Hacker News: sliqqq

New comment by sliqqq in "sshole"

sliqqq — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:35:54 +0000

jesus christ wtf

New comment by sliqqq in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2026)"

sliqqq — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:28:09 +0000

Working on an Apple Notes clone, but everything is a local Markdown file. Currently free, macOS (Silicon + Intel) and Windows. Has tags and priorities, can display many scientific syntaxes (mhchem, most TeX / LaTeX stuff, Excalidraw, PlantUML, Graphviz / DOT, Vega-Lite, and actual Markdown footnotes). Can show notes in vertical lanes like JIRA does. Free iCloud sync too. Still early alpha.

https://notesplus.io

New comment by sliqqq in "Elon Musk isn't an engineer or manager. He's an influencer and lobbyist"

sliqqq — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:16:06 +0000

what you said has nothing to do with what i said.. are you even a real human? i meant that it's sad people blindly follow narratives instead of looking into the issue itself.

New comment by sliqqq in "Elon Musk isn't an engineer or manager. He's an influencer and lobbyist"

sliqqq — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:47:30 +0000

No, he is correct! Hackernews is one of these platform without a negative-feedback-channel, and a very opinionated community, which is a serious problem. Especially when the post itself is a bizarre opinion, not a clear fact. This post is probably just another part of the campaign against him. Musk itself said he's not an engineer.

New comment by sliqqq in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

sliqqq — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:55:00 +0000

Thanks mate, feels good to read this! The sentence "The moderators don't allow any discourse that challenges the approved narrative." should be printed in history books, it explains so well how political discourse happens (or not happens) these days. Brilliant!

New comment by sliqqq in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2026)"

sliqqq — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:13:04 +0000

https://notesplus.io

New comment by sliqqq in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

sliqqq — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:40:31 +0000

Perfect explanaition! I see this not only in politics, but also in simple tech or niche fields I'm very familiar with, sometimes even medical things I have to deal with for 20 years: If it doesnt fit the (uneducated) mods' view, it will get downvoted or (shadow)banned. Resulting in bizarre threads with 40k upvotes, but no actual answers on the open question, because the answers have been removed. Totally nuts.

New comment by sliqqq in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

sliqqq — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:37:08 +0000

Yes, yes, yes! I'm so happy to see this trending on Hackernews! Reddit has been an echochamber for simple, naive opinions, and people who avoid going deep into the problems of the world. Radical censorship by the mob.

In my experience, literally every thread or comment that even just questions the "big narrative", the opinion of the masses, is downvoted, banned or even deleted by mods or the mob.

Example: Germany is breaking apart politically due to the uncontrolled mass immigration topic, resulting in landslide wins of a far-right political party. I want to hear opinions of the voters, the protesters, the undecided, of everybody regadless of their position, but somehow, you will not find their voices on reddit. Like they dont exist.

New comment by sliqqq in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

sliqqq — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:38:50 +0000

Working on an Apple Notes clone, but everything is a local Markdown file. Still in development, started as a hobby summer project for Second Brain people and Markdown hoarders like me. Goal is to be able to read any form of files. I worked with Notes, Obsidian, Bear and Typora before and they all didnt even come close to what I personally wanted, so that's where the project idea comes from.

I'm struggling with the extremely different feedback from the internet: Some niches give excellent reviews, some literally destroyed it. Some days are fun, some make me think if i should cancel this whole thing.

https://notesplus.io

New comment by sliqqq in "Show HN: Notes Plus – A Markdown Apple Notes Clone with Latex, Excalidraw etc."

sliqqq — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:36:22 +0000

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it!

The cloud sync feature request is already on the roadmap (https://bugreport.notesplus.io/tickets/02a2ddcb-6770-4915-8b...), the fiddly grabber has now a bug ticket too (https://bugreport.notesplus.io/tickets/ad5a1c48-b652-43cd-91...)

