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This sounds like you want a magic solution.

You want to find your "tax" related things. Each time you create something, you put it in the "tax" directory. The same with photos: you organize them once in the input stage or periodically, and then you can search for them easily later on.

For text, if the content of the file is what is relevant, grep/ripgrep are your friends.

File type/name, find/fd are your friends.

Date of creation? A combination of ls and find.

For image, video and sound it is more difficult (impossible?) to search by content.

File names and directories are simple, and it works as well as you make it work; it does not matter the type or content of the file.

Do governments /military process their vehicles at end of use to erase that data or is it available for whoever gets their hands on it?
Re:You have to rank 5 projects before you can post your own on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:19PM (#47819199)
Nice idea, but not my interests, I think.

In the top 10 leaderboard, only 1 element does not mention LLM.

Re:REST in Peace on Saturday April 11, 2026 @04:50PM (#47733924)
Learn something new every day.

Something that comes to mind as a "problem" is that popular DBs are not designed to manage this (at least I do not think so), so you can have a DB and violate the principle of only appending, and the DB will let you.

And how difficult is it to migrate to this model or away? Although this is the same "problem" with any model, I suppose.

> Notice that in all cases time spent sleeping or otherwise waiting shouldn’t be counted, though you probably shouldn’t do that in your code in the first place.

I thought the time your CPU waits around doing nothing is something you want to measure.

If your algorithm has better "mathematical" scaling with big N but is worse in real world scenarios, it "failed".

Or maybe the application of this is another?

Re:Take better notes, by hand on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:12PM (#47589574)
I wonder if this is age dependent. Do young (15-25) people take notes by hand?

If I do anything to do with math, I need paper; anything else is in markdown.

Recommendation: There are folders that you can add pages to; that way you do not worry about space.

Why are all images just wrong? Text superimposed with shapes, random shapes in random places, and a clock with the 12 in the center instead of in the 12 position.

Now I wonder if this is just AI slop.

Re:Stop picking my Go version for me on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:35PM (#47581419)
But how do you know which minimum version you need?

Install the latest version of Go and once you are finished with the library, downgrade the version of Go by one until you get a compilation error?

Re:Open Source becomes standard in Germany's Administration on Saturday March 21, 2026 @02:54PM (#47470064)
> SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) – a machine-readable directory of all software components and dependencies used

This sounds like a really good idea all around, not only for open source.

I would have expected more people to want the position.
Re:Ask HN: Is Another Editor Needed? on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:39PM (#47380926)
You see the complaints; people rarely praise a product; they just use it.

An IDE is a tool. What do you want to use the tool for? Put that as a priority and say no to everything else.

If the IDE is for you, look at the other editors and pick and choose each thing they do and decide how (or if) you want to do it. Are you happy with the result? That is a win. If somebody comes along with ideas/complaints, tell them no.

Re:SSL/TLS and PKI History on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:39PM (#47372418)
Really interesting read.

Weird libressl.org not being a secure website according to brave mobile, but on helium desktop it is secure.

I pity people that pay for a service and get ads anyway.

I do not know what is wrong with ads; only two or three times ever did I saw an ad and though "uh that is nice" and went to search for the product, mostly they all look like scams.

But since so much money moves through it, I suppose they work.

Re:English Is a Programming Language on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:09PM (#47372213)
Everything mentioned applies to human programmers too, but we still get bugs and downtime in production.

Are LLMs more important so companies will pay to have these guardrails when they currently do not have them for their humans?

Re:C++26 Safety Features Won't Save You on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:07PM (#47372202)
From the outside I see (do not write manually managed memory).

C/C++, you SHOULD do X to prevent certain bugs.

Rust, you MUST do X to prevent certain bugs.

Humans are lazy, error-prone, unskilled, etc. When I decide to get to a more low-level language, I will choose the language that forces me to good behavior.

Re:How age standardization make health metrics comparable on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:03PM (#47372172)
Nice info.

Japan is either purposely chosen or an unfortunate choice for the example topic.

Does anybody want to guess what happened before the 2000 that Japan cancer rates were so high?

The only language companies understand is $$$; if you do not like their practice of ToS, do not use the app.

I have never read a ToS. I wonder how many of the services I use I would continue using if I did read them (probably most if not all).

The problem I see with all the rewrites is, long term, will the people that created the project stick around 5 or 10 years from now?

Will companies be more willing to donate time/money if they can actually monetize a product built on top of an MIT license?

I think right now the answer is "not enough"

Re:Revisiting Time: UT1, UTC, NTP and NTS on Friday March 13, 2026 @01:38PM (#47367330)
Really informative.

Quite inconsiderate of Earth not cooperating with our obsession with precision.

Re:Htmx Infinite Scroll on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:06PM (#47290509)
I mostly do not like infinity scroll because your position on the page is often metadata (from the point of view of the user).

It has its place.

e.g., the blog allows you to manually indicate a point on the index, but otherwise you "are" always at the top.

Re:The Shady World of IP Leasing on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:04PM (#47290490)
Are these problems we want to fix?

A direct example of this is the situation of Spain and soccer.

Re:What canceled my Go context? on Saturday March 07, 2026 @01:54PM (#47290401)
I am new enough to programming that I actually have no concrete idea what a context is; I just use it when a library asks for it.

> lemoncucumber

> it can be tempting to keep adding layer upon layer of wrapping resulting in an unwieldy error string that’s practically a hand-rolled stacktrace

I thought this was the whole reason to wrap errors, to know where they passed up the chain.

Funny how it seems no matter the subject, if Go is involved, errors get discussed.

Re:UUID package coming to Go standard library on Saturday March 07, 2026 @01:50PM (#47290369)
Wonder about the opinion of the maintainers of the Google package. Will they put it on maintenance mode or continue developing it like usual?
I do not really use JS, but making a registry for the language of the web and your images cut off on mobile is just sad.
Re:No right to relicense this project on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:31PM (#47265331)
You have to look from two sides this Moral: What is right or wrong? If they wanted to change the license, they could have made another project with another name, and nobody would care, but they wanted the reputation of the project.

Legal: How much are you willing to spend on litigation? The only real "protection" by copyright is in court.

Re:Linux Signalfd Is Useless on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:30PM (#47265319)
This is over my head, but it is interesting to read how low-level things are still considered "broken".

Are there few people that actually know this or consensus or backward compatibility that keep it "broken"?

Wonder if this is better or worse now that people prefer to have an LLM write their regex or use more JS.
Re:Bet on German Train Delays on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:24PM (#47265251)
I was convinced it was a scam till I read the about, a nice thing for the locals.

In Argentina, you can have delays too, as in "there are no trains today".

There should be more talk about keeping local copies of all dependencies and updating them once per organization as needed, and then all other CI/CD pulls from that local copy.
Re:The Bet on Juniors Just Got Better on Thursday February 26, 2026 @12:42PM (#47169334)
The problem is, why bother with the "valley of regret" if somebody else can foot the bill? There is more supply of developers than demand, so companies can always ask for juniors with 5 years of experience.

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