Hacker News: pqs

New comment by pqs in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

pqs — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:43:35 +0000

There is also the possibility that the article when through the hands of the company's communication department which has writers that probably write at LLM level.

New comment by pqs in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

pqs — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:38:02 +0000

Mine, in Spain, is surprisingly free of spam. I receive spam on my mobile phone, which is often blocked by Android, but I don't receive spam on my landline. Strange, isn't it?

New comment by pqs in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

pqs — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:37:04 +0000

Well, I'm sure my landline is not a landline anymore, I'm sure it is some sort of VoIP system, but it doesn't matter, it is a phone with a number, that doesn't leave the living room.

New comment by pqs in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

pqs — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:59:22 +0000

Why not using the actual land line? I still have one. My 13 year old son, who has no phone, uses it and it works. I'm just curious.

New comment by pqs in "Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas"

pqs — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:54:16 +0000

I had to read this text in order to understand what this tool does, because I could not know from the website (without watching a video). You should use Spine to improve your website. ;-)

New comment by pqs in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

pqs — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:59:31 +0000

Indeed. I always used Emacs, but not, thanks to AI agents, Emacs is better than ever, as it can write the lisp I can't write, and it can read the docs I don't have the time to read.

New comment by pqs in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

pqs — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:41:32 +0000

I’ve left social networks behind and returned to RSS, and I couldn't be happier. I’m using Delta Chat as an interface with FeedsBot, so the whole setup feels just like Telegram channels, but without Pavel Durov reading everything. It’s been a great experience so far.

New comment by pqs in "AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating"

pqs — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:16:56 +0000

This is the right approach. I exported my 25k Evernote notes to markdown (I'm using Emacs' Howm mode) and I use Codex CLI to ask questions about my notes. It is great and powerful!

New comment by pqs in "Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory"

pqs — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:49:14 +0000

I've been using Delta Chat with a lot of success. It is easy, it works, bots are easy and the concept is improving. They even plan to have forward secrecy. So, give it a try. If you explored it a long time ago, try again, many things have improved in that ecosystem.

New comment by pqs in "Why Self-Host?"

pqs — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:27:47 +0000

With Delta Chat nowadays you can easily host your own federated and secure chat service. It is great.

New comment by pqs in "Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing"

pqs — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:57:07 +0000

I do the same with Emacs and howm-mode. My system has improved a lot since I started using Claude Code. Now I implemented all the features I missed from Evernote!

New comment by pqs in "Designing NotebookLM"

pqs — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:46:38 +0000

I came here to say exactly the same thing. Now the I have Claude Code and Codex CLI I just creat a folder with all the documents I need and I work from there.

New comment by pqs in "Obsidian Bases"

pqs — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 05:44:40 +0000

Now I'm using Emacs Howm for task management. It is based on text files and it is great. Org-mode is also great.

New comment by pqs in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

pqs — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:46:13 +0000

I'm not a programmer, but I need to write python and bash programs to do my work. I also have a few websites and other personal projects. Claude Code helps me implement those little projects I've been wanting to do for a very long time, but I couldn't due to the lack of coding experience and time. Now I'm doing them. Also now I can improve my emacs environment, because I can create lisp functions with ease. For me, this is the perfect tool, because now I can do those little projects I couldn't do before, making my life easier.

New comment by pqs in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

pqs — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:18:32 +0000

I see that nobody mentions Howm for Emacs. I find it more simple than Org-mode and its task sorting algorithm just works well for my brain. I really recommend it to those interested in a zettlekasten like note system with integrated tasks, all in text files.

https://kaorahi.github.io/howm/

New comment by pqs in "When we get Komooted"

pqs — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 07:06:42 +0000

I agree. And Evernote has improved a lot since then.

New comment by pqs in "Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)"

pqs — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:14:07 +0000

In Spain we have Bizum. You can send money to any phone number. It's instand and, as I understand, it works on top of SEPA.

New comment by pqs in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

pqs — Sat, 24 May 2025 09:27:07 +0000

I like this proposition, but the article didn't mention health services in the area. I'm European and I don't fully understand the US health sector but I want to know what would happen in case of severe illness, living this way.

New comment by pqs in "A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard"

pqs — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:23:45 +0000

This is precisely what you shouldn't do. This is what the "system" wants you to do, to work while you exercise, to work while you're with your family, ... What you should do is work the hours you have to and not one more, then you get up, take your bike and enjoy nature.

New comment by pqs in "Building a Local Perplexity Alternative with Perplexica, Ollama, and SearXNG"

pqs — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:42:07 +0000

I tried Perplexity a few times, but I cannot see the point. Are you using it? How is it better than other tools?