Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

Post by tonelord » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 6:58 PM UTC

tonelord wrote: post #663

While building some software tools for my bass guitar I wanted to create some kind of video series or whatever to share it with others. I have been using online courses and youtube forever and they all have converged on a similar format. Basically, adapt a textbook to slides and add voiceover. Sometimes they'll be animated. Not for everyone but I like it for passive learning. Being a web developer I always thought vi…

Post by ptak_dev » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 6:59 PM UTC

Post by consumer451 » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 9:50 PM UTC

consumer451 wrote: post #666

I just launched a free wysiwyg markdown editor. It currently uses only IndexedDB for storage making it as private as possible. The only network calls are polling for the "click to update" toast, and the feedback form. I was sick of getting cross-eyed when looking at tables in raw markdown and was just running it locally. This weekend I realized it might be useful for others. The goal was simple as possible UX. Open u…

Post by XR843 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 3:55 AM UTC

  Building FoJin (https://fojin.app) — an open-source platform that
  aggregates Buddhist digital texts from 440+ global sources (CBETA,
  SuttaCentral, BDRC, SAT, 84000, GRETIL, etc.) into one searchable
  interface.

  Stack: React + TypeScript, FastAPI, PostgreSQL with pgvector,
  Elasticsearch 8 (ICU analysis for CJK), Redis. Features include a
  knowledge graph (9,600+ entities), 237K dictionary entries, full-text
  reading of 4,488 fascicles, and RAG-powered AI Q&A grounded in 11M
  characters of canonical text.

  GitHub: https://github.com/xr843/fojin

Post by klueinc » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 11:08 AM UTC