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vanrohan··on Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage
Open Noodle is a fork of Immich which addresses the lack of Sharing: https://opennoodle.de/features/?category=sharing
vanrohan··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
Good to know! It slides in/out like a puzzle, so should be fine then.
vanrohan··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
Thanks!
vanrohan··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
I really hope not! But it does look much better this way, it was an eyesore. And the regular heizung guys didnt complain when they saw it like this, so im assuming all is well
vanrohan··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
IKEA furniture is great for small adjustments to fit your needs. Not costing a fortune also makes it easier to experiment with it. Since they're so common, it's easy to find CAD drawings for most of them. I did a small hack/conversion on a Billy closet to hide some pipes in our apartment. https://vanderwalt.de/blog/customizing-ikea-billy-to-hide-pi...
vanrohan··on Asus Bike Booster
Reminds me of this low-tech solution

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/V%C3%A9lo_%C3%A0_assistance...

vanrohan··on r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming
I know LLM generated code comes with it's own challenges, but the absolutists are definitely clinging to a time that has passed. I saw a recent discussion on Immich where a maintainer flatout denied a PR saying "That diff looks LLM-generated to me; is that indeed the case? If so, we'd prefer not to receive a PR for it" The PR was from a professional software engineer, who worked weeks of his free time on a big feature. Well structured + tested. Dismissed just because AI was used. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/23745#discu...
vanrohan··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
Currently working on: https://postply.com

Postply uses full-context to generate better replies on X, Instagram, Facebook & LinkedIn. It supports custom reply profiles and styles for support teams and social media managers. There are clearly a lot of AI replies on social media already, but they are really generic and bad. With Postply.com I'm hoping it will help people generate better and more meaningful replies.

vanrohan··on Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
I made something along the same lines, but just targeting WhatsApp Web specifically. I came up with the idea when I ended up in a WhatsApp group chat that was very MultiLingual. So this allowed me to participate in the conversation. It's also been handy to talk to contractors and service providers. https://ai-polyglot.com
vanrohan··on Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON
It's probably LLM generated. Adding a fun/cool factor to the project. I created a Chrome Extension where you can "emojify" any text with a right-click. https://emoji-bot.com
vanrohan··on Go European: Discover European products and services
Im not particularly fussy if it's EU or European. The idea is more to get insight if it's just a dropshipper/reseller type of business, or involved in regional manufacturing.
vanrohan··on Go European: Discover European products and services
Great to see a directory like this starting to include physical products. I'd be interested in having some extra datapoints to help with decision making:

- How much of the product/company's supply chain is in EU (to get an idea of just how European the product is, is it made here or abroad)

- Some way to show if the company is paying "fair" tax in EU (or are profits shifted abroad)

These are difficult datapoints to get, but I wonder if there can be some sort of "community notes" where this data can be crowd sourced and updated on the directory.

vanrohan··on Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
> Having voting rights kind of goes against the point of tracking an index though.

Not sure I follow how voting rights goes against the point of tracking an index? I'd say the value of the index implicitly prices in the value of the voting rights in the constituents. So if your index does not contain the voting rights, should the index price not be different?

> And for funds that use synthetic replication there is nothing to vote on in the first place.

There are all kinds of funds, of course when it's 100% synthetic then so be it. But if it holds a representitive sample of Russell 3000, then those votes count.

vanrohan··on Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
Individually we don't have significant shares, but aggregate it up to BlackRock / Vanguard level, then there is real influence. What is that influence worth? that influence given to the fund manager should be priced correctly. I agree, you probably dont want to have to vote on 500 companies, but to start with it should be an "opt out" decision if you don't care. Alternatively you could allocate your votes to a proxy entity that aggregates like minded investors votes.
vanrohan··on Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
I wish there can be more focus on the voting rights for passive funds. Investors are concentrating voting power with these fund managers, just giving away their voting rights for free. I'd like to see better investor voting management systems become more available for "pass through" voting for passive fund investors.

[1] https://vanderwalt.de/blog/etf-vs-direct-indexing-investing-...

vanrohan··on IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You
Thanks for letting me now, I need to fix this, or atleast mention it in the extension description.
vanrohan··on IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You
Also make sure to remove bots from your followers. Having them in your social graph impacts your feed for sure. I made the "x bot remover" Chrome extension that automates removal based on simple rules. It's free.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...

vanrohan··on Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed
I'm also on a mission to clean the "For You" feed. I tried using local LLMs to do this real-time classification, but it's currently just too slow.

Another way to reduce the spam, is to remove bot followers from your account, I believe these bots use "likes" (which are hidden) to boost content for the botnet owners. Most of these bots are easy to spot, 0 posts, and very bad follower/following ratios. I built this Chrome Extension for bot removal automation: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...

It would be way better if this was just done by X themselves, but why not try.

vanrohan··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
I recently started using X (Twitter), and got annoyed with my daily new followers that were obviously bots.

I made a Chrome Extension to automate the bot follower removal: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...

I suspect these bots are being used to boost certain content controlled by their owners, so definitely not good to leave them alone.