Hacker News: heliostatic

New comment by heliostatic in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

heliostatic — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:18:37 +0000

This looks great. The decisions feature, and the focus on good async, reminds me of Stride (Atlassian's failed chat product).

Chat is such a social product, even inside a company, as many here have addressed. That said, irc, hipchat, campfire, matrix, slack, zulio, lync, wave, and a hundred others have had their moments of success, and I could see this being on the more successful side.

New comment by heliostatic in "Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app"

heliostatic — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:59:10 +0000

Definitely interested in that!

New comment by heliostatic in "Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt"

heliostatic — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:37:45 +0000

Yes! I always thought that was a very clever project, and was sad when it ceased development. Very excited to try this out, and glad to have stayed on Debian all these years.

New comment by heliostatic in "Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder"

heliostatic — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:10:18 +0000

Immediate purchase. My urban planning dwarf fortress dream.

New comment by heliostatic in "Show HN: Git for LLMs – A context management interface"

heliostatic — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:02:03 +0000

Would love to see that--haven't found a great LLM interface for obsidian yet.

New comment by heliostatic in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

heliostatic — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:50:00 +0000

Maybe not that impressive, but makes sense (o4-mini): https://chatgpt.com/share/680baeac-3008-800d-8984-f252aba0f9...

New comment by heliostatic in "The Church FAQ"

heliostatic — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:33:10 +0000

Same -- I still think of Scalzi as a new(ish) SF writer since he started publishing after I was an adult SF reader. Woof, time marches on!

New comment by heliostatic in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

heliostatic — Mon, 27 May 2024 11:39:53 +0000

> jump

They added jumps about 6 months ago: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8875

I haven't experienced data loss, but I agree that's a blocker for regular use.

New comment by heliostatic in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

heliostatic — Thu, 23 May 2024 22:22:45 +0000

Ordered. Can you recommend a stand that has worked well? Love the vision.

One Billion Row Challenge in Rust

heliostatic — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 16:41:45 +0000

Article URL: https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/one-billion-row-challenge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189820

Points: 2

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New comment by heliostatic in "Claude 3 model family"

heliostatic — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:27:03 +0000

Seems to get it right on my first try. Interesting unreliability.

User: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?

Claude: To solve this, let's break it down step-by-step:

We know that Sally has 3 brothers. Each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters. This might make you think that there are 6 sisters in total (3 brothers × 2 sisters each). However, this is not the case. The sisters that each brother has are the same - they are Sally and one other sister. The question is asking how many sisters Sally herself has, not the total number of sisters in the family. Since Sally is a girl, she cannot be her own sister. Therefore, the number of sisters Sally has is equal to the number of sisters each of her brothers has minus herself. So, if each brother has 2 sisters, and one of those sisters is Sally, then Sally must have 2 - 1 = 1 sister. Therefore, Sally has 1 sister.

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New comment by heliostatic in "Are Passkeys the beginning of the end of passwords? I hope not"

heliostatic — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:53:05 +0000

This is covered by the cross-platform scenario. It's not super elegant, although I'd say it's easier than typing 100+ random characters (and also trusting that the locked down device doesn't have any key logging?). Lots of providers have their own FAQ, but here's one: https://www.corbado.com/passkeys/faq#:~:text=Passkeys%20have....

New comment by heliostatic in "Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history"

heliostatic — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 13:36:03 +0000

You may want to look at courtlistener.org as inspiration--similar set of problems, but in a different space obviously.

New comment by heliostatic in "Show HN: I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance admin tasks"

heliostatic — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:38:48 +0000

Just another endorsement for screen.studio--it's extremely handy for me feature announcements, demos, and FAQs.

New comment by heliostatic in "SmartKnob – Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents"

heliostatic — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:43:24 +0000

This is great! I've been thinking about building something similar for sleep training with my toddler--need something that works in a dark room by feel and has variable intervals. Love it.

New comment by heliostatic in "Stalwart All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP)"

heliostatic — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:56:16 +0000

In the terminal, I use aerc, which added jmap support recently. Currently only available on master, but a new release should be out soon: https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/commit/be0bfc1ae28b49be654662...

New comment by heliostatic in "Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune"

heliostatic — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:55:43 +0000

Closing the loop, this is now implemented and on main, thanks to msdrigg: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7429

New comment by heliostatic in "My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)"

heliostatic — Wed, 10 May 2023 12:46:35 +0000

I'll make the obvious point that these interviews were not good predictors of success at the companies.

In general, I've found in 15 years of interviews that interviews are not highly correlated with the work at any given company. I wish we would move beyond cargo cult interview styles and base interviews (and screening, for that matter) on the actual work and culture of each company.

New comment by heliostatic in "EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones"

heliostatic — Sun, 07 May 2023 17:25:33 +0000

I believe we have found the economist.

What's the electrical failure rate of every appliance in your home, and the associated risk of death by electrocution? If you don't know offhand, it might be that you are implicitly relying on UL standards to keep you safe and whole.

Consumers don't have perfect information, so the risk is asymmetric. If you assume the market will sort out risk and quality so we don't need standards and enforcement thereof, I don't believe your model is aligned with reality.

New comment by heliostatic in "FDA Approves First Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine"

heliostatic — Thu, 04 May 2023 14:05:05 +0000

Feel free to cite studies supporting your claims (genuinely, not sarcasm, but making positive claims about factual matters can and should be supported by evidence).