Hacker News: ryang2718

New comment by ryang2718 in "Do you even need a database?"

ryang2718 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:24:10 +0000

Yeah, files as a database is fun, but I find you ultimately reinvent the wheel when sqlite is pretty battle tested, free and easier to get right or scale up.

I can't talk though because I actually find myself doing this a lot

New comment by ryang2718 in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

ryang2718 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:21:27 +0000

This is actually a really interesting use case for a local model.

The writing might be a bit mediocre but it would capture all the information.

Parent post really stumbled on a great idea here.

New comment by ryang2718 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ryang2718 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:31:06 +0000

It can be very device specific unfortunately. Thinkpad tend to work quote well. I had a Framework that my wife took from me and it's truly fantastic, works out of the box.

New comment by ryang2718 in "How Markdown took over the world"

ryang2718 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:13:38 +0000

The key bindings out of the box with something like Doom emacsx is a big selling point too.

I have not been able to get markdown to walk in Vim, anywhere near as well.

New comment by ryang2718 in "Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?"

ryang2718 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:49:53 +0000

Well, that was a knowledge gap, thank you! I certainly need to review PCA but python makes it a bit too easy.

New comment by ryang2718 in "Web development is fun again"

ryang2718 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:07:18 +0000

I too have found this. However, I absolutely love being able to mock up a larger idea in 30 minutes to assess feasibility as a proof of concept before I sink a few hours into it.

New comment by ryang2718 in "Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?"

ryang2718 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:04:39 +0000

I find it helpful to view least as fitting the noise to a Gaussian distribution.

New comment by ryang2718 in "The Inevitability of the Borrow Checker"

ryang2718 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:03:38 +0000

Unless a library developer decides to abort on panic in the `toml`, then i don’t believe you can unwind.

New comment by ryang2718 in "Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance"

ryang2718 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:24:31 +0000

Although, tbf, some libraries are documented better than others.

Also, local llms with an agentic tool can be a lot of fun to quickly prototype things. Quality can be hit or miss.

Hopefully the work trickles down to local models long-term.

New comment by ryang2718 in "Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance"

ryang2718 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:21:57 +0000

How have you found R1? I've been meaning to try it with Aider's Architect mode.

Have you tried the 7b?

New comment by ryang2718 in "Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes"

ryang2718 — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 09:13:33 +0000

I haven't been on here for long, but I must say, I'm really amazed at how friendly this community is! HackerNews really sets itself apart.

New comment by ryang2718 in "Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes"

ryang2718 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:50:28 +0000

I’m not sure what you mean.

New comment by ryang2718 in "Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes"

ryang2718 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:27:50 +0000

Oh you’re absolutely right, what a silly mistake on my end, I put it up on my GitHub here, check it out:

https://github.com/RyanGreenup/cadmus

The original Reddit post is here:

https://reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/hs7g8r/shell_scrip...

New comment by ryang2718 in "Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes"

ryang2718 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:39:52 +0000

I couldn't agree more about the difficulty of grokking somebody else's tool.

The thing is though it took me a long time to get to the level where I could put something like this together and I wish I could have had some sort of guidance earlier on.

That's why I've tried to make my implementation modular, so others can take the things that they haven't figured out from mine and implement it in there workflow.

I should get around to documenting it so others can take replicate, imitate or fork it.

New comment by ryang2718 in "Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes"

ryang2718 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:24:11 +0000

Recently there was [a thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23883270) on Notable and many commented that they were upset that it was no longer open source.

This is something that actually concerned me and so I started using a lot of `bash` scripts to emulate behaviour that I like in Notable, that way I could use Notable without the fear of being locked it but I could try and emulate its behavior in a way that more suited my workflow.

I put the script I use [up on my GitHub](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23883270) and I recently [made a Reddit post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23883270). I thought maybe you guys could find them helpful or offer feedback?

Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes

ryang2718 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:24:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RyanGreenup/cadmus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895498

Points: 26

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