Hacker News: harryday

New comment by harryday in "Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?"

harryday — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:47:00 +0000

Wherever you go, there you are.

New comment by harryday in "I'm addicted to being useful"

harryday — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:29:45 +0000

Help is the sunny side of control.

New comment by harryday in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

harryday — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:57:53 +0000

> A tail as old as time.

Eggcorn klaxon!

The Several Million Dollar Bug (2014)

harryday — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:51:05 +0000

Article URL: https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-several-million-dollar-bug/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46495982

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Resolutions for 2026?

harryday — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:33:49 +0000

Do you have New Year’s resolutions? And how will you define and track them?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442185

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Syntopicon

harryday — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:24:29 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Syntopicon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46418244

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Handling Email in Emacs

harryday — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:59:11 +0000

Article URL: https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46228471

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Org-roam: A plain-text personal knowledge management system

harryday — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:25:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.orgroam.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215400

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Rope Trick Effect

harryday — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:11:59 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_trick_effect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189315

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by harryday in "Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in nearly 12k years of records"

harryday — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:21:21 +0000

Tangential —

Searching for an explanation of the mushroom cloud phenomenon lead me to the rope trick effect, with some fascinating images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_trick_effect

Term-keys – Lossless keyboard input for Emacs

harryday — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:07:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/CyberShadow/term-keys

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096341

Points: 26

# Comments: 6

New comment by harryday in "Project Xanadu"

harryday — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:00:54 +0000

Demo — https://xanadu.com/xanademos/MoeJusteOrigins.html

Project Xanadu

harryday — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://xanadu.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077521

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Unihertz Titan 2

harryday — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:50:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054824

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good

harryday — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 07:40:26 +0000

Article URL: https://kristofferbalintona.me/posts/202505291438/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46021577

Points: 254

# Comments: 125

Synctrain: A rethought iOS client for Syncthing (2024)

harryday — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:01:43 +0000

Article URL: https://t-shaped.nl/posts/synctrain-a-rethought-ios-client-for-syncthing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45768852

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by harryday in "How ancient people saw themselves"

harryday — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:40:43 +0000

> In the myth of Narcissus, a beautiful young demigod who saw his own reflection in a pool of water became so enamored with it that he refused to move. He rejected the advances of beautiful young women and eventually wasted away, unable to break the spell of his own image.

Alternative, deeper understanding — https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/10/the_story_of_narciss...

Tape Speed Keyboard [video]

harryday — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:20:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adxlFwIGTfc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45653000

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Rumoured iPhone Fold size – concept drawing and renders

harryday — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:27:55 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/rumoured-iphone-fold-size-concept-drawing-and-renders.2456447/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45196667

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by harryday in "Self-Guaranteeing Promises"

harryday — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:29:50 +0000

Used Obsidian (paid for commercial and sync) for years, loved it, and evangelised. Ango and team seem to have genuine integrity.

Am moving to Emacs, org, plus self-built elements, however. With much pain.

You see, what is /not/ self-guaranteeing about a full Obsidian life-organising workflow is the necessary reliance on plugins and their quirky configs. I felt as locked in to the ecosystem as I ever did with services that ‘merely’ used a proprietary storage format.

I know others in the same boat. Obsidian’s long-term legacy may well be primarily as a market-maker for Emacs.