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seedie··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
From the atuin.sh website

> Sync your shell history to all of your machines

I think of my shell history as very machine specific. Can you give some insights on how you benefit from history sync? If you use it.

seedie··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
Great advice, but don't treat it as a checklist. If you like to go to the gym, do it. If not don't do it, leave alone every day.

Your focus should not be in improving yourself and being the best you can be. It's about getting to know yourself better.

What is it that you enjoy. And if you don't know, now's the time to find out. Maybe it's going to the gym, maybe it's finding a great breakfast place. Sitting there, having breakfast, being around other people.

Finding activities that you enjoy doing outdoors, bonus points.

You've already done the first step in asking for advice. Even though it might sound neglectible, that's a great achievement. So many people suffer from depression and have a hard time to take this first step. Congratulations!

Get out there try things, learn who you are. Maybe there's this thing that you always wanted to do places you always wanted to see. Now is the best time to do it. And if there's no such thing, you've been given a great list of things to try.

Best luck to you in this new phase of life!

seedie··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
Just because OP takes medication after a break up, doesn't mean it's a "normal" life situation for them. They could have suffered from depression before, it's not even clear if they started only after medication. The break up could also bring up some childhood trauma, like the loss of a loved one. What seems to be a normal life situation to someone might not be a normal life situation for someone else. I agree though that if no depression is diagnosed it's a bad idea to take antidepressants.
seedie··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
You gotta love the "humor" of Gemini. On Fast it told me:

> Drive. Unless you plan on pushing the car there

seedie··on Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Imo they explain pretty well what they are trying to achieve with SIMA and Genie in the Google Deepmind Podcast[1]. They see it as the way to get to AGI by letting AI agents learn for themselves in simulated worlds. Kind of like how they let AlphaGo train for Go in an enormous amount of simulated games.

[1] https://youtu.be/n5x6yXDj0uo

seedie··on Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting
You can still pipe bat output as it falls back to unformated output when it detects a non-interactive terminal. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat?tab=readme-ov-file#file-conca...
seedie··on I still like Sublime Text in 2025
Love the simplicity of your to to-do list syntax highlighter in comparison to todo.txt. That's more how my brain works, as simple as possible. Especially your take on the due date vs. date when you plan to do it. Will definitely try it out.
seedie··on Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web
What they mean is that on a standard german keyboard layout to type []{}~ one would press

  [ Alt Gr-8
  ] Alt Gr-9
  { Alt Gr 7
  } Alt Gr 0
  ~ Alt Gr +
While on an Apple keyboard you use

  [ ⌥-5
  ] ⌥-6
  { ⌥-8
  } ⌥-9
  ~ ⌥-n
seedie··on Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT
Congrats on the launch. I'll take a closer look soon and only played around a bit.

Would be great if you could extend the documentation.

If you're not open sourcing the app, what about at least open sourcing the documentation?

One thing I'd like to extend is on https://www.grafychat.com/d/docs/intro

3. Configure Ollama server to make sure it allows connection from grafychat.

That's not very helpful. Something along the line Set the environment variable OLLAMA_ORIGINS to "https://www.grafychat.com" and rerun "ollama serve". Use your custom host if your using the self-host option.

  ```sh
  OLAMA_ORIGINS="https://www.grafychat.com" ollama serve
  ```
Is not that much more text but makes it way easier for people to go and try out your app with ollama.
seedie··on Figma OSS Alternative
What I usually do for Open Source, instead of browsing the website, check on GitHub. https://github.com/penpot/penpot

The license on GitHub is featured prominently as MPL-2.0

seedie··on Odd Elastohydrodynamics: Non-Reciprocal Living Material in a Viscous Fluid
"This study explores a violation of Newton's third law in motile active agents, by considering non-reciprocal mechanical interactions known as odd elasticity. By extending the description of odd elasticity to a nonlinear regime, we present a general framework for the swimming dynamics of active elastic materials in low-Reynolds-number fluids, such as wavelike patterns observed in eukaryotic cilia and flagella."
seedie··on How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
I was wrong thruflo pasted the correct link

You are probably right. The Instagram Engineering blog [0] points to the Fabric documentation on Read the Docs [1] which is empty.

"Read the docs" links to the GitHub repo [2] but it's 404 and even the GitHub organization zwsyff888 is gone.

[0] https://instagram-engineering.com/what-powers-instagram-hund...

[1] https://fabric.readthedocs.io

[2] https://github.com/zwsyff888/fabric

seedie··on Linux Lite: Easy to Use Free Linux Operating System
It's not about having ads or not. As I explained elsewhere it is the ad to content ratio.

