Hacker News: knadh

New comment by knadh in "HTML Can Do That"

knadh — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:47:13 +0000

I'm currently in the process of taking a lot of risk rewriting a large-ish app that I maintain to fully eliminate the use of frontend frameworks (and the larger JS ecosystem in general) and to switch to simple SSR + semantic HTML and CSS.

Using this tiny lib [2: shameless plug] I wrote specifically incorporating the "HTML Can Do That"-style realisations going into the big rewrite.

[1] - https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/issues/3073

[2] - https://oat.ink

New comment by knadh in "Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web"

knadh — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:59:39 +0000

Deploying and tinkering with Matt's scripts was a very formative exercise in my early teenage years. I rememher offering public FormMail and guestbook hosting services (on underlying10MB shared hosting plans!)

New comment by knadh in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

knadh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:36:44 +0000

https://nadh.in

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

knadh — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:36:31 +0000

- https://dict.press - A (language) dictionary publishing and management system.

- WIP: A FOSS, self-hosted Luma alternative (for use across our community initiatives)

New comment by knadh in "Mistral OCR 3"

knadh — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:37:31 +0000

Once you have managed to get the data out and structured, you may want to check out dict.press. It's a dictionary publishing and management tool (which I maintain). Multiple widely used Indian dictionary projects run on it.

New comment by knadh in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

knadh — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:35:49 +0000

The delay is on our side while we wait for regulatory approvals (India) for cross-border disbursements, I must clarify. The issues are described in the post I linked [2].

New comment by knadh in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

knadh — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:01:45 +0000

We've allocated $60,000 to NTP from FLOSS/fund [1]. It happened in May, but the disbursal is pending owing to paperwork [2]. We hope it'll go through in the next couple of months.

[1] https://floss.fund/projects/2025/

[2] https://floss.fund/blog/second-tranche-2025-anniversary/#wha...

New comment by knadh in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

knadh — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:19:51 +0000

Been self-hosting for a while. Amazing set of features and web and mobile apps work flawlessly.

New comment by knadh in "Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service"

knadh — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:07:00 +0000

Weather over DNS

  dig london.weather @dns.toys

New comment by knadh in "Get the location of the ISS using DNS"

knadh — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:12:24 +0000

Yep, all tools return formatted strings as TXT records.

New comment by knadh in "Get the location of the ISS using DNS"

knadh — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:04:33 +0000

This is quite cool! I just added this to dns.toys [1]

  dig iss.sky +short @dns.toys

[1] https://dns.toys

New comment by knadh in "AI means the end of internet search as we've known it"

knadh — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:03:52 +0000

I wrote about something tangential a few months ago; the need to have curation-based alternate forms of discovery on the WWW.

https://nadh.in/blog/decentralised-open-indexes/

New comment by knadh in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"

knadh — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 03:35:38 +0000

Pretty much exactly what I have been thinking lately. Write about it recently here: https://nadh.in/blog/decentralised-open-indexes/

New comment by knadh in "Why pay for a search engine"

knadh — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 06:27:32 +0000

> I hope Kagi succeeds. But personally, I think the web is dead. And no search engine can save it.

I concur. Maybe now is the time to seriously think about alternate visions for "search". I have been toying with an idea[1] along those lines myself out of sheer annoyance at the state of WWW and web "search" in general.

[1] https://nadh.in/blog/decentralised-open-indexes/

New comment by knadh in "Dublin Core, what is it good for?"

knadh — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 03:09:08 +0000

Omeka-S[1] is an open source publishing platform (for museums, libraries, artifact collections etc) that has first class support for Dublin Core.

Dublin Core “clicked” for me when we started using it in Omeka to publish a collection of digitised books online[2].

- https://omeka.org

- https://gpura.org

New comment by knadh in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

knadh — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:16:15 +0000

https://nadh.in/blog

Techno-philosophical ramblings.

New comment by knadh in "AWS Lambda function for converting of Telegram channel to RSS feed"

knadh — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:25:14 +0000

Related: I've written a Python tool (CLI) that exports Telegram channels to static webpages.

https://github.com/knadh/tg-archive

New comment by knadh in "Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report"

knadh — Wed, 10 May 2023 03:48:33 +0000

Daily Thunderbird user for about 17 years. Has always worked well. The recent UI improvements are nice (on the eyes), but, I’m so used to the UI/UX, it just blends into the background.

New comment by knadh in "Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week?"

knadh — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 04:07:17 +0000

Adding new features to listmonk (mailing list / newsletter manager), preparing for its next release.

https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

Setting up and playing around with Omeka, a brilliant document publishing system, to help publish an archive of digitised physical books and documents.

https://omeka.org

New comment by knadh in "Free tool to translate your i18next resources"

knadh — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 19:04:02 +0000

I’ve a simple static HTML+JS page that renders a translation UI by reading a JSON i18n file from a GitHub repo (can be any URL).

Demo: https://listmonk.app/i18n/

Source: https://github.com/knadh/listmonk-site/tree/master/i18n