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fsargent commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
ciju · 16 days ago
https://finbodhi.com — It helps you track, understand, and plan your personal finances — with a double-entry accounting. You own your financial data. It’s local-first, syncs across devices, and everything’s encrypted in transit. Supports multiple-accounts (track as a family or even as an advisor), multi-currency, a custom sheet/calculator to operate on your accounts (calculate taxes etc) and much more.

Soon, we will have benchmarking capability. You would be able to compare your networth growth with inflation, compare your investment returns with benchmark etc. We would support both nav and value based benchmark. The topic is interesting in itself, and somehow, not emphasized/available in most tools.

Asset price fetching and benchmarking works best for Indian markets. We would like to build better support for international assets and benchmarks, but haven't figured how to get the data.

NOTE: you can try demo without signup, but it doesn't work in Firefox Incognito mode.

fsargent · 16 days ago
Recent expat and have been looking for something multi currency native. Thanks!
fsargent commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
fsargent · 16 days ago
https://approval.vote / https://ranked.vote Both svelteJS static apps that render approval voting and ranked choice voting elections.

I got frustrated on how difficult it is to compare many elections using alternative voting methods against each other, so ended up extending a friends project, adding more results, details and statistics.

Just added datasette lite to the approval voting site. it’s pretty cool to query the SQLite db in the browser. https://approval.vote/data

fsargent commented on I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery   fulghum.io/album-cards... · Posted by u/jordanf
majkinetor · 3 months ago
There is a technical difference though - yolo keeps the audio on the cards, while this project uses NFC tags to select locally stored audio. To have truly collectable experience, yolo type of thing is the only choice.
fsargent · 3 months ago
Yoto doesn’t keep the audio on the cards, all the audio is stored on the cloud and the NFC cards just have a link to the album. The Yoto can’t play a card it hasn’t already seen before without connecting to the Wi-Fi and downloading it.
fsargent commented on Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers   swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-de... · Posted by u/mfi
pferde · 3 months ago
Cool, now do loud motorbikes in cities. Those things, several times louder than cars, should be illegal anywhere but on isolated highways.
fsargent · 3 months ago
Already done. Switzerland is a civilised country.

https://lenews.ch/2025/01/17/switzerlands-strict-new-road-no...

fsargent commented on Approval Voting in St. Louis: What the Cast Vote Records Reveal   felixsargent.com/democrac... · Posted by u/fsargent
fsargent · 4 months ago
This is the sixth ever election in the United States using Approval Voting, and the first ever approval voting election where we have the Cast Vote Records from the election. These records reveal fascinating details on St. Louis voters’ preferences.

AMA

For the data itself see https://approval.vote/report/us/mo/st_louis/2025/03/mayor

fsargent commented on The Riddle of the Lovers' Basket   barycentre.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/kadrek
edwcross · 5 months ago
Two possibilities: - The basket has its own weight; - They are older, and so are their muscles, therefore the basket "feels" heavier.
fsargent · 5 months ago
Or lastly they’re on a different planet with higher gravity.
fsargent commented on As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn't meet a seal   irishtimes.com/opinion/an... · Posted by u/austinallegro
phito · 6 months ago
I feel like I'm having a stroke trying to read this title
fsargent · 6 months ago
Stroking a Labrador is one of life’s few pleasures.
fsargent commented on Spaced repetition memory system (2024)   notes.andymatuschak.org/S... · Posted by u/gasull
golly_ned · 7 months ago
Dropping a product recommendation -- my favorite spaced repetition + notetaking + learning app: https://www.remnote.com/

I'm not affiliated, just a big booster. For those familiar with Anki it follows the same conventions. It has an excellent system for managing cards. Adding cards is as easy as writing a bullet point: [front of card] == [back of card]. They got the ergonomics right and clearly know the space very well; it has the right keyboard accessibility and shortcuts and navigation. It supports the basics you'd expect like cloze deletions (fill-in-the-blank), image occlusion (cover up parts of an image). It manages assets like PDFs and images. It uses FSRS (the best SRS scheduling algorithm atm).

It has the best (optional) AI integration into a product I've seen except for the usual code-generation suspects. I'm learning spanish and can type into a bullet point something like "el vaquero ==< [tab]" and have the translation automatically generated for me into a forward and reverse card. I'm learning math and can cloze-delete parts of latex equations; the AI can very frequently generate excellent and accurate latex equations, which I can make small edits to as I'd like. These kinds of bonuses make taking live flashcard-based notes during my spanish tutoring sessions and math-based parts of classes feasible.

It's less low-level configurable than Anki and more "works out of the box" with a smaller extension system. I've had enough of trying to fiddle with Anki. Overall just excellent -- I'm not affiliated in any way. Development is very fast. Release note videos are incredible, minor updates occur ~weekly. I've run into a few bugs, especially when I was traveling overseas where internet isn't strong, but overall very pleased with it.

fsargent · 7 months ago
Thanks for recommending it! I’ve had the same issues with Anki and am shocked there aren’t more clones considering it’s open source. Excited to try remnote.
fsargent commented on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken   whichyr.com/... · Posted by u/trymas
fsargent · 8 months ago
Now is there anything which will take this, run it through ML and then find a date for all of my scanned family photos?

u/fsargent

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