Hey HN, In this age of agentic coding I've found myself spending a lot of time reviewing markdown files. Whether it's plans or documentation that I've asked my agent to generate for me, it seems that I spend more time reading markdown than code. I've tried a few different solutions to make it easier to read such as Obsidian however I've found their Vault system to be quite limiting for this use case and I've found TUI solutions to not quite be as friendly to read as I've wanted so I made Marky. Marky is a lightweight desktop application that makes it incredibly easy to read and track your markdown files. It also has a helpful cli so you can just run marky FILENAME and have the app open to the md file that you pointed it at. I've been using the daily over the past week and I really enjoy it so I figured I'd share it. I have plans to add more features such as incorporating agentic tools such as claude code and codex into the UI as well as developing a local git diff reviewer to allow me to do local code review before pushing up to git. I'd love to hear your thoughts and any feature suggestions you may have :) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795468 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
I built a set of lightweight financial decision tools (buy vs rent, house hacking, retirement, debt payoff) after trying to model a condo purchase for my girlfriend. Backstory: My girlfriend was looking into buying a condo, and I was trying to convey to her how the costs add up, even compared to renting. I knew from my personal experience with house-hacking in Seattle right out of college that the simple "renting is throwing money down the drain" philosophy can lead you to rush into buying properties without actually understanding the financial implications. I was having a tough time conveying this to her verbally, so I built a "house-hacking calculator" for her using Codex to visually model how investing a down payment and renting compares to buying a condo. Once I finished that initial prototype for her, I realized I had built something more generally useful. A lot of the available financial tools online are either overly complex for decisions like this (require modeling tax brackets, classifying bonds/investment allocations, etc.), overly simplistic (just input your mortgage rate and balance, don't consider that you can reinvest proceeds after sale), and/or require you to input a bunch of contact information before you get the answers you're looking for. There was room for a free, responsive, lightweight tool that would immediately show to you how changing variables like down payment, interest rate, and inflation rate can impact your financial standing, without requiring you to sell your contact information. Once I built the house-hacking calculator with these design philosophies in mind, I had a lot of fun expanding to other tools like retirement planning, budget allocation, debt paydown, rent vs buy, etc. It was also really rewarding when I learned how I could host my own static webpages on Cloudflare for just $10/year for the domain. Hopefully folks find the tools useful, and I'd love feedback on any faulty assumptions, missing inputs, and other tools I should add. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772986 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://github.com/adrianium/Scryptian Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764747 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
I got frustrated with Gmail's lack of customization, and built an extension for myself. It doesn't do much other than modify how Gmail is displayed in Chrome. Does it as minimally as possible (that I can engineer). Done locally, zero remote processing. Currently built the following settings (want to add more soon): Conversations: * Show newest message first * Show every message in a thread (sometimes they're collapsed into numbered bubbles) * Remove AI overviews (retches) Layout/UI: * Minimize the search & top bar * Minimize the far left "rail" (Mail/Chat/Meet) * Hide a bunch of extraneous icons/buttons/items * Adjust width of Folders/Labels column (still in-process) Mini-Automations: * Automatically open to inbox on page start/refresh * Automatically select first message if the reading pane is open (unless unread, or previous message already selected) * Add a recurring reminder (if wanted) to use Gmail's new Manage Subscriptions folder/feature Bunch more features I'd like to add. Let me know if you think I should change anything. Or if you have any code/bug feedback... :) [email protected] Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757667 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://github.com/KaTXi/zero-wysiwyg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751583 Points: 1 # Comments: 3