;)

New comment by sliqqq in "Show HN: Notes Plus – A Markdown Apple Notes Clone with Latex, Excalidraw etc."

sliqqq — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:42:12 +0000

Yes, i create a ticket for that: https://bugreport.notesplus.io/tickets/beae09ea-ba82-4668-84... ;)

New comment by sliqqq in "Show HN: Notes Plus – A Markdown Apple Notes Clone with Latex, Excalidraw etc."

sliqqq — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:25:40 +0000

Thank tarwin! The app saves metadata like priorities, tags and rank/orders, pin status, favorite status (for files) and sorting (for folders) inside the app itself, technically in ONE simple .json in the app's macOS data folder (might have different locations on Intel and Apple silicon macs):

~/Library/Application Support/.... .notesplus/notes-metadata.json

It's a simple key-value JSON, simply a list of every file, and the according prio, tags, etc. (if set). The notes themselves are not touched and there are NOT any .files or so.

Regarding speed: To be honest i rebuild the app multiple times from scratch, every single time for performance reasons. ;)

New comment by sliqqq in "Show HN: Notes Plus – A Markdown Apple Notes Clone with Latex, Excalidraw etc."

sliqqq — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:58:23 +0000

thanks!

Show HN: Notes Plus – A Markdown Apple Notes Clone with Latex, Excalidraw etc.

sliqqq — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:17:05 +0000

tldr: clone of Apple Notes, but every note is a local Markdown file.

Hi, I used a summer of unemployment to actually finalize a hobby project, a literal clone of Apple's Notes, with open access to the filesystem, meaning each note is just a markdown file. Then implemented renderers for Excalidraw, Latex, AsciiMath, mermaid diagrams, PlantUML, Graphviz, Vega Lite, mhchem and footnotes (a feature i need a lot in texts).

It can also show notes in vertical lists, like swimlanes, I call it "JIRA view" ;)

Free for now (might monetize later if anybody is actually interested in the tool, with $19 one-time payment, NOT subscription)!

macOS app, but Windows and Linuxes are planned too.

I'm not 100% sure about the legal aspect of this, but i will try to even list it in the Appstore. The binaries are signed / notarized by Apple.

*PLEASE NOTE:* This is an early alpha! SO BACKUP YOUR STUFF OR JUST WORK WITH COPIES! There are issues! I'm posting this here to collect hurtful user feedback. There's a bug report button in the app, and it will notify you about available updates.

Thanks, I kindly request any form of feedback!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529608

Points: 4

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New comment by sliqqq in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

sliqqq — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:55:22 +0000

damn, i didnt know that! that's crazy

New comment by sliqqq in "Show HN: PhpEZ – A tiny PHP framework for shared LAMP hosting"

sliqqq — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:59:33 +0000

haha, take my upvote just for the sex.php alone ;)

New comment by sliqqq in "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down"

sliqqq — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:28:14 +0000

Everybody who's not totally limited in their mindsets. Twitter/X is uncensored. I think open minds who are hungry for the raw, real truth prefer such platform, rather than one that's regulated by one political party of one particular country.

New comment by sliqqq in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

sliqqq — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:25:43 +0000

Why? X is one of the rare uncensored publishing / communication networks we have. Do you prefer living in a highly regulated, censored pre-gated world where information is hidden if somebody "feels offended" by it or state / ngo actors dont want something to go public?

The brainwashing against free, open, uncensored and community-corrected platforms is crazy.

New comment by sliqqq in "Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?"

sliqqq — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:27:49 +0000

Keep in mind that the rest of the world does not even come close to US salaries. Buying a mac in most countries in the world means giving away multiple monthly salaries. Even in Germany, one of the richest countries in the world, a simple 16" Mac goes way way beyong the average salary.

Still going strong on a 2019 Intel MacBook, just for economic reasons.

New comment by sliqqq in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

sliqqq — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:15:00 +0000

WARNING! The link they posted on this Gitlab issue is a scam redirect loop, leading to something that uBlock rates as malicious. Also the /contact URL is not reachable, the entire .li of annas archive seems to be a scam. I'm writing this 2 days after this hackernews post went viral, it might be that somebody changed the links in between.