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

rkwz — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:46:35 +0000

Creating my own photo curation tool inspired by Adobe Lightroom - https://github.com/sheshbabu/riffle

New comment by rkwz in "Self-hosting is being enshittified"

rkwz — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:42:29 +0000

> I have been hosting all my services on a single Intel Nuc from 10 years ago and a RPI5 as backup for critical services like DNS.

Yes, fully agree with this and I've a similar setup. I even started with using wsl on the default windows install hoping to switch later to linux, but didn't have much need for this. Only gripe is tailscale seems to be flaky (rare) in windows.

Better to start with something small and cheap, see if it solves your needs and then upgrade if needs. Don't overcomplicate things based on what others do.

Zen Notes: Go/Markdown/SQLite notes app with minimal deps and 10MB memory usage

rkwz — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:39:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sheshbabu/zen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345585

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What's the best way to extract text from information dense pdfs?

rkwz — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:44:01 +0000

Examples for PDFs: Pitch Decks, Annual Reports etc which have text, charts, tables etc.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44939210

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by rkwz in "Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems"

rkwz — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:15:32 +0000

I found this post very helpful to getting started with agentic systems, what other posts do others recommend?

New comment by rkwz in "Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents in production"

rkwz — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:28:08 +0000

I see, that's a good way to think about it

New comment by rkwz in "Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents in production"

rkwz — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:02:17 +0000

In the research workflow example, what if the first set of search queries don’t return good results. If the LLM tool loop decides to refine the queries, would this be “agency”?

New comment by rkwz in "Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents in production"

rkwz — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:16:06 +0000

Do you have a writeup on the different interpretations of "AI Agent"?

New comment by rkwz in "Ollama's new app"

rkwz — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:28:34 +0000

Thanks!

I use this package for markdown: https://github.com/gonzalezreal/swift-markdown-ui

New comment by rkwz in "Ollama's new app"

rkwz — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:01:49 +0000

[Shameless Plug]

I built my own Ollama macOS app written in SwiftUI: https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital

Launches fast and weighs less than 2MB in size!

New comment by rkwz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

rkwz — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:18:26 +0000

I'm working on Zen Notes - a minimal, distraction-free notes app that prioritizes ownership and longevity.

The core philosophy is: your notes should be yours forever, that also includes the software stack it's built on. Everything is stored locally in SQLite with standard Markdown, so no vendor lock-in or proprietary formats. The interface is very minimal without flashy colors or icons, so you can focus on your thoughts.

Key features: instant full-text search using BM25, flexible tag organization instead of rigid folders, rich Markdown support with formatting toolbar, and custom "Focus Modes" for different contexts. It's a PWA that works offline (read-only).

The tech stack prioritizes minimal dependencies - no NPM (self-hosted Preact instead of React), Golang for rich standard library, etc. The whole app can be run from a single binary, so no messy installation requirements. Docker is also available.

I tried to design this from scratch, learning about typography, colors, spacing etc. It turned out better than I expected!

I've switched to this as my main notes app and I'm happy with it.

Landing Page: https://www.sheshbabu.com/zen/

Demo: https://zendemo.fly.dev

New comment by rkwz in "Don't animate height"

rkwz — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:35:56 +0000

CSS animations can sometimes cause weird performance issues or even crashes. 10 years back, animating box-shadow caused browsers to crash for our some of users by consuming a lot of memory: https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/my-binary-search-debugging-s...