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Are you aware of any app comparable to StreetComplete for iOS?

I feel these vibes whilst living in Munich (or Bavaria, for that matter). Most stores / shops are forbidden to operate on Sundays or past 8pm, that is enshrined in an ancient law. If you want to open a new store and you are willing to operate Sundays, or perhaps until 10pm, and your employees are also willing to work then...nope, can't do it. Would get ahead of the competition. Not fair, blablabla.

thiagowfxon A History of IDEs at Google

Initially I had thought so too. But later I realized that it’s quite easy to do so when you force-deprecate the old product. There was no real choice, the old IDE simply stopped working after a certain cutoff date. Adoption metrics felt forced and pushed, but were presented as if users were actively and willingly choosing the newer IDE.

thiagowfxon I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

My take on this: https://github.com/thiagowfx/pancake/tree/master/git_world

thiagowfxon Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

Exhaustive list of all blog directories I’ve heard of: https://perrotta.dev/2025/05/blog-directories/ (includes ooh.directory)

thiagowfxon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://perrotta.dev — “today I learned”, Linux, open source, CNCF, programming, gen AI / LLMs, a little bit of everything.

thiagowfxon Ask HN: Share your personal website

Blog directories: https://perrotta.dev/2025/05/blog-directories/

thiagowfxon Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

Since it is an agent, I wonder why they didn’t go with “Claude Coworker” instead.

On the other hand, it’s not “Claude Coder”, then it’s at least consistent.

thiagowfxon Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

Creative idea, however most calendar software clients offer meeting start times rounded to increments of 15 min.

Setting meetings to start at :05 or :20 or :35 or :50 adds friction.

Defaults matter for habit formation.

There is your golden opportunity to point out internal Gemini to the Calendar codebase and make it become reality.

thiagowfxon Oh My Zsh adds bloat

https://grml.org/zsh/

Simple, sensible defaults.

Ships with the Arch Linux installation ISO.

thiagowfxon How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code

The blog post starts with:

> I’m using OpenAI here, but this works with any LLM provider

Have you noticed there’s no OpenAI in the post?

thiagowfxon Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

It is amazing to see a modern take on LaTeX.

Previously I had great success with LyX (https://www.lyx.org/), which builds on top of LaTeX. The experience of typesetting beamer slides with it is relatively user-friendly.

A decent usage example of Typst is https://rendercv.com/. It is a set of Typst templates to build resumés.

thiagowfxon Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

> If there isn't a package for something that I need (and, surprisingly often, there are packages for what I need, and excellent ones!), I find that I can just do it myself. Quickly.

(Serious question) With or without an LLM?

thiagowfxon Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

thiagowfxon Ask HN: How to keep Chinese crawlers from taking down my site?

Have you heard of https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec? It seems like a good fit.

thiagowfxon GPT-5 is behind schedule

There are two to distinguish: "Googlebot" and "Google-Extended".

thiagowfxon Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?

Gerrit is one of the fewest major OSS I’m aware of that uses it: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/prolog-...

thiagowfxon The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo

No need for root?

thiagowfxon Donate to Signal

But then you need a browser extension just for that? It’s a bit overkill. I wonder if this works well with /etc/hosts or local DNS.

thiagowfxon The Void (Linux) distribution

Would be a nice addition to the Arch Wiki as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/arch_compared_to_other_...

thiagowfxon Fish shell 3.0

Adding the usual disclaimer that yay is an AUR helper and thus not officially supported by Arch. Arch users are advised to read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository instead. If you know what you're doing, of course using yay should be fine as well.

thiagowfxon Goodbye, EdgeHTML

How is your experience with Pinboard?

thiagowfxon Goodbye, EdgeHTML

Firefox 3 was much better. No Pocket. No article/news recommendations. Panorama view. Firefox used to be my favorite until it started to get bloated. Prioritizes privacy? Then let me turn recommendations and Pocket permanently off.

thiagowfxon Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7

7 ties now!

thiagowfxon Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

Unsupervised Learning Newsletter by Daniel Miessler - https://danielmiessler.com/podcast/

It's both a weekly newsletter and a podcast.

In the words of its author:

> I do a weekly show called Unsupervised Learning where I curate the most interesting stories in infosec, technology, and humans, and talk about why they matter.

thiagowfxon Uber has a law firm investigating me – Susan Fowler

Your Facebook account is never deleted. It is only deactivated.

thiagowfxon Kaspersky OS

Since this is an OS designed with security in mind, and since they even mentioned Linux (albeit not too nicely), I missed a comparison with or mention of OpenBSD.

thiagowfxon Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools

I don't see a downvote button. Do you need a base reputation for that, like Stack Overflow?

Edit: yeah, karma is needed.

thiagowfxon Slackware Live Edition

"bad" is just a metaphor in this context