Hacker News: mdotk

New comment by mdotk in "Ferrari Luce"

mdotk — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:12:07 +0000

Nissan Leaf with a hideous bodykit

New comment by mdotk in "Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)"

mdotk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:01:38 +0000

You're right, the market is flooded with simple "button grid" apps. That saturation is actually why I built FlowPDF.

I didn't want another list of basic tools; I wanted to chain them. I built a node-based editor so you can create actual pipelines (Merge -> OCR -> Filter -> Compress) rather than just doing one-off tasks.

I think that's the only way to actually add value over the 50 other "Hello World" clones.

https://www.flowpdf.app/ if you wanna check it out!

New comment by mdotk in "Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)"

mdotk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:59:20 +0000

I've been working on exactly this with FlowPDF (https://www.flowpdf.app/). It was a huge pain to find a tool that didn't rely on Google APIs.

I integrated a local translation model. It downloads the model to your browser cache on the first run (so it's a bit heavy initially), but after that, you can OCR and translate documents 100% offline without uploading anything.

New comment by mdotk in "Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)"

mdotk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:58:07 +0000

I actually built a tool called FlowPDF - https://www.flowpdf.app/ - specifically to solve this "logic" problem. I found that single-button tools were too limiting for things like "Merge -> Check Size -> Compress".

It uses a node-based graph so you can literally string those steps together (e.g., Merge files -> Split out page 35 -> Compress the rest) and save it as a repeatable workflow.

GTA 6 Is Likely Too Advanced for 60FPS, Even on the PS5 Pro

mdotk — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:35:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gtaboom.com/gta-vi-60-fps-discussion-711c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113566

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

A Man Behind Grand Theft Auto Just Called AI a "Parlor Trick"

mdotk — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:53:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gtaboom.com/the-man-behind-grand-theft-auto-just-called-ai-a-parlor-trick-7cc4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699917

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by mdotk in "Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads"

mdotk — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:39:16 +0000

Just another reason not to buy Samsung. They're already notoriously fragile fridges.

New comment by mdotk in "Devs Cancel Claude Code En Masse – But Why?"

mdotk — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:53:41 +0000

Codex just seems to have a much bigger context and doesn't chew up tokens as readily as Claude. It seems to be able to do a much wider and broader range of things, accepting much wider and broader instructions and implementing them perfectly.Whereas Claude would struggle.

New comment by mdotk in "Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event"

mdotk — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:52:39 +0000

I think it's more because they're way behind on AI and they literally have nothing to actually tell us.

New comment by mdotk in "[dead]"

mdotk — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:07:35 +0000

Isn't the playbook with a $120M+ annual LLM bill?

New comment by mdotk in "Sweeney confirms Epic Games Store launch on Play Store after Google loses appeal"

mdotk — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:11:34 +0000

*Tim Sweeney

New comment by mdotk in "Ask HN: How promote your project?"

mdotk — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:06:17 +0000

FB ads is probably the cheapest way to start getting the word out

Show HN: I built Settle.nz a searchable, daily-updated housing auction database

mdotk — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:52:07 +0000

Hey HN,

I’ve been working on Settle.nz — a clean, searchable, daily-updated database of property auction results across New Zealand.

I come from a WordPress/PHP/HTML background and used Cursor start learning about TypeScript, React and full-stack development.

What it does:

  - Tracks all NZ auctions daily
  - Clean interface with filtering by price, location, status, and date
  - Market dashboards: price trends, suburb comparisons, auction success rates, and heatmaps
  - Agency analytics: see performance by region and over time
  - Email digests: daily/weekly summaries

Under the hood:

  - Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript
  - Tailwind CSS, Headless UI, Recharts, Mapbox
  - Supabase for DB/RPCs, Prisma for some internal data
  - Redis (Upstash) for sitemap/cache
  - Mailgun for transactional email
  - Hosted on Vercel

It's been one heck of a learning curve! Any feedback or suggestions much appreciated.

Also, I realise that being a New Zealand focused site, the content won't have much direct relevance to the audience here, but I thought from a technical / AI coding perspective some of you might find it interesting nonetheless.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44242789

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdotk in "World Bank predicts worst decade for global growth since 60s"

mdotk — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:44:43 +0000

You wouldn't know it looking at stock market indexes

Google to independent publishers: It's not you, it's us. Admits HCU broken

mdotk — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:44:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ranking-update-coming-38323.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42000056

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdotk in "Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game facing 89,000 years"

mdotk — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 03:08:57 +0000

Very old news. The website seems to be republishing stories

New comment by mdotk in "Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible"

mdotk — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:03:50 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702198

Reddit communities will require permission while going private

mdotk — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:14:49 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/reddit-communities-will-require-permission-while-going-private-or-switching-to-nsfw/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702198

Points: 13

# Comments: 3

New comment by mdotk in "WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic"

mdotk — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:38:21 +0000

I'm no fan of WP Engine and their outrageous prices for very average performance, but this is a terrible look for Matt M if true. reply

New comment by mdotk in "Re: Automattic's Actionable Misconduct Directed to WP Engine [pdf]"

mdotk — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:38:09 +0000

I'm no fan of WP Engine and their outrageous prices for very average performance, but this is a terrible look for Matt M if true.