Hacker News: olav

New comment by olav in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

olav — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:47:20 +0000

> The traditional Office suite is still good

I don't think so. The web version is mostly incompatible with the Windows or Mac desktop versions.

Have you compared the UI of Word/Powerpoint/Excel with alternatives like Apple Pages/Keynote/Numbers or Google Docs/Sheets? For me, the MS products are a complete mess with arbitrary collections of unrelated buttons, abysmal font rendering and insane defaults.

New comment by olav in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

olav — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:01:05 +0000

The could shut down the company and `rm -rf *` all their assets, no?

New comment by olav in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

olav — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:15:32 +0000

Plus, fulfillment of wishes to users as opposed to IT architecture management. Users have been brainwashed to demand certain brands. When you combine this with an IT Management that lacks mid-term risk management or a vision, you get happy users and an IT landscape easily taken hostage by single vendors.

New comment by olav in "How I use Obsidian (2023)"

olav — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:35:46 +0000

> I avoid folders because many of my entries belong to more than one area of thought

This is the reason why I find Trilium Notes so liberating, where one note can have many parents.

New comment by olav in "FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems"

olav — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:47:46 +0000

Even more so: The 9P protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)

Maybe the most mainstream incarnation is its use in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

New comment by olav in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

olav — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:27:46 +0000

I love it and use it for personal projects and internal tools. I tend to combine it with https://pocketpages.dev/ which gives me file-based routing and nice templates.

Ah, and Pocketbase has automatic database migrations, so all schema modifications can go into version control.

I even hacked a Gemini protocol server into it, so that I can browse my personal knowledge graph using Lagrange.

New comment by olav in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

olav — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:13:07 +0000

I'd rather stay in Linux and use Windows if I really must. Can we have an LSW, then?

New comment by olav in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

olav — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:09:18 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20250518171639/https://amberwill... as long as the original throws a 500 "Internal Server Error".

New comment by olav in "I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors"

olav — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:58:53 +0000

For thirty years now, the world knows that the last company to trust calendars and mail is Microsoft and yet they are all over the place. I have lost all hope for humanity‘s future.

New comment by olav in "Chip-8 Archive"

olav — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:49:14 +0000

I ported John Earnest's Octo variant to an ESP32 cheap yellow display (CYD) board, loading many of the examples from the archive: https://github.com/codekulturbonn/espocto

New comment by olav in "PasswordVault 2025"

olav — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:21:58 +0000

A password manager for ~20€

PasswordVault 2025

olav — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:21:58 +0000

Article URL: https://passwordvault.de

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43006055

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by olav in "Why time seems to pass faster as we age"

olav — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:28:50 +0000

I wonder if the way the author describes it, ie. new memories are just diffs against older experiences, is scientifically grounded.

I came up with another explanation: My thought processes have slowed, so the world has sped up, relative to myself.

Is there scientific evidence for either explanation?

New comment by olav in "In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)"

olav — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:26:41 +0000

As a product manager, I am frequently confronted by UX people who declare something as „standard“, a feature that is supposed to be an absolute „must-have“, or else our organisation would loose even the last of our users. Unfortunately, developers tend to accept these things as interesting challenges and (knowingly or not) underestimate the effort and complexity needed to implement it.

My very lonesome role in these cases is to insist that this shiny thing is no standard at all and that our users would be quite happy without it.

New comment by olav in "New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft"

olav — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:36:31 +0000

My employer forces me to, why else?

New comment by olav in "Show HN: A note-keeping system on top of Fossil SCM"

olav — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:25:37 +0000

My heart jumped with joy when I saw this post. Fossil is such an ingenious system, and, if you are not aware, has been created by the very D. Richard Hipp who created Sqlite. Here is a technical overview: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/tip/www/tech_overview.wiki

Fossil may never become the VCS that rules the world. But, for note taking, it has some very attractive features:

- it is a single executable, written in C with very litte resource requirements

- the file format (an Sqlite database) is designed as an "enduring file format"

- it has an integrated scripting language

For a very long time now I have been considering to port my own note taking system, knowfox, to Fossil. Inspired by this post I might finally come around doing it.

New comment by olav in "Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better"

olav — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:11:01 +0000

I am a huge fan of Firefox, and have small startup scripts for different profiles. Sadly, together with Microsoft Teams on my work Mac, Firefox causes it to switch on the fan.

This does not happen with Safari (which also supports Profiles, even with a button in the UI). So, I see me using Safari more and more on my work Mac, although there is the occasional page that doesn't render properly in it.

New comment by olav in "Ask HN: Web app for building family tree"

olav — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:24:06 +0000

If you don't mind self-hosting a PHP app, https://webtrees.net/ is a nice option.

New comment by olav in "Linear code is more readable"

olav — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:35:22 +0000

I wonder if there is some programming language that supports combining both styles:

- A linear control flow - Named Blocks with explicit, named, typed parameters and return values

I understand that one can use anonymous functions, immediately called to simulate this style.

New comment by olav in "The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection"

olav — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:08:32 +0000

The site is curiously broken in Safari browser.