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Re:Do you even need a database? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @11:24PM (#47788315)
Yeah, files as a database is fun, but I find you ultimately reinvent the wheel when sqlite is pretty battle tested, free and easier to get right or scale up.

I can't talk though because I actually find myself doing this a lot

Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @11:21PM (#47788291)
This is actually a really interesting use case for a local model.

The writing might be a bit mediocre but it would capture all the information.

Parent post really stumbled on a great idea here.

Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Sunday January 11, 2026 @05:31PM (#46581070)
It can be very device specific unfortunately. Thinkpad tend to work quote well. I had a Framework that my wife took from me and it's truly fantastic, works out of the box.
Re:How Markdown Took over the World on Friday January 09, 2026 @11:13PM (#46562683)
The key bindings out of the box with something like Doom emacsx is a big selling point too.

I have not been able to get markdown to walk in Vim, anywhere near as well.

Well, that was a knowledge gap, thank you! I certainly need to review PCA but python makes it a bit too easy.
Re:Web development is fun again on Sunday January 04, 2026 @05:07PM (#46492806)
I too have found this. However, I absolutely love being able to mock up a larger idea in 30 minutes to assess feasibility as a proof of concept before I sink a few hours into it.
I find it helpful to view least as fitting the noise to a Gaussian distribution.
Re:The Inevitability of the Borrow Checker on Friday February 07, 2025 @06:03PM (#42978528)
Unless a library developer decides to abort on panic in the `toml`, then i don’t believe you can unwind.
Re:Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:24AM (#42801576)
Although, tbf, some libraries are documented better than others.

Also, local llms with an agentic tool can be a lot of fun to quickly prototype things. Quality can be hit or miss.

Hopefully the work trickles down to local models long-term.

Re:Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:21AM (#42801563)
How have you found R1? I've been meaning to try it with Aider's Architect mode.

Have you tried the 7b?

Re:Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @05:13AM (#23905437)
I haven't been on here for long, but I must say, I'm really amazed at how friendly this community is! HackerNews really sets itself apart.
Re:Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:50AM (#23897233)
I’m not sure what you mean.
Re:Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:27AM (#23897074)
Oh you’re absolutely right, what a silly mistake on my end, I put it up on my GitHub here, check it out:

https://github.com/RyanGreenup/cadmus

The original Reddit post is here:

https://reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/hs7g8r/shell_scrip...

Re:Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes on Monday July 20, 2020 @07:39AM (#23896808)
I couldn't agree more about the difficulty of grokking somebody else's tool.

The thing is though it took me a long time to get to the level where I could put something like this together and I wish I could have had some sort of guidance earlier on.

That's why I've tried to make my implementation modular, so others can take the things that they haven't figured out from mine and implement it in there workflow.

I should get around to documenting it so others can take replicate, imitate or fork it.

Re:Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes on Monday July 20, 2020 @03:24AM (#23895499)
Recently there was [a thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23883270) on Notable and many commented that they were upset that it was no longer open source.

This is something that actually concerned me and so I started using a lot of `bash` scripts to emulate behaviour that I like in Notable, that way I could use Notable without the fear of being locked it but I could try and emulate its behavior in a way that more suited my workflow.

I put the script I use [up on my GitHub](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23883270) and I recently [made a Reddit post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23883270). I thought maybe you guys could find them helpful or offer feedback?