Hacker News: ellieh

New comment by ellieh in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

ellieh — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:33:24 +0000

Personally I have never been bothered by programs using my home folder. I don’t regularly ls the contents of it, and just browse by path from my shell anyway, so the clutter is barely visible to me

Vouch-compatible PR-spam reduction GitHub Action workflow and CLI tool

ellieh — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:17:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/PThorpe92/fossier

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142003

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ellieh in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

ellieh — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:54:23 +0000

sure, but with unsafe Rust you have a very clear marking for the section of code that requires additional care and attention. it is also customary to include a "SAFETY" comment outlining why using unsafe is OK here

New comment by ellieh in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

ellieh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:03:29 +0000

I wish it was easier to know which projects are in desperate need of funding because I love pgbackrest and totally would have donated here, and I suspect many others would have too :/

New comment by ellieh in "Parallel agents in Zed"

ellieh — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:44:51 +0000

> I imagine this will push some new users away

I suspect it will gain them more users than it will lose

Most other tools doing this are heavy, buggy, and built on electron

New comment by ellieh in "Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?"

ellieh — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:50:51 +0000

So Atuin actually runs postgresql on the server only - the part that handles sync for many users

On the client, it uses sqlite. As of recently, it also keeps an in-memory Nucleo index to make fuzzy searching much faster

We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

ellieh — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:52:58 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.gitbutler.com/series-a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712656

Points: 337

# Comments: 755

New comment by ellieh in "Migrating to the EU"

ellieh — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:35:31 +0000

> Codeberg is a German-based nonprofit organization, and it’s hard to imagine going wrong with this choice.

I like what they're doing, however Codeberg's 14 day uptime is _97.05%_. I've heard from many that downtime is normal there, and is worse than GitHub (which is already... bad). This makes them a non-starter imo, until that improves.

With the current trend of things going down all the time, the best way to compete is just to be available.

New comment by ellieh in "Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell"

ellieh — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:33:17 +0000

I’m not sure what you mean here - we never supported fzf, other than a super early prototype in like 2021

This release actually adds support for nucleo, which matches with the same algorithm as fzf and was a common request

New comment by ellieh in "Waymo Safety Impact"

ellieh — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:24:35 +0000

as a motorcyclist I often feel more comfortable riding near waymos

at this point I trust that they have seen me, know that I'm there, and won't behave unpredictably

New comment by ellieh in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

ellieh — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:30:11 +0000

this happens to me so often that I wonder if it's something YC suggest people do

What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents

ellieh — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:37:35 +0000

Article URL: https://georgeguimaraes.com/your-agent-orchestrator-is-just-a-bad-clone-of-elixir/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067395

Points: 149

# Comments: 51

New comment by ellieh in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

ellieh — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:23:46 +0000

gpui existing in the first place is a result of them raising VC

How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

ellieh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:16:57 +0000

https://archive.ph/ebA1T

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789180

Points: 226

# Comments: 358

New comment by ellieh in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

ellieh — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:14:19 +0000

> In other words: get an actually Linux supported laptop for Linux.

40% battery for 4hrs of real work is better than pretty much any linux supported laptop I've ever used

New comment by ellieh in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

ellieh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:08:10 +0000

The main difference otherwise is that Atuin stores much more data + syncs it

We shelled out to fzf in the very early days, but found the initial indexing to be a bit slower + add latency vs SQLite

New comment by ellieh in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

ellieh — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 02:47:49 +0000

Let me know if there’s anything I can help with!

New comment by ellieh in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

ellieh — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 02:47:19 +0000

You’re very welcome! Glad it’s working well for you

New comment by ellieh in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

ellieh — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 23:19:30 +0000

One of the main things we’re aiming to do here is make these manual processes much less manual! I’m a big believer in automating things gradually, which runbooks enable

New comment by ellieh in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

ellieh — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 23:16:52 +0000

Not just yet! We support a bunch of features that don’t fit into markdown very well.

We will have better markdown support soon