Hacker News: Valodim

New comment by Valodim in "Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history"

Valodim — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:43:30 +0000

The readme starts by saying how the author used to use atuin, and why they wrote stinkpot as a less featureful alternative.

New comment by Valodim in "Git rebase -i is not that scary"

Valodim — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:39:19 +0000

Genuine question, why? It seems like a reasonable knowledge check that can be answered in a few sentences.

New comment by Valodim in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

Valodim — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:40:26 +0000

This tends to be necessary as soon as you move any non trivial amount of money around. You can't get a bank account without some bureaucratic overhead

New comment by Valodim in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

Valodim — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:41:18 +0000

You say that as if it wasn't true for anything human programmers ever produced

New comment by Valodim in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

Valodim — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:56:04 +0000

Simple to do when you don't care about e2e and clients can just show data they receive to the user with little logic of their own. It is a world of difference in complexity.

Those nice things are what you get when you're fine having all your data (messages, images, files) forever in plaintext on servers owned by some Russian rich guy.

Pray there will never be a telegram.zip torrent.

New comment by Valodim in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"

Valodim — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:45:04 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by Valodim in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"

Valodim — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:58:59 +0000

I'm curious, do you do version control, sync, or work with AI agents? If so, how does that work (for you)?

New comment by Valodim in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"

Valodim — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:44:31 +0000

Even if it was something people wanted, and it wasn't clear that it was even before the advent of CC, abandoning the mainline product for years was a terrible move.

Hopefully they at least got something out of it for themselves from that VC money.

New comment by Valodim in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"

Valodim — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:21:10 +0000

It pains me to say, but it's probably too little, too late. Logseq remained a buggy mess, is now on an unmaintained (thus insecure) version of electron.

And now after several years of complete stagnation, the supposed improvement is a database format to fix their technical issues, so I can no longer keep all my data as markdown files? At a time when half the edits are done by Claude and tracked with jujustu, this is just not useful for me.

All I wanted was the original vision, but with less bugs and more quality of life features.

New comment by Valodim in "Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper"

Valodim — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:02:29 +0000

Did you just paste your marketing copy into a hn comment?

New comment by Valodim in "Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms"

Valodim — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:09:49 +0000

I kind of understand for i18n, but not for most other things

New comment by Valodim in "Immich 3.0"

Valodim — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:58:50 +0000

Please buy a license if you are happy with the project :) it's free, but you can still buy a license for a small amount of what you saved

New comment by Valodim in "Immich 3.0"

Valodim — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:56:51 +0000

Their business model is basically donations, it's not a for-profit operation. Maybe if you consider yourself less of a customer and more the beneficiary of a community effort, it'll be easier to "get"

New comment by Valodim in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

Valodim — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:22:49 +0000

> Unfortunately, X did not win out. We did not get the promised future where one can ssh -X into a remote machine, run gnome-control-center, and a settings window pops up and I can configure my remote computer.

Personally I'm glad that's the case. Configuring servers via gui is an abomination, and I hope it stays in the windows world.

New comment by Valodim in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

Valodim — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:05:14 +0000

We slaughter animals millions by the day in an industrialized fashion. I'm sure they'll feel much better that even singular instances of sexual harassment are officially not ok on paper.

New comment by Valodim in "The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends"

Valodim — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:08:33 +0000

In my experience, networking also helps sidestep a lot of that stuff.

New comment by Valodim in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Valodim — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:46:45 +0000

I'll happily pay the new prices, if they actually have the servers available. Cheap pricing is nice, but not that useful when in practice you can't actually buy most of the time.

New comment by Valodim in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

Valodim — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:25:54 +0000

It's kind of amazing how many comments even here seem to implicitly or explicitly agree that the "optimal" number is more than zero.

Personally, I rather enjoy not having my kids shot at school.

New comment by Valodim in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

Valodim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:11:58 +0000

Try kagi :)

New comment by Valodim in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

Valodim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:57:03 +0000

Counter point: If it had been onsite, there would be a full layer of social sensibilities and grace from the colleagues you work with every day, helping you out.

Conversely, it is much easier, on several levels, to support and guide someone you spend your whole day and go to lunch with.