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New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"

kenforthewin — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:51:44 +0000

I was able to repro one issue that could have been contributing to your broken experience - there's a slight delay between, for example, clicking text in a heading and having the "#" markdown decoration appear. This is to prevent the mouse location from shifting mid-click and causing text to be selected unintentionally (obsidian does this too). But there was a bug that was causing a cascading set of failures if edits happened during that delay window, which is likely what folks who are clicking around at random points in the editor and adding text are doing. I fixed it in 0.4.2, which should be live now.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"

kenforthewin — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:51:45 +0000

Thanks for trying it out! would you mind giving some steps that allow me to repro the issue? It's early days so i'm sure there are some rough edges, hopefully I can fix them quickly.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"

kenforthewin — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:39:10 +0000

Thanks for the heads up - I pushed up a fix to the hightlighting issue.

I originally went with Milkdown (Prosemirror-based) for Atomic, the knowledge base project that I built Atomic Editor for. ProseMirror doesn't provide virtualization out of the box. For shorter notes and even moderately long content it's fine - but atomic supports syncing content from a diverse set of sources and I noticed that long documents were causing delays on initial page load and some lag during edits. I didn't find anything like it with native virtualization that felt right to me so I built Atomic Editor.

Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6

kenforthewin — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:32:54 +0000

Article URL: https://kenforthewin.github.io/atomic-editor/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345201

Points: 67

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New comment by kenforthewin in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

kenforthewin — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:45:28 +0000

The weepiness and persecution complex is overwhelming.

New comment by kenforthewin in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

kenforthewin — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:13:22 +0000

Could you expand on the "substantial ops burden"? Let's say you're using a managed Postgres instance as the underlying data store, how substantial is the ops burden in that case? I understand that temporal is actually a set of 4 or so microservices on top of a data store, but if you're already running a distributed system backed by k8s or something like that, it doesn't seem like it adds significant incremental ops on top of that. But I could be wrong.

New comment by kenforthewin in "The bottleneck was never the code"

kenforthewin — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:50:07 +0000

Looks like this comment is touching a nerve. This community is progressing from "AI can't write code", to "Well, AI can write code but it's not really about the code". I wonder where the goalposts will be moved next?

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:44:50 +0000

Tauri is great! this is my first Rust-based project and it took some real getting used to. But i love that Tauri does not ship with an entire chromium browser, and i love its focus on security.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:03:21 +0000

nice username :)

fair point, the app makes requests to load fonts. we'll fix that next release.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:13:07 +0000

Local first means running Atomic with local models is not an afterthought. It’s a first class citizen that works just as seamlessly as running with a cloud provider - assuming you’ve done the work to provision the local models and their connections yourself.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:55:54 +0000

This is .. honestly a great synopsis of Atomic and its design tradeoffs. Thanks! Giving commonplace a look.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:48:29 +0000

One can imagine an obsidian plugin of any arbitrary level of complexity, given it's written in a Turing-complete language.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:36:46 +0000

I'm not sure I understand the question. Regardless of what provider you choose - be it cloud based or local - you have to provide setup information such as host, authentication, etc. So it "defaults" to nothing; you have to select something.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:22:28 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I admit copywriting is not my forte. i'm a solo dev, I'm focusing most of the time and energy on the product itself. There are always 100 things I could be polishing for Atomic - social media presence, website, docs, etc. even with AI there just aren't enough hours in the day - you have to triage somehow.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:04:37 +0000

It has supported local LLMs from the beginning, it was not something that was just tacked on. I don't know what else to tell you. Your assumptions are just wrong.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:01:11 +0000

Atomic supports any generic openAI compatible LLM provider, including ollama, LM studio, etc.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:59:56 +0000

Atomic supports any generic openAI compatible LLM provider, including ollama, LM studio, etc.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:21:32 +0000

Did you think local-first meant how a dropdown is sorted?

OpenAI-compatible is indeed one of the provider options for Atomic. Ollama and openRouter are separate options to allow for easier selection of models from these specific providers.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:33:07 +0000

I'm not sure what the dunk is supposed to be here .. Atomic supports the exact same feature set with local models as it does for OpenRouter. Is your gripe just that Openrouter is the first option in the dropdown?

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

kenforthewin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:10:51 +0000

working on it https://github.com/kenforthewin/atomic/tree/main/mobile/andr...