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New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:49:01 +0000

You're in luck. I built this especially to target series and you can ask questions across books whether they're in a series or not. I wanted to be able to ask questions of books that aren't even related to each other together.

Royal Road looks cool. Do you know if you can extract them into an epub? I have a user who extensively reads Web Novels and I wrote a blog post about that just today. He converts them to epubs AFAIK and uses them.

https://blog.merrilin.ai/engineering/2026/translation-drift/

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Write for One Person"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:44:17 +0000

I've always written my blog for myself. I keep it as a record of what I'm working on, I suppose, or what I'm interested in. I was mildly surprise to find I had 279 blog posts on https://tech.stonecharioteer.com. I only ever write for myself. Whenever I try to write for an audience, I am not satisfied.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: How do you handle browser tab overload?"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:42:35 +0000

Do you mean overload to your senses? I always close most of my tabs. My policy is that if you don't bookmark, you don't care enough. Same goes for my local data. If I don't remember what's on my disk, or haven't backed it up periodically, I don't care about what's on it.

If you mean about RAM usage: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-suspender/fiabc... is a good extension.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Saving Money on Inference"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:40:41 +0000

Thanks for reading it. At this point we are trying to balance technical vs showcase blog posts. Revealing too much for a product makes it easy for someone to reengineer with one prompt these days.

Translation Drift in Web Novels: Answering Vague Questions in the Moment

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:17:02 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.merrilin.ai/engineering/2026/translation-drift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538680

Points: 4

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New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:16:06 +0000

That's a good point, but our harness right now is very fine tuned towards kimi2.6, it's something we want to improve but it's just 2 broke dudes working on it right now.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:16:13 +0000

As someone who loves FoxIt reader, I'm building https://merrilin.ai to be the best damned ebook reader out there, to support PDF and epub. FoxIt's annotation system is one of the best I've experienced and I want to design one that is just as good if not better.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:12:39 +0000

Yay! Registrations to https://merrilin.ai are open and you can enjoy a free account for as long as I can afford to give it (I have no funding lol). The android app is ready for closed testing too, if you have an Android device, mail me at mail [at] stonecharioteer.com and I'll add you to the beta testing. ios is still a pain.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:11:00 +0000

Yay! Please do, or email me at mail [at] stonecharioteer.com

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:07:42 +0000

Could we talk and exchange notes? I have a calendar link on my profile. Or I'd be glad to book something on your calendar if you could share.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Your ePub Is fine"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:05:47 +0000

Hello, I'm building https://merrilin.ai, could I pick your brain about the problems you faced?

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

stonecharioteer — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:21:04 +0000

https://merrilin.ai, the best damned reading app for every platform with an AI chat that's spoiler safe by design. BYOB - bring your own books.

Saving Money on Inference

stonecharioteer — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:49:06 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.merrilin.ai/engineering/2026/saving-money-on-inference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460433

Points: 3

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New comment by stonecharioteer in "Book Dedications"

stonecharioteer — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:07:58 +0000

I think my favourite are from the Otherworld books by Tadd Williams. He dedicated it to his dad who doesn't read and never told him about it. The gag goes on to all the books into the series.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

stonecharioteer — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:59:41 +0000

Location: Bengaluru, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Rust, Typescript Résumé/CV: https://cv.stonecharioteer.com Email: mail [at] stonecharioteer.com

Something cool I've built: https://merrilin.ai