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

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I'm writing an essay about how I use an ancient text editor, GNU Emacs, along with gptel, Gemini, some local models, yt-dlp, and patreon-dl to help me me study an ancient language, Latin. I want to show how I liberate poorly aligned, pixelated PDF image scans of century-old Latin textbooks from the Internet Archive and transform them into glorious Org mode documents while preserving important typographic details, nic…

This is insanely cool. Thanks for sharing. I'll follow you on https://muppetlabs.com/.

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

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PSA: This is the best place to collect upvotes for your vibe coded ideas/projects that you think might not be up to "Show HN" quality yet, whether reproducible at the source code or prompting level(s) of software development or not... the bar is understood to be much lower here.

PSA PS. Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans https://news.ycomtem?id=47340079

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

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Building SiteSecurityScore (https://www.sitesecurityscore.com). A website security scanner that grades your site and tells you exactly what to fix.

It gives you a detailed breakdown of what's missing, step by step guidance on how to fix each issue, and shareable report links. Excellent resource for security teams of all sizes.

Scans HTTP headers, TLS/SSL, DNS security, cookies, and page content. Free to get started, with a REST API for integrating scans into your CI/CD pipeline or monitoring. Also supports capturing and reporting CSP violations.

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