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Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary

Hacker News - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 6:40pm

My great-grandfather Reuben P. Box was a US Forest Ranger in Northern California, and I've got his daily work diary from 1927-1945, through the depression, WWII, Conservation Corps, and lots of forest fires. I've scanned the entire thing, had Claude help with transcription, indexing, and web site building, and put the whole thing here:

https://forestrydiary.com/

This is one of those projects I've sat on for years, but with Claude and Mistral helping with the handwriting recognition, and even helping me write a custom scanning app that would auto scan each page and put it into a database as I assembled everything.

As far as I know, this is the only US Forestry Diary that has been fully scanned in and published. I understand that there are other diaries in some collections, but none have been scanned in. I hope this helps somebody. Please let me know if it does.

This is the sort of project Claude and AI can help with - A personal project that sits on the shelf forever, but now a reasonable project that can be published in my spare time. I'm not trying to earn money on this, but just improving our knowledge and history just a little bit.

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PointsCard – The Stripe for local business loyalty

Hacker News - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 5:55pm

Article URL: https://pointscard.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041483

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Free Models Router – OpenRouter

Hacker News - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 5:52pm
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Show HN: Babylog – baby tracker built with OpenClaw from a hospital room

Hacker News - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 5:50pm

Hey HN! I built Babylog (https://babylog.chand1012.dev) — a simple baby tracker for logging feedings, diapers, and naps — entirely from my wife's hospital room using an AI coding agent.

My wife's water broke the day before her due date. After 18 hours of labor and an emergency c-section at 3am, our son was born. When a nurse asked "do you know what time he ate last?" and we had no idea, I knew I needed something to track it. But I didn't bring my laptop.

I had OpenClaw set up on a home server, accessible via Telegram. So I built the whole thing from my phone — planning the architecture, writing code, deploying to Cloudflare Workers — all through chat.

Stack:

• React + Vite + React Router frontend (PWA) • Hono backend on Cloudflare Workers • Cloudflare D1 (SQLite) for storage • Retro UI component library • CI/CD via GitHub Actions The MVP deployed and worked first try — account creation, child profiles, diaper and feeding logging all functional immediately. My wife and I have been using it daily since.

What went well: Zero-to-working-app without touching a keyboard. The agent handled monorepo setup, API design, frontend, deployment, and even CI/CD pipeline creation.

What didn't: No migration system (the agent skipped proper DB migrations), context poisoning made initial Cloudflare deployment painful (~1 hour of fighting the wrong API endpoint), and I broke every security best practice by giving the agent my API keys directly.

Lessons learned: Scaffold your template and CI/CD first, then let the agent iterate on features. Blog post with the full story: https://dev.to/chand1012/i-built-a-baby-tracker-app-from-my-...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041425

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Doc Edgerton a.k.a. "Papa Flash"

Hacker News - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 5:49pm
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