There are so many ads and they sometimes blend with the content that it's hard to find information. That was my experience. YMMV

seedie··on Linux Lite: Easy to Use Free Linux Operating System
Yes, using an adblocker would be a way for me to not see ads.

But I'm not using one because I usually don't mind seeing ads as it's the main income for most sites.

In this case the ad to content ratio is just too much for my taste. Too many ads and not enough distinction between ads and content.

BTW I tried to add more constructive criticism in another reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653500 as the parent is flagged dead by now it might not be easily visible

seedie··on Show HN: Digger – Open Source Terraform automation and collaboration tool
One of the main reasons for us to use a terraform collaboration tool is to easily manage state files.

Would be awesome if they find a way to integrate state management.

seedie··on Linux Lite: Easy to Use Free Linux Operating System
If open source makes money thats great. But if your site contains more ads than content I don't spend my time finding out how you differ from other linux distros. Being "Free" is definitely not enough.

But I get it, that was no constructive criticism so I try to do better.

- the ad/content ratio is way to high

- too many unnecessary animations and the choice of colors make me think its bad design. And i transfer this opinion on the main product.

- its not clear at all to me why I should choose this distro over all the other free, easy to use linux distributions

- all of the above points drive me away from spending more time on the site to find out more about the project

This is highly subjective, but it seems like I'm not the only one struggling to find the information I want in a time I'm willing to spend.

(Edited to fix formatting and typos)

seedie··on Linux Lite: Easy to Use Free Linux Operating System
With all the ads on the page it looks more like a scam then a Linux distro to me. On mobile half the page size is filled with ads. Ad, some content, donation links, some content, ad, some content...

I just can't take it seriously

seedie··on Ask HN: Cyber Security folks – what are your biggest pain points?
My biggest pain point is translating the internal compliance/security requirements into technical measures and monitoring them in real time. Not only infrastructure but also application security. In addition templating solutions and make them easily integratable.
seedie··on I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (2016)
FWIW, whitespace changes can easily be filtered out in Github's PR view.
seedie··on Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
There is another, way more important, difference. You know your friends for who they are. You know the criminals only for what they do.
seedie··on Ask HN: Is cross platform app development a thing?
What would you say are the differences between the app categories, why does it make a difference? Because some rely more on os specifics? I don't know nearly nothing about app dev so I try to understand.
seedie··on Show HN: I built a web app for learning Vim from the browser as a 17-year-old
As a long time vim user I wonder whats in it for me, so more detail on the 12 available lessons would help. And the promise "to become a 10x developer in no time." is, in my opinion, a bit over the top. I wish mastering a text editor would result in being a "10x dev" :D Only left to say, congrats for launching vimninja.com!
seedie··on Make your CLI demos a breeze with zero stress and zero mistakes
For live demos "its a live" [0] by @stavros is also great.

From the Readme:

It's a Live lets you write commands and keystrokes in a file, which it will then read and open a new terminal for you. Every time you press a key, It's a Live will write one character from the file into the terminal, making it look like you're typing every single command with the practiced ease of a consummate professional.

[0] https://gitlab.com/stavros/itsalive

seedie··on Bizarre and unusual uses of DNS
Yes, the domain to query is current.cvd.clamav.net
seedie··on NetHack 3.6.7
Your browser assumes that the server is reachable on port 80 if you are browsing a http site or port 443 if you are using https. The server mentioned above runs on port 8080. So the Browser needs this information which is then added to the url
seedie··on Show HN: Hacker News Without News
minimaxir's "List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors" proposes something similar. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flame-...

But I don't know if this is based on evidence.

seedie··on How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?
Not GP but I might throw in my opinion. While you focused on the crime itself GP focused on the person committing the crime. That way I can agree to both of you. While the crime of fraud is less morally wrong than armed robbery to me, the person committing the robbery very likely has a very different background and less choices. It might seem to be the only way to feed their family or a very natural way as they were grown up with it. While for fraud its about having more and more money, mostly for living a luxury life.
seedie··on I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond
Thats true if HISTCONTROL is set to `ignorespace` or `ignoreboth`

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Vari...

seedie··on Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
What came to my mind is a blog post[0] by Julia Evans

Not exactly what you had in mind but might still be interesting.

[0] https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/04/12/a-list-of-new-ish--command-l...

seedie··on Eierlegende Wollmilchsau (2011)
I don't see the negative connotation in "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau". It's more a "It has so many features and is the nonplusultra so it just can't be real"

Maybe it is understood differently depending on the part of germany you're from.

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