After spending many years on the VC/startup track I found myself being pulled towards doing something more inline with my faith. As an engineer I felt like this is the best way I could contribute my skills.
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#362- Create your own PDF editor with custom UI with the help of public methods which are exposed in the web component.
- You can add dynamic variables/data to the templates. What this means is you create one template, for example, a certificate template with name and date as variables and all you have to do is upload your CSV / JSON of names and dates, and it will generate the dynamic PDFs for you.
- It's framework-agnostic. You can use this library in any front-end framework.
It's still in early development, and I would love to connect with people who have some use cases around it.
I have integrated this library in one of our projects, Formester. You can see the details here https://formester.com/features/pdf-editor/
I have posted this demo video for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jorWjTOMjfs
Note: Right now it has very limited capabilities like only adding text and image elements. Will be adding more features going forward.
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#364I am using cerebras for book translations and verb extraction and all LLM related tasks. For TTS I am using cartesia. I have played around with Elevenlabs and they have slightly natural sounding TTS but their pricing is too steep for this project. Books would cost a couple of hundred euros to process.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#365I am a PhD student and for a while now I'm designing and developing a distributed network protocol that enables dynamic resource allocation across heterogeneous nodes, to which I called Rank. It's designed to handle computational, network, and temporal resources in fully distributed environments without central controllers, but that could also handle a centralized environment. Rank implements four core functions: dis…
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#367* https://cijene.dev (HR, open source) - recently, Croatian retail chains were mandated to start publishing grocery prices online, but not how, so they made a mess of it; I've been building a crawler + unified API to avoid people duplicating the crawl/parse/cleanup effort (open source) * https://trosko.hr (HR, Android/iOS app) - super-simple receipt/bill tracker (snap a photo of the receipt, reads it using Gemini, ca…
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#368When I was in college I really hated searching through all the excel and google docs menus to add trendline, change colors, gridlines, etc (and sadly I didn't have the agency to learn matplotlib or seaborn). I figure others might hate this too, and it would be so cool to have csv + prompt -> exportable svg chart
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#369I'm trying to see if I can "get away with it": no schema migration, no fixed views, one tenant per DB, local-first-friendliness.
The general approach is "Datomic meets XTDB meets redplanetlabs/Rama meets Local First". Conceptually, the lynchpin "WORLD FACTs" table looks like this:
| tx_id | valid_id | tx_t | valid_t | origin_t | entity | attribute | value | assert | namespace | user | role |
|--------+----------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------+-------+--------+---------------+------+------|
| uuidv7 | uuidv7 | unix ms | unix ms | uuid7 | adi | problems | sql | 1 | org.evalapply | adi | boss |
2. "Writing for Nerds"A workshop I've been experimenting with, using willing friends as guinea pigs. To help people remove friction from being able to "spool brain to disk". The sales-y part is here, with more context / explanation about what it is about and what it is not about: https://www.evalapply.org/index.html#writing-for-nerds
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#370Examples wiki: https://github.com/scottvr/pbngen/wiki
The code: https://github.com/scottvr/pbngen