Posted by david927 3/30/2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
I built it because I was frustrated with how hard it was to manage a large number of channel subscriptions using YouTube’s default interface.
My algo often gets bad, and the best recommendations for YouTube videos come from friends' suggestions. And sometimes I just want to be recommended something totally different than what my algo would know about.
Would it be possible to add that feature?
Sorry, I don’t plan to add that feature.
Uses transformers.js & WebGPU for running transcription, so it's pretty fast. It's still a bit rough around the edges, so I'm looking for feedback.
What makes it different:
* Claude (and other MCP AIs) can both read from and write to your local markdown files
* Creates a connected network of notes that Claude can navigate between
* All data stays as markdown files on your computer
* When you chat with Claude, it automatically builds structure with simple patterns
* You can start a new chat and just say "Let's continue discussing X" without uploading files or copy/pasting
* Files are available locally, so you can edit them in and editor, like Obsidian, VS Code, etc.
I built this because I was tired of repeating myself to AI assistants and wanted my conversations to accumulate into something useful over time. It's basically a way to give Claude persistent memory while keeping your data local and be easily readable and editable my humans.
Some people are using it to maintain project context across sessions, document systems, and build topic maps without having to manually organize everything.
Demo video: https://basicmachines.co/images/Claude-Obsidian-Demo.mp4 GitHub: https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory
This is a tool meant for heavy users of ChatGPT who want to sync their *entire* conversation history to local markdown files. If that describes you, I invite you to check it out!
On the way, I developed lightweight image editor and 3D model viewer components, which I've open sourced [1].
Also, figuring out a way to visualise manhattan chart, score worm, wagon wheels etc using plain text ascii
[1] noscrypt - portable C cryptography library for nostr [2] vnlib - C# + C libraries for server applications, eventual high performance alternative to ASP.NET. It's really just a collection of libraries that are optimized for long running server applications. [3] vncache - vnlib cache extensions and cluster cache server over web-sockets [4] cmnext - self-hosted, vnlib based, json-file CMS + podcast 2.0 server [5] simple-bookmark - kind of deprecated, vnlib based, self hosted bookmark server
My software homepage (most up-to-date) https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/modules
I know most of yall will probably want GitHub links so here [1] https://github.com/VnUgE/noscrypt [2] https://github.com/VnUgE/vnlib.core [3] https://github.com/VnUgE/VNLib.Data.Caching [4] https://github.com/VnUgE/cmnext [5] https://github.com/VnUgE/simple-bookmark