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Show HN:Fiig-The best way to mark up PDFs with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnOJnQvAbyw
1•ieuanking•1h ago
Hi HN!

Big AI keeps missing the mark for students. Study Mode and current chatbots do not reinforce or build critical thinking skills to turn information into knowledge. Unlike ChatGPT or classic chatbots, we focused on reading, note-taking, and citation + you can reference, note, and file using @[item_name] (like cursor).

Think: Google Scholar + ChatGPT + AI Highlighting Tools = Fiig

Our current users love Fiig because of the resource-intensive and content-driven experience. Fiig gives you access to a vast library of academic sources, or you can integrate your uploaded files for comprehensive, personalized research. Quickly search for relevant papers and studies across multiple academic databases. Upload and index your PDF documents. AI-powered relevancy ranking for search results. Filter by publication date, author, or journals.

The special sauce: Our overpowered AI annotation tools. Fiig can highlight down to the line in any uploaded or found PDF. This is great for draft revision, quote gathering, source skimming. When chatting with a PDF, Fiig is contextually locked to the information in the added PDF, so hallucination is minimized, and as you make notes and interactions, the context awareness around your needs increases dramatically.

Try Fiig today -- www.ubik.studio

Feedback is welcome and encouraged.

We are working on EVALS and an app. Will update you soon! (we are just a team of two with soooooo much to do lmao)

Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?

https://zed.dev/blog/windows-progress-report
1•janjones•49s ago•0 comments

How do LSM Trees work?

https://rowjee.com/blog/lsmtrees
1•romanhn•1m ago•0 comments

Why is my device a touchpad and a mouse and a keyboard?

http://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-is-my-device-touchpad-and-mouse-and.html
1•naves•1m ago•0 comments

Major autism study uncovers biologically distinct subtypes

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study-uncovers-biologically-distinct-subtypes-paving-way-precision
1•josh-sematic•1m ago•0 comments

How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/
1•thm•1m ago•0 comments

Our Shared Reality Will Self-Destruct in the Next 12 Months

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/our-shared-reality-will-self-destruct
1•nickwritesit•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards

https://github.com/rhodey/bizcardz.ai
1•rhodey•2m ago•0 comments

Political Donations via ChatGPT Agent

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-08-20-chatgpt-agent-political-donation/
1•m-hodges•3m ago•0 comments

A Climate of Unparalleled Malevolence

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/a-climate-of-unparalleled-malevolence-are-we-on-our-way-to-the-sixth-major-mass-extinction
1•anigbrowl•4m ago•0 comments

The theory and practice of selling the Aga cooker (1935) [pdf]

https://comeadwithus.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/the-theory-and-practice-of-selling-the-aga-cooker.pdf
1•phpnode•5m ago•0 comments

Fine-Tuned Open Sourced Models vs. System Tuned SOTA Models for Customization?

1•Ihmzf•5m ago•0 comments

GSA launches AI sandbox, says it won't be around for long

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/brandnew_government_ai_sandbox_only/
2•rntn•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nestable.dev – local whiteboard app with nestable canvases, deep links

https://nestable.dev/about
1•anorak27•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We beat Google DeepMind but got killed by Zhipu AI

https://github.com/minitap-ai/mobile-use
2•orangepomodoro•8m ago•0 comments

We keep fixing symptoms, not root causes

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-08-21-logs-traces-metrics-before-and-after/view
1•ndhandala•9m ago•0 comments

A refresher on end-to-end API Security

https://wso2.com/library/blogs/securing-apis-with-wso2-api-manager-a-guide-to-end-to-end-api-security/
1•langur•9m ago•0 comments

Modal's custom container runtime, filesystems, and GPU solver

https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/how-modal-built-a-data-cloud-from-the-ground-up
3•itunpredictable•11m ago•0 comments

Ultra Ethernet's Design Principles and Architectural Innovations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08906
1•giuliomagnifico•13m ago•0 comments

Russian drone fell in eastern Poland

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-drone-fell-eastern-poland-warsaw-says-2025-08-20/
3•danielam•15m ago•0 comments

Proxy 4: The Next Leap in C++ Polymorphism

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-proxy-4-the-next-leap-in-c-polymorphism/
2•janjones•17m ago•0 comments

I gave Claude Code a folder of tax documents and used it as a tax agent

https://martinalderson.com/posts/building-a-tax-agent-with-claude-code/
1•martinald•18m ago•1 comments

The Dangerous Legal Strategy Coming for Our Books

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/book-bans-public-schools/683921/
2•littlexsparkee•19m ago•2 comments

Privacy Washing Is a Dirty Business

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/08/20/privacy-washing-is-a-dirty-business/
3•samuel246•22m ago•0 comments

Can Peanut Allergies Be Cured?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-treatments-can-free-kids-from-the-deadly-threat-of-peanut-allergy/
1•stevenjgarner•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Llmswap v3.0 – CLI and SDK for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Watsonx

https://pypi.org/project/llmswap/
2•sreenathmenon•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turn any study material into practice questions with one photo

https://www.lexielearn.com/en
2•e_patjas•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an app to track expense temptation

https://app.skipwise.org
1•0xshadow•26m ago•0 comments

FictusVNC – Fake VNC server to serve your images easily

https://github.com/ayebrian/fictusvnc
2•LorenDB•26m ago•0 comments

Economics of RL

https://www.mechanize.work/blog/cheap-rl-tasks-will-waste-compute/
2•Tamaybes•26m ago•0 comments

Google announces Tennessee as site for small modular nuclear reactor

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-announces-tennessee-site-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-2025-08-18/
2•rbanffy•28m ago•0 comments