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useful

Instructional design tool optimized for self-hosted websites leveraging AI

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Instructional design tool optimized for self-hosted websites leveraging AI

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-03-09 13:56:57 UTC to 2026-04-01 15:48:10 UTC.

012026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 92026-03-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 202026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 1

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Mar 92026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-10 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 102026-03-10 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 112026-03-11 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 122026-03-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 132026-03-13 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 142026-03-14 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 152026-03-15 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 162026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 172026-03-17 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 182026-03-18 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 192026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 202026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 212026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 222026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 232026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 242026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 252026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 262026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 272026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 282026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 292026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 302026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 312026-03-31 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 12026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-02 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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hireme1234·Apr 1, 2026
Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: TypeScript, React, Vue, Node.js, Python, Rust (active), Linux, Android (NDK), OpenCV Résumé/CV: https://louisfoster.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/louis-foster-software Email: contact@louisfoster.com Over ten years as an engineer and team lead at startups. Product-minded, design experience, and always in product teams. Most recently I was Engineering Manager and Technical Product Owner at Skribble (Switzerland, remote). Setting architecture direction, owning the roadmap, and staying hands-on with the team building the core product. Before that I was the first Berlin hire at super.AI in 2018, where I built their customer-facing data labeling platform. On the side I'm building a hardware/software ecosystem around the electric bass: AI-generated real-time DSP, OpenCV-bas
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ed TUIs, DevEx. Some of my recent side projects: Low-bandwidth course-builder: https://github.com/ohmstone/useful Multi-device cv-based TUI systems on android: https://github.com/ohmstone/android-multi-device-demo
In Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
tonelord·Mar 9, 2026
While building some software tools for my bass guitar I wanted to create some kind of video series or whatever to share it with others. I have been using online courses and youtube forever and they all have converged on a similar format. Basically, adapt a textbook to slides and add voiceover. Sometimes they'll be animated. Not for everyone but I like it for passive learning. Being a web developer I always thought video was a strange way to deliver this information - you can't even copy the text! Videos are also hard to make and heavy on bandwidth. So after iterating on different approaches to this over the last few years, I finally started on a new iteration called useful. Currently on rev1, so early days: https://github.com/ohmstone/useful/tree/rev-1 There are a few more things I want to add to it but I want to get back to what I was do
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ing (the bass guitar stuff). So I will make few of these website-as-video courses based on my projects to try and prove the concept. Some of the nerdier features useful has: - Uses state of the art CPU-based TTS with voice cloning, realistic enough to not be distracting - Very simple markup language to create the visuals - Extensible slide content with simple plugin system - Full website export with complete SEO/social metadata - Export is a PWA, so it caches nicely and can work offline - Self-hostable - Export is optimized for low bandwidth, so it loads way faster than a video and uses <1/10th of the data when served with brotli - Minimal dependencies Beyond my own use-case I figured it might be useful for others creating courses. One stretch-goal would be for people to turn what they are learning via LLMs into low-bandwidth courses like this so we don't have people burning energy asking the same questions and watching the same 4K videos.
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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