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Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file
Hello HN,
I hope it will posted as well.
I made a note in single html file.
This does not require a separate membership or installation of the software, and if you download and modify an empty file, you can modify and read it at any time, regardless of online or offline.
It can be shared through messengers such as Telegram, so it is also suitable to share contents with long articles and images.
It is also possible to host and blog because it is static html file content.
Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file
Hello HN,
I hope it will posted as well.
I made a note in single html file.
This does not require a separate membership or installation of the software, and if you download and modify an empty file, you can modify and read it at any time, regardless of online or offline.
It can be shared through messengers such as Telegram, so it is also suitable to share contents with long articles and images.
It is also possible to host and blog because it is static html file content.
Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file
Hello HN,
I hope it will posted as well.
I made a note in single html file.
This does not require a separate membership or installation of the software, and if you download and modify an empty file, you can modify and read it at any time, regardless of online or offline.
It can be shared through messengers such as Telegram, so it is also suitable to share contents with long articles and images.
It is also possible to host and blog because it is static html file content.
Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file
Hello HN,
I hope it will posted as well.
I made a note in single html file.
This does not require a separate membership or installation of the software, and if you download and modify an empty file, you can modify and read it at any time, regardless of online or offline.
It can be shared through messengers such as Telegram, so it is also suitable to share contents with long articles and images.
It is also possible to host and blog because it is static html file content.
Show HN: I'm working on a Chrome extension for viewing EXIF data of images
I started this because similar Chrome extensions were paywalling features and I wanted a free, open source alternative. I'm new to this, so I would appreciate feedback and tips if anyone has some!
Show HN: MCPGod: Fine-grained control over MCP clients, servers, and tools
Hey everyone,
I've wanted an easy way to control which mcp server tools are available to clients. So for example, I might want a gmail server to only expose the read tool (but not send, delete etc).<p>I figured if I create a cli for spawning mcp servers, I could intercept the stdin, stdout, stderr etc and modify what the clients see when they are making calls to list tools, resources, and prompts.<p>Well it worked!<p>In the initial version you can easily add a server to claude with a safe list of tools:<p>npx -y mcpgod add @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything --client claude --tools=echo,add<p>Now when you load Claude Desktop, it will only discover the echo and add tools from that server. It's a nice way to keep the agents in line :)<p>You can check it out here: <a href="https://github.com/mcpgod/cli" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mcpgod/cli</a><p>It will also log everything that a client is doing to ~/mcpgod/logs.<p>Currently it only has support for claude, but it will be easy to add cursor, cline, windsurf, etc.<p>With the `tools` command you can list all of a servers tools, and even call a tool directly from the command line, which is pretty fun.<p>I was thinking it would be nice to create a UI for it to easily enable/disable servers and tools for each client, inspect logs, view analytics, etc.<p>Thanks for reading!
Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation
OCR/Document extraction field has seen lot of action recently with releases like Mixtral OCR, Andrew Ng's agentic document processing etc. Also there are several benchmarks for OCR, however all testing for something slightly different which make good comparison of models very hard.<p>To give an example, some models like mixtral-ocr only try to convert a document to markdown format. You have to use another LLM on top of it to get the final result. Some VLM’s directly give structured information like key fields from documents like invoices, but you have to either add business rules on top of it or use some LLM as a judge kind of system to get sense of which output needs to be manually reviewed or can be taken as correct output. No benchmark attempts to measure the actual rate of automation you can achieve.<p>We have tried to solve this problem with a benchmark that is only applicable for documents/usecases where you are looking for automation and its trying to measure that end to end automation level of different models or systems.<p>We have collected a dataset that represents documents like invoices etc which are applicable in processes where automation is needed vs are more copilot in nature where you would need to chat with document. Also have annotated these documents and published the dataset and repo so it can be extended.<p>Here is writeup: <a href="https://nanonets.com/automation-benchmark" rel="nofollow">https://nanonets.com/automation-benchmark</a>
Dataset: <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/nanonets/nn-auto-bench-ds" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/datasets/nanonets/nn-auto-bench-ds</a>
Github: <a href="https://github.com/NanoNets/nn-auto-bench" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/NanoNets/nn-auto-bench</a><p>Looking for suggestions on how this benchmark can be improved further.
Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation
OCR/Document extraction field has seen lot of action recently with releases like Mixtral OCR, Andrew Ng's agentic document processing etc. Also there are several benchmarks for OCR, however all testing for something slightly different which make good comparison of models very hard.<p>To give an example, some models like mixtral-ocr only try to convert a document to markdown format. You have to use another LLM on top of it to get the final result. Some VLM’s directly give structured information like key fields from documents like invoices, but you have to either add business rules on top of it or use some LLM as a judge kind of system to get sense of which output needs to be manually reviewed or can be taken as correct output. No benchmark attempts to measure the actual rate of automation you can achieve.<p>We have tried to solve this problem with a benchmark that is only applicable for documents/usecases where you are looking for automation and its trying to measure that end to end automation level of different models or systems.<p>We have collected a dataset that represents documents like invoices etc which are applicable in processes where automation is needed vs are more copilot in nature where you would need to chat with document. Also have annotated these documents and published the dataset and repo so it can be extended.<p>Here is writeup: <a href="https://nanonets.com/automation-benchmark" rel="nofollow">https://nanonets.com/automation-benchmark</a>
Dataset: <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/nanonets/nn-auto-bench-ds" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/datasets/nanonets/nn-auto-bench-ds</a>
Github: <a href="https://github.com/NanoNets/nn-auto-bench" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/NanoNets/nn-auto-bench</a><p>Looking for suggestions on how this benchmark can be improved further.
Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation
OCR/Document extraction field has seen lot of action recently with releases like Mixtral OCR, Andrew Ng's agentic document processing etc. Also there are several benchmarks for OCR, however all testing for something slightly different which make good comparison of models very hard.<p>To give an example, some models like mixtral-ocr only try to convert a document to markdown format. You have to use another LLM on top of it to get the final result. Some VLM’s directly give structured information like key fields from documents like invoices, but you have to either add business rules on top of it or use some LLM as a judge kind of system to get sense of which output needs to be manually reviewed or can be taken as correct output. No benchmark attempts to measure the actual rate of automation you can achieve.<p>We have tried to solve this problem with a benchmark that is only applicable for documents/usecases where you are looking for automation and its trying to measure that end to end automation level of different models or systems.<p>We have collected a dataset that represents documents like invoices etc which are applicable in processes where automation is needed vs are more copilot in nature where you would need to chat with document. Also have annotated these documents and published the dataset and repo so it can be extended.<p>Here is writeup: <a href="https://nanonets.com/automation-benchmark" rel="nofollow">https://nanonets.com/automation-benchmark</a>
Dataset: <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/nanonets/nn-auto-bench-ds" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/datasets/nanonets/nn-auto-bench-ds</a>
Github: <a href="https://github.com/NanoNets/nn-auto-bench" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/NanoNets/nn-auto-bench</a><p>Looking for suggestions on how this benchmark can be improved further.
Show HN: CodeVideo – Two years in the making to build an event-sourced IDE
Hi everyone! I originally created CodeVideo as a little side project using FFMPEG WASM in the browser as an experiment, but it's since grown into my vision for a completely automated software educational course production system.<p>The idea is that you create the educational content once, then can export the course to multiple formats - as a video (of course!), but also as an interactive webpage, a blog post, or even a book, PDF, or PowerPoint! Basically a "create once, ship everywhere" concept.<p>Things will get more interesting as I incorporate stuff like spell check (for speech) and abstract syntax tree checking (for code), so you can quite literally check the validity of your software course in realtime as you build the course.<p>You can read more about the technical details and history on my Substack launch post:<p><a href="https://codevideo.substack.com/p/launching-codevideo-after-two-years" rel="nofollow">https://codevideo.substack.com/p/launching-codevideo-after-t...</a><p>And here's the intro video about how to use the studio:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/4nyuhWF6SS0" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/4nyuhWF6SS0</a><p>EDIT: added link to the mp4 created in the demo video:<p><a href="https://coffee-app.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/codevideo/v3/a5edf4e4-c512-4b62-b7f9-11dbe689440e.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://coffee-app.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/codevideo...</a><p>From an intellectual and software standpoint this product has been (and still is) an absolute blast to build - and as always, I've learned a TON along the way. Very excited to get feedback from the Hacker community - even (maybe especially?) the classic skeptical feedback ;)<p>As an engineer, I always suck at monetization and things like that - I already am wondering if the whole token system is too complex and perhaps a different model would be better. Again, waiting for feedback from everyone. Until then, enjoy the studio!
Show HN: CodeVideo – Two years in the making to build an event-sourced IDE
Hi everyone! I originally created CodeVideo as a little side project using FFMPEG WASM in the browser as an experiment, but it's since grown into my vision for a completely automated software educational course production system.<p>The idea is that you create the educational content once, then can export the course to multiple formats - as a video (of course!), but also as an interactive webpage, a blog post, or even a book, PDF, or PowerPoint! Basically a "create once, ship everywhere" concept.<p>Things will get more interesting as I incorporate stuff like spell check (for speech) and abstract syntax tree checking (for code), so you can quite literally check the validity of your software course in realtime as you build the course.<p>You can read more about the technical details and history on my Substack launch post:<p><a href="https://codevideo.substack.com/p/launching-codevideo-after-two-years" rel="nofollow">https://codevideo.substack.com/p/launching-codevideo-after-t...</a><p>And here's the intro video about how to use the studio:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/4nyuhWF6SS0" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/4nyuhWF6SS0</a><p>EDIT: added link to the mp4 created in the demo video:<p><a href="https://coffee-app.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/codevideo/v3/a5edf4e4-c512-4b62-b7f9-11dbe689440e.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://coffee-app.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/codevideo...</a><p>From an intellectual and software standpoint this product has been (and still is) an absolute blast to build - and as always, I've learned a TON along the way. Very excited to get feedback from the Hacker community - even (maybe especially?) the classic skeptical feedback ;)<p>As an engineer, I always suck at monetization and things like that - I already am wondering if the whole token system is too complex and perhaps a different model would be better. Again, waiting for feedback from everyone. Until then, enjoy the studio!
Show HN: CodeVideo – Two years in the making to build an event-sourced IDE
Hi everyone! I originally created CodeVideo as a little side project using FFMPEG WASM in the browser as an experiment, but it's since grown into my vision for a completely automated software educational course production system.<p>The idea is that you create the educational content once, then can export the course to multiple formats - as a video (of course!), but also as an interactive webpage, a blog post, or even a book, PDF, or PowerPoint! Basically a "create once, ship everywhere" concept.<p>Things will get more interesting as I incorporate stuff like spell check (for speech) and abstract syntax tree checking (for code), so you can quite literally check the validity of your software course in realtime as you build the course.<p>You can read more about the technical details and history on my Substack launch post:<p><a href="https://codevideo.substack.com/p/launching-codevideo-after-two-years" rel="nofollow">https://codevideo.substack.com/p/launching-codevideo-after-t...</a><p>And here's the intro video about how to use the studio:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/4nyuhWF6SS0" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/4nyuhWF6SS0</a><p>EDIT: added link to the mp4 created in the demo video:<p><a href="https://coffee-app.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/codevideo/v3/a5edf4e4-c512-4b62-b7f9-11dbe689440e.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://coffee-app.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/codevideo...</a><p>From an intellectual and software standpoint this product has been (and still is) an absolute blast to build - and as always, I've learned a TON along the way. Very excited to get feedback from the Hacker community - even (maybe especially?) the classic skeptical feedback ;)<p>As an engineer, I always suck at monetization and things like that - I already am wondering if the whole token system is too complex and perhaps a different model would be better. Again, waiting for feedback from everyone. Until then, enjoy the studio!
Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode
Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode
Show HN: I wrote a browser AI assistant without requiring login
Show HN: Translate Japanese manga and Korean manhwa with Chrome extension
If you are a manga or manhwa lover, you must understand the feeling of waiting for your favourite series being translated into English or sometimes your native language.<p>Now, you can translate them in real-time with Fakey Chrome extension!
Show HN: Daylight – track sunrise / sunset times in your terminal
I love the sunlight and dread the long, dark winter evenings of Northern Europe. I often look up sunrise / sunset times and count off the days until the darkness is gone.<p>Now I've written a terminal app for this (Mac/Linux)<p>Features: a colorful summary of daylight times for your location; projected change over the coming days; handles NO_COLOR and a ---short flag if you dislike the output format.<p>The location is IP-based but you can override this if you're on a VPN. Just create a terminal alias with the --loc flag. The app supports areas in the arctic / antarctic circle too.<p>Check our the repository for a preview and instructions on how you can install it with Homebrew.<p>(There is a Windows build but it's not yet tested)
Show HN: Daylight – track sunrise / sunset times in your terminal
I love the sunlight and dread the long, dark winter evenings of Northern Europe. I often look up sunrise / sunset times and count off the days until the darkness is gone.<p>Now I've written a terminal app for this (Mac/Linux)<p>Features: a colorful summary of daylight times for your location; projected change over the coming days; handles NO_COLOR and a ---short flag if you dislike the output format.<p>The location is IP-based but you can override this if you're on a VPN. Just create a terminal alias with the --loc flag. The app supports areas in the arctic / antarctic circle too.<p>Check our the repository for a preview and instructions on how you can install it with Homebrew.<p>(There is a Windows build but it's not yet tested)
Show HN: We built Lovable for Mobile Apps (uses Flutter)
Hey HN. We built an AI agent, Avid, that creates beautiful Flutter Apps, much like v0 or Lovable. The agent carefully makes UI UX considerations, generates Flutter code, and you get a preview on your browser.<p>I've gone through lots and lots of iterations to help the agent produce beautiful results. Would love your feedback.<p>Ability to download App files and flutter code should be ready this coming week. Have a look and let me know what you think!
Show HN: We built Lovable for Mobile Apps (uses Flutter)
Hey HN. We built an AI agent, Avid, that creates beautiful Flutter Apps, much like v0 or Lovable. The agent carefully makes UI UX considerations, generates Flutter code, and you get a preview on your browser.<p>I've gone through lots and lots of iterations to help the agent produce beautiful results. Would love your feedback.<p>Ability to download App files and flutter code should be ready this coming week. Have a look and let me know what you think!