does not need any bank credentials. Instead, you do the data entry yourself.

To make this easier, you can type (or say) natural-language descriptions of your expenses like “Chipotle $15 cash” or “Netflix 19.89 Apple Card”, and it stores them as proper double-entry records like:

  2025-11-11 Chipotle
    Expenses:Food & Dining                    $15.00
    Assets:Cash                               $-15.00

  2025-11-11 Netflix
    Expenses:Subscriptions                    $19.89
    Liabilities:Credit Card:Apple Card        $-19.89

There’s a 7-day free trial. If you try it, I’d love to hear your feedback.

Thanks for reading

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464907

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashish01 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

ashish01 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:52:31 +0000

Simple meal tracker to give some macros but mainly give a health rating on 1-10 scale. http://meal-tracker.fly.dev

Show HN: Meal Tracker – Weekend hack using LLM to get food macros from photos

ashish01 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:24:05 +0000

A tiny weekend project that lets you snap a meal photo and uses an LLM to estimate macros (with manual edits if needed)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247729

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashish01 in "Litestream VFS"

ashish01 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:27:41 +0000

I use Litestream for near real-time backups. Does not change how SQLite is used on the server, just a replacement for .backup

Show HN: PocketWise – a simple, natural-language double-entry finance tracker

ashish01 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:28:42 +0000

Working on pocket wise. Yet another personal finance tracker :)

I started with double entry accounting using hledger and it was always great financial realization but I would stop using it after a couple of weeks. So I started writing a web interface for my ledger file, with the intent to make it simple enough that I actually stick with it. This became pocket wise over time.

Pocketwise does not need need any bank credentials, instead you do the data entry.

But to make it easier you can type (or say) natural language descriptions of your expenses like - "Chipotle $15 cash" or "Netflix 19.89 Apple Card" and it will store them as double entries like

    2025-11-11 Chipotle
      Expenses:Food & Dining                    $15.00
      Assets:Cash                               $-15.00

    2025-11-11 Netflix
      Expenses:Subscriptions                    $19.89
      Liabilities:Credit Card:Apple Card        $-19.89

It has a 7 days free trail, if you decide to use it, I would love to hear your feedback. Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you. :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45888382

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by ashish01 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

ashish01 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:25:38 +0000

I am working on PocketWise (https://pocketwise.app) a lightweight personal finance tracking app. Goal is to make double entry accounting simple and approachable for everyday use. It’s my first project of this kind, so I’d really appreciate any feedback.

New comment by ashish01 in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN?"

ashish01 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:13:58 +0000

https://hn-reader.pages.dev/

Cleora: A Simple, Strong and Scalable Graph Embedding Scheme

ashish01 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:09:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/BaseModelAI/cleora

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44968945

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashish01 in "Show HN: HackerNewt - Breadth-first exploring HN client for iOS"

ashish01 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:40:44 +0000

I also prefer BFS expansion of comments. So I implemented https://hn-reader.pages.dev/ for this. Also has dark mode to be easy on eyes.

New comment by ashish01 in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

ashish01 — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:48:56 +0000

> one of the biggest waste of money on an acquisition.

I think that was when intel acquired McAfee for 8B in 2010.

New comment by ashish01 in "You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News"

ashish01 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:50:38 +0000

I wrote one a while back https://github.com/ashish01/hn-data-dumps and it was a lot of fun. One thing which will be cool to implement is that more recent items will update more over time making any recent downloaded items more stale than older ones.

Show HN: HN Reader – Alternate Reader for Hacker New

ashish01 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:56:36 +0000

I built an alternative reader for Hacker News, featuring:

- Dark and light mode - Level-order comment rendering

https://github.com/ashish01/hn-reader

Hope you enjoy it!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672841

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ashish01 in "My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)"

ashish01 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:04:09 +0000

With a one-time setup, a low-fi solution is to receive an email from your bank for every transaction and extract the data into a ledger entry.

New comment by ashish01 in "DeepSeek-R1 for Coding in Zed"

ashish01 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:49:00 +0000

You do get $10 worth of monthly claude credits for free - https://zed.dev/blog/zed-ai-billing but for others like OpenAI or DeepSeek you need an API key.

DeepSeek-R1 for Coding in Zed

ashish01 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:59:05 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/how-is-deepseek-r1-for-coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871765

Points: 31

# Comments: 8

New comment by ashish01 in "Eventually consistent plain text accounting"

ashish01 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:57:01 +0000

https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync is really useful for integrating banks OFX files into an existing ledger file. Over time, it learns common patterns, automatically assigning transactions to the correct accounts.