frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Show HN: I built an AI in 3 days at 16 y/o that lets you chat with your PDFs

https://www.pdfchat.fr
2•safwanbouceta•1h ago
Hey, it's Safwan

I'm 16 and obsessed with AI and coding. Last year, I was struggling with my homework - especially when teachers gave us long PDF documents to analyze for history and literature classes.

The problem? I'd spend hours scrolling through 30-page PDFs trying to find specific quotes or information for my essays. My friends had the same issue - we were all wasting time instead of actually learning.

I tried Ctrl+F, highlighting, even printing everything out... but I realized what we really needed was to ask questions to our documents like we would to a teacher.

So during summer break, I taught myself more about AI and built the first version of PDF Chat.

Now I can finish my research in minutes instead of hours, and I'm helping students and professionals worldwide do the same. Pretty cool for a high schooler, right?

Comments

Bender•1h ago
What is the data retention period and does this share peoples PDF's with third parties? Does the AI retain data it learned about a corporation or individuals PII and corporate secrets from within a PDF?
safwanbouceta•1h ago
Hello Bender, PDFs are stored until they are deleted. They are not shared with third parties. The AI may temporarily use the information in the PDFs to answer questions, but it is not retained permanently.

2025-09-23 Trump Address to United Nations General Assembly [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_9kY6sz_Uc
1•treetalker•30s ago•0 comments

Seal Showdown Technical Report (AI Benchmark) [pdf]

https://showdown.scale.com/assets/SEAL_Showdown_Tech_Report.pdf
1•freeqaz•1m ago•0 comments

How I Drank My Way to Sobriety

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-i-drank-my-way-to-sobriety-katie-herzog
1•fortran77•3m ago•1 comments

From Abuse to Alignment: Why We Need Sustainable Open Source Infrastructure

https://www.sonatype.com/blog/from-abuse-to-alignment-why-we-need-sustainable-open-source-infrast...
1•pjmlp•4m ago•0 comments

Preventing IoT Edge Device Cloning

https://www.embedded.com/preventing-iot-device-cloning/
3•willhschmid•4m ago•0 comments

Speak Sylheti? Tamajaght? Klingon? Inside the Festival for Endangered Languages

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/23/sylheti-klingon-tamajaght-festival-for-endangered...
3•devonnull•7m ago•0 comments

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites

https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/
2•davidbarker•7m ago•0 comments

The Martians (Scientists)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
2•alexmolas•9m ago•0 comments

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Curious Contributions to Quantum Theory (2011)

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2011/06/30/137378233/how-the-hippies-saved-physics-curious-cont...
2•lawrenceyan•10m ago•0 comments

Technology Report 2025

https://www.bain.com/insights/topics/technology-report/
2•Improvement•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Share a video-series of developing non-trivial things with AI?

1•pinkmuffinere•12m ago•0 comments

FCC Demands Repayment of $1.18M for Overbilling of Tablets in Covid-Era Programs

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-414711A1.txt
2•impish9208•14m ago•0 comments

Non-profit Hackclub suffers yet another data leak

https://ella.ad/projects/another-one
1•CoconutAndPie•14m ago•0 comments

From Rust to Reality: The Hidden Journey of Fetch_max

https://questdb.com/blog/rust-fetch-max-compiler-journey/
4•bluestreak•14m ago•0 comments

Qwen3-Max: Just Scale It

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=241398b9cd6353de490b0f82806c7848c5d2777d&from=research.latest-advancement...
1•meetpateltech•17m ago•0 comments

America's Next Top Model Context Protocol Server [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVrCPo8eB3A
1•gok•17m ago•0 comments

Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons

https://manus.im/blog/Context-Engineering-for-AI-Agents-Lessons-from-Building-Manus
2•helloericsf•19m ago•0 comments

Super Mario Bros. Remastered – Reveal Trailer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8WqSn4JUIQ
1•CharlesW•19m ago•0 comments

Green Lights More Often: The Secret 2018 Study of Sydney's Traffic Signals

https://jakecoppinger.com/2025/09/green-lights-more-often-the-secret-2018-study-of-sydneys-traffi...
1•jakecopp•23m ago•1 comments

A.I. Is Quietly Powering a Revolution in Weather Prediction

https://e360.yale.edu/features/artificial-intelligence-weather-forecasting
2•CharlesW•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agora – Vibe code an e-commerce store

https://www.searchagora.com/build-store
2•astronautmonkey•26m ago•0 comments

Running the Bcachefs DKMS Modules on Ubuntu Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bcachefs-617-dkms
2•voxadam•27m ago•0 comments

Bring us your LLMs: why peer review is good for AI models

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02979-9
1•CKMo•28m ago•0 comments

Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/dedicated-mobile-apps-for-vibe-coding-have-so-far-failed-to-gai...
2•toomuchtodo•30m ago•0 comments

Using Moondream AI to Make Your Pi "See" Like a Human

https://hackaday.com/2025/09/23/using-moondream-ai-to-make-your-pi-see-like-a-human/
1•amrrs•31m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Bring back Jack Tramiel via AI as a trusted advisor in new Commodore?

2•amichail•31m ago•2 comments

Martin A. Couney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Couney
2•doener•34m ago•0 comments

Vibe Coding in Practice

https://zed.dev/blog/vibe-coding-in-practice
1•nadis•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pledge boards without singups

https://www.pleeboo.com/example
1•Jean-Philipe•36m ago•0 comments

Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=99f0335c4ad9ff6153e517418d48535ab6d8afef&from=research.latest-advancement...
23•natrys•40m ago•3 comments