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Learn Lil in 10 Minutes

https://beyondloom.com/decker/learnlil.html
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

FSFE reports trouble with payment provider

https://lwn.net/Articles/1063287/
1•t-3•1m ago•0 comments

25 Years of Eggs

https://www.john-rush.com/posts/eggs-25-years-20260219.html
1•avyfain•2m ago•0 comments

Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15

https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/meta-will-shut-down-vr-horizon-worlds-access-in-june-222028919.html
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•0 comments

CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2026/03/17/cve-2026-3888-important-snap-f...
2•askl•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you handle payments for AI agents?

1•bahaghazghazi•2m ago•0 comments

Fuck It, I'm European

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0945/2329/4031/files/12F_Fuck_It_I_m_European.pdf?v=1771760064
1•doener•3m ago•0 comments

Does technology make people touch each other less? (2015)

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31026410
1•simonebrunozzi•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Loom, a Component Framework for Go

https://loomui.dev/blog/introducing-loom/
1•AnatoleLucet•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SentrySearch – Semantic search over dashcam footage

https://github.com/ssrajadh/sentrysearch
1•sohamrj•3m ago•0 comments

Beam Metrics in ClickHouse

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The Rise of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators

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2•gaws•4m ago•0 comments

Building a Pipeline for Agentic Malware Analysis

https://synthesis.to/2026/03/18/agentic_malware_analysis.html
2•oneron•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AgentPay – Let AI agents pay for APIs autonomously

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Ask HN: Are MiniMax Models Scams?

1•XCSme•5m ago•0 comments

The Last IT Guy

https://suthakamal.substack.com/p/the-last-it-guy
1•suthakamal•6m ago•1 comments

Qianfan-OCR – 4B open-source VLM replacing multi-stage OCR pipelines

https://huggingface.co/baidu/Qianfan-OCR
1•dongdaxiang•6m ago•0 comments

Startup CEO Gökçe Güven, the Founder and CEO of Kalder Inc. Charged with Fraud

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/startup-ceo-charged-fraud
2•randycupertino•6m ago•1 comments

AI set to map risks of future climate disasters

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00835-y
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1•KerryJones•8m ago•0 comments

ICO Enforcement Actions: Public Bodies Get Reprimands, Companies Get Fines

https://ciphercue.com/blog/ico-enforcement-two-tier-system
1•adulion•8m ago•0 comments

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Is X.com currently degraded?

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Accessing Hardware in Rust

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2•jandeboevrie•12m ago•0 comments

Apple pushing back on 'vibe coding' iPhone apps

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4•gennarro•13m ago•0 comments

Claude Code reverse-engineered itself. Two subagents refused. It called them shy

https://www.skelpo.com/blog/claude-code-reverse-engineering
2•amlug•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: BlacksmithAI – AI‑Assisted Penetration Testing Framework (Beta, Free)

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Nvidia NemoClaw

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2•hmokiguess•15m ago•0 comments

Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/snowflake-ai-escapes-sandbox-and-executes-malware
2•ozgune•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PixelSwift – Image compression that never uploads your files

https://pixelswift.site
1•zhangshuaikang•17m ago•1 comments
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Show HN: Studio – a drag-and-drop PDF workspace for multi-document workflows

https://localpdf.online/app/studio
1•ulinycoin•1h ago
Hi HN, I'm the creator of LocalPDF (https://localpdf.online).

The thing I'm sharing here is Studio: https://localpdf.online/app/studio

Most PDF apps are built around isolated tools — merge, split, rotate, delete pages, edit text, and so on. That works fine for one-off tasks, but a lot of real PDF work isn't one-off. Usually it's more like: open a few files, compare them, pull pages from one into another, remove junk, reorder things, make a couple of edits, then export the result.

That workflow always felt awkward to me in traditional PDF editors because you keep bouncing between separate tools and separate screens.

So I built Studio around a different model — a drag-and-drop workspace for PDFs. Instead of doing one tool at a time, you can:

- Drop multiple PDF files into one workspace - Arrange documents on a canvas - Drag pages between documents - Copy, reorder, and delete pages - Edit inside the same working area - Export when you're done

Everything still runs locally in the browser on the user's machine — no file uploads, privacy by default, performance depends on the user's hardware, not a remote queue.

Under the hood: the UI is a canvas-style workspace, page operations are composed locally, and the output PDF is rebuilt on-device rather than sent to a backend for processing.

I've also been testing it on larger documents, because this kind of interface only matters if it still feels usable once the file stops being a tiny 3-page PDF.

What I was aiming for was something that feels less like filling out forms and more like actually working with documents.

I'd especially love feedback on: 1. Does this feel meaningfully different from existing PDF editors? 2. Is drag-and-drop organization actually a better mental model for PDF work? 3. If you work with large PDFs, what workflows would you stress test first?

Happy to answer technical questions too.

Comments

ulinycoin•1h ago
A few implementation details in case they're useful:

- LocalPDF runs fully in the browser — files are not uploaded to a server - The Studio UI is built as a canvas-style workspace with React Konva - Export/rebuild happens locally rather than through a server roundtrip - Studio is aimed at multi-document workflows, not just one-off conversions - I've been testing it on larger PDFs too, but performance still depends a lot on the user's machine because the whole point is local-first processing

The part I'm most curious about is whether the workspace/canvas model feels genuinely useful, or whether most people still prefer traditional tool-by-tool PDF UX.