Hacker News: aae42

New comment by aae42 in "Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons"

aae42 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:22:23 +0000

Preparing them for the future when all of their work will be laid out this way to maximize productivity

New comment by aae42 in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

aae42 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:58:59 +0000

A dull knife

New comment by aae42 in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

aae42 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:10:12 +0000

$5 USB mic?

New comment by aae42 in "Show HN: Clippy – a better pbcopy for macOS that handles files properly"

aae42 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:30:18 +0000

they'd love my little clipboard/AI project name, then

https://github.com/aae42/clippy-clippy/

New comment by aae42 in "Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions"

aae42 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:36:27 +0000

anyone could run this themselves with open web UI and litellm, in fact that's the stack I've been using

New comment by aae42 in "Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?"

aae42 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:25:49 +0000

i find these discussions comparing the "vision language models" to the old computer vision tech pretty interesting

since there are still strengths the computer vision has, i wonder why someone hasn't made an "über vision language service" that just exposes the old CV APIs as MCP or something, and have both systems work in conjunction to increase accuracy and understanding

New comment by aae42 in "GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases"

aae42 — Sat, 03 May 2025 11:13:07 +0000

I've noticed this on my org as well, people refer to "putting things in git" and 75% of the time they're referring to the source forge.

New comment by aae42 in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

aae42 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:40:54 +0000

ripoff of https://www.chronophoto.app ?

it's really fun/simple so can't feel too bad

New comment by aae42 in "CINC Is Not Chef"

aae42 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:33:15 +0000

I still use it for that. Built a really nice packer based process that pulls in Chef cookbooks and applies them in zero mode. Even have an integration test of the resulting AMI in later stages using test kitchen (Chef's "killer app" imo) with the EC2 driver to spin up an instance with the AMI and run Inspec tests on it.

New comment by aae42 in "CINC Is Not Chef"

aae42 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:26:35 +0000

this is interesting to me, i know Facebook still uses Chef, are there any other FAANGs that do?

New comment by aae42 in "Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI"

aae42 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:22:29 +0000

could also just do the request in javascript instead of needing a (presumably hosted) sandbox

New comment by aae42 in "CINC Is Not Chef"

aae42 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:14:35 +0000

It's an interesting post. I feel like people who are still doing Chef definitely know about cinc already.

New comment by aae42 in "How to use an en-dash and em-dash correctly? (BrE)"

aae42 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:42:33 +0000

i also disagree w/ the article, it almost always needs spaces around both en and em dashes

New comment by aae42 in "Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?"

aae42 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:53:36 +0000

just like real intelligence... what's the adage?

> You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar

New comment by aae42 in "Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped"

aae42 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:03:13 +0000

if you really got into the habit of putting your train of thought in here i was thinking you could use it for billing hours/dividing up billable hours

New comment by aae42 in "Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped"

aae42 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:02:21 +0000

probably, i wonder if there shouldn't be an edited timestamp as well

New comment by aae42 in "Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped"

aae42 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:52:00 +0000

Looks good. How do I share across devices?

Would I ever be able to see the source, or run whatever backend the above request requires myself? Maybe I've answered my first question and this thing is 100% client side.

I've been using https://www.usememos.com/ as of late, so the concept resonates with me. It's the first note taking app I've went all in on that seems to make time a first-class feature. Yours takes that even further by breaking it down per entry.

New comment by aae42 in "Ask HN: How has your experience been with a Snapdragon-based laptop?"

aae42 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 12:40:09 +0000

i know it's only been 5 hours, but the lack of comments about any Snapdragon X Elite laptop so far makes it pretty clear.... people aren't buying these things...

they're starting to come down in price a bit, i also would like to pick up a thinkpad version for < 5 bills, but they're not there yet, also i've heard very little about the linux support on them

New comment by aae42 in "Docker Compose Isn't Enough"

aae42 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:55:35 +0000

nix

New comment by aae42 in "Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3"

aae42 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:57:00 +0000

BW synchronizes all your data on each client... if you logged in before, and your server goes down, you can still log in to a recent client, it just won't be able to update

you could recover from that