Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it
Plus: how to stop renting InDesign for documents.
Good morning, builders. Today’s lead cleared 69 points on Hacker News. Here’s what moved in build-it-yourself over the last day — every item links to its source.
Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it
- The story
- 69 points and 38 comments on Hacker News · github.com.
- The signal
- open source
Stop renting: InDesign for documents, Word
Build your own document engine. Typesetting used to require a publisher. Now it's a CLI.
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Every ranked document & pdf engine project →How this was made. Stories: Hacker News and Lobsters posts from the last 30 hours that clear an engagement floor and carry a build-it-yourself signal, ranked by points × signal strength. Climbing: stars gained over seven days from nightly GitHub snapshots. Spotlight: rotates daily through every direction with a paid incumbent.