Hacker News: smodo

New comment by smodo in "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"

smodo — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:15:24 +0000

The kill switch is M365 account management. You take that offline, many SME’s and local governments just stop working. At least for a while.

New comment by smodo in "I built a faster Notion in Rust"

smodo — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:17:05 +0000

Still baffles me that Outlook won’t let me tie together emails, calendar items and documents. It makes so much sense to combine these things. All my meetings are about documents and their related correspondence but you never have a coherent information space for them.

New comment by smodo in "Good riddance to Auth0 and social logins"

smodo — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:45:54 +0000

Yes. For some people product owners don’t want to hear this. If having access to email means you can access the account then don’t prance around that with complicated recovery steps.

New comment by smodo in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

smodo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:35:06 +0000

Well maybe you lose your ability to focus or your sanity or your privacy but yeah.

New comment by smodo in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"

smodo — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:27:26 +0000

It’s a notetaking app.

New comment by smodo in "Albania puts AI-created 'minister' in charge of public procurement"

smodo — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:25:30 +0000

Well if we just store the inputs and outputs of the LLM on the blockchain we’ve just created a secure end to end AI-managed tender process. In fact we can automatically pay out the contractor in AlbaCoins now.

Click here to prebuy AlbaCoins and be ahead of the curve in money laun—- I mean AI governance.

New comment by smodo in "The F-35 is losing the trade war"

smodo — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:40:09 +0000

Us Europeans are just baffled by the fact that this ‘administration’ wants this. The EU is a big economy that’s relatively easy to deal with. Why would you alienate us?

But yeah so far Trump has been relatively true to his word, as far as it goes. Not really practically but going further down the road of a dare I say fascist outlook. I think Europeans still can’t believe it’s happening, much less intentionally so.

New comment by smodo in "Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs"

smodo — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:33:09 +0000

My colleagues at the head of a company. I’m one of four bosses. