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Re:OpenClaw Is the Right Idea with the Wrong Defaults on Thursday February 26, 2026 @04:05PM (#47171993)
I recently wrote about the PKM automation stack I run on a Mac + VPS with Tailscale, background agents, and Claude Code skills. A few people pointed out it's basically OpenClaw. They're right — same architecture, very different security posture. This post compares the defaults.
Re:Show HN: I built a search engine for grokking trends on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @07:08AM (#40644836)
Please provide more information about what this does before immediately asking for me to set up an account.
Re:This Message Does Not Exist on Saturday June 01, 2024 @08:35PM (#40550378)
There is no Antimemetics Division
Re:Why am I dreaming I have an exam I didn't study for? on Thursday May 30, 2024 @11:15AM (#40524727)
This is the more interesting question, I think. 30+ years later still having dreams about exams for classes I forgot to drop, exams I didn’t study for, etc etc.

Having dreams about upcoming exams seems obvious compared to why a lot of us have dreams years and decades after your college years are over.

You may not have intended this use case, but Bebop serves as a really nice and quick front end for getting notes into Obsidian. I just set the Bebop save directory to the same as my Obsidian Vault inbox and I’m good to go. A widget would be a great add to quickly add content from the home screen.
Re:Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @07:04PM (#40373430)
Came here to be “that guy”. Never had a single cavity in over 50years of being alive and have really bad dental care habits. I brush once a day for about 30 seconds, don’t really floss and have gone up to 6 years between cleanings.

I don’t eat a lot of processed foods or foods high in sugar, but I don’t completely abstain from them either.

Nothing to do with Lumina directly, but I’ve always been curious about my dental microbiome and how something about it is different from others.

I often worry about new products like Lumina upsetting whatever balance I’ve got going on.

Re:Kilroy Was Here on Sunday March 31, 2024 @02:15PM (#39886595)
Everywhere
Re:Show HN: I built an open-source data copy tool called ingestr on Thursday February 29, 2024 @10:49AM (#39550946)
Looks really interesting and definitely a use case I face over and over again. The name just breaks my brain, I want it to be an R package but it’s Python. Just gives me a mild headache.
It’s like the old consulting adage: “If you’re not part of the solution, there’s money to be made by prolonging the problem.”
Re:Man who shoveled new channel into Lake Michigan convicted on Monday February 12, 2024 @11:32AM (#39346850)
4, don’t forget Waze
Yeah, it’s GOST not GHOST. maybe they spell the acronym as GhOST or G(h)OST to add to the number of skipped characters.
Re:Show HN: iOS app – Random thoughts to clean text on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:49PM (#37055255)
Both the “Get the TestFlight” buttons lead to a Stripe checkout for nanodevpro.com totaling $79. At least on mobile they do.
Re:How the World’s Most Famous Scream Was Recovered on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:02AM (#36998235)
Before somebody stole their cinnamon roll.
Re:Show HN: AI Collected, Human Curated News Digest on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:51AM (#36941265)
Tiny suggestion, add the time zone of the daily update to the 8am on your website. It appears to be Eastern (UTC-4 at time of comment) but this could be due to fact that I’m in the Eastern time zone.
Cherry-picking maybe? You’re selecting only the data that supports your argument.
Re:Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:13AM (#36163278)
It does. arc’s my daily driver. Best vertical tabs implementation I’ve run across (for me).
Re:You Have a New Memory on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:42AM (#35638603)
I am genuinely concerned about the author's mental well-being. This is not an ad hominem attack. Based on the limited sample size of this one article, I am genuinely worried. I sincerely hope they are aware of the help available and are willing to seek it. As someone who also struggles with mental health and has recently sought help beyond medication, I have become more attuned to mental health issues in others.
Oddly not paywalled for me but yes, the article is based on that preprint.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:49AM (#33707013)
I usually rephrase it as “getting run over by the lottery” or “winning a bus”. Just to be different/humorous/less morbid.
Re:Dissecting a Dummy Promo MiniDisc on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:28AM (#33655192)
Exactly why I had one as well. I never felt more sci-if than using my MD player. I actually miss that thing. The build quality was amazing.
Re:Apple Rankings on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:24PM (#33645945)
I’ll come to the defense of Arkansas Blacks. They are definitely better than Red Delicious. They’re just really hard and quite tart with a faint green flesh. Red Delicious are mealy and tasteless.

I love the Arkansas Blacks, but they wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Re:Ask HN: How did you learn to draw diagrams? on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:24AM (#33358964)
> draw real time as you explain, which allows you to draw based on audience understanding and what you want to focus on

This is critical. While I took formal flow charting and diagramming in college, it can’t replace real time diagramming as you explain.

When I was in consulting, we would often project Visio diagrams on a whiteboard and then extend them using markers. As we moved through the explanation process. My Visio jockey would the transcribe the whiteboard notation to Visio diagrams once we all agreed on the approach. This allowed us to collaborate with the flexibility of a whiteboard while confirming and capturing the final documentation as we went.

Re:Penguin of the Year on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:29AM (#32778957)
Martin’s just happy to be here.
Re:Skip the exit interview when you leave your job on Monday June 13, 2022 @06:31PM (#31732593)
Pick up that can!
Re:Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories? on Monday June 06, 2022 @09:08AM (#31639969)
I saw that the adaptation existed but immediately thought, there’s no way they could get it “right”
Re:Show HN: Worble, a Wordle-inspired word game on Sunday June 05, 2022 @10:10PM (#31636713)
As the word changes, do the green letters I may have gotten always remain green? They remain valid letters and always stay in the same location?
Re:Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories? on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:38PM (#31623099)
I have not played Disco yet, but have been tempted. Thanks for the comparison to The City & The City, easily one of my favorite books and such a mind bend. If you’ve not watched Counterpart with J.K. Simons is very similar in feel, to me at least. Shame it was never finished.
Re:A beauty therapist becomes a developer on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:51AM (#31449101)
Re:A Fast Excel Formula Parser and Evaluator on Sunday May 15, 2022 @08:56AM (#31387278)
It seems interesting but their acquisition by Databricks stopped development on Bamboo last year.

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