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Show HN: Turn Bilibili favorites into a personal RAG knowledge base

Hacker News - Sat, 02/21/2026 - 9:19pm

I built this to solve a personal problem: I save many long-form Bilibili videos (talks/courses), but cannot retrieve key ideas later.

Pipeline: - Bilibili auth + favorites sync - Audio extraction + ASR fallback (handles inaccessible audio URLs) - Chunking + embeddings + ChromaDB - RAG chat UI with source links

Stack: FastAPI, LangChain, ChromaDB, Next.js, SQLite.

I’d love feedback on: 1) retrieval quality tradeoffs 2) better indexing strategy for long videos 3) cost control for ASR + embeddings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107449

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Show HN: Public Domain Image Search

Hacker News - Sat, 02/21/2026 - 9:08pm

With the increasing prevalence of AI-generated imagery, it's also hard to find what is real.

The public domain has many millions of interesting images, all free to use. Why not try to make them more discoverable. The site uses vector image embeddings to find content 'within' the image, rather than just in captions and titles. Search, for example, 'drawings of ships' and the semantically closest search results will be shown (along with lots of other features). 90k images currently added, aiming for 1 million soon.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107391

Points: 1

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Show HN: WordBulb – Interactive Word Cloud Generator You Can Use for Navigation

Hacker News - Sat, 02/21/2026 - 9:06pm

Hey HN,

I’ve been building a few SaaS products over the last couple of years, and in between larger features I sometimes build small tools to reset my brain. This started as one of those.

It’s called WordBulb:

https://wordbulb.com/word-cloud-generator

At first, it was just a simple word cloud generator. But while building it, I kept thinking: why are most word clouds basically just decorative images?

They look interesting, but they’re not useful.

So I decided to make it interactive and embeddable — where every word can have its own target link.

What it does

Add your own words

Assign a custom URL to each word [the clicked word can be passed as query parameter]

Generate an interactive SVG word cloud

Embed it directly into your site

Each word is clickable.

You can use it as:

A visual table of contents

A tag cloud alternative

A creative way to surface affiliate links

A keyword visualization block inside a blog post

Instead of a boring list of links, you get something more dynamic and visually scannable.

Why I built it

I work a lot with SEO-heavy products and content-driven sites. I’ve always liked the idea of visual navigation — not just menus and bullet lists.

Tag clouds used to be popular, but most implementations are static and uninspiring.

I wanted:

Full control over words

Manual link mapping

Clean SVG output

Something lightweight that doesn’t depend on external libraries

It also fits into a broader idea I’ve been exploring around visual startup directories and keyword-based navigation systems.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107371

Points: 1

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Free, local-first barcode generator (No server uploads)

Hacker News - Sat, 02/21/2026 - 9:02pm

Hi HN,

I’m the developer behind BarcodX (https://barcodx.com). I built this to solve a recurring headache I saw with small businesses and e-commerce sellers trying to print inventory labels.

The current landscape for generating bulk barcodes (like Code 128 or FNSKU labels for Amazon) is pretty bad. You either have to pay a hefty monthly subscription for enterprise software (like BarTender), or you have to use free online generators that force you to upload your sensitive CSV inventory/customer data to their servers.

I wanted to build a "local-first" alternative.

BarcodX is a bulk barcode generator and visual label designer where 100% of the data processing happens client-side in your browser. You can upload a CSV with thousands of rows, map your fields to a drag-and-drop label template, and export a printable PDF. Because it all runs locally using standard web APIs, it’s fast, and your data never touches an external server.

It currently supports standard formats like Code 128, UPC, EAN, and QR codes. It is completely free, and there is no sign-up required to try it out here: https://barcodx.com

I’d love to get your feedback on the UX, the label designer, or any edge-case barcode formats I should add next. Happy to answer any technical questions!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107343

Points: 1

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Show HN: Residue – connect AI agent conversations with Git commits

Hacker News - Sat, 02/21/2026 - 8:57pm

A simple CLI + self hosted backend that captures AI agent conversations and connects them to the git commits that happened.

All self hosted with cloudflare workers + R2 for storage.

https://github.com/butttons/residue

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107306

Points: 1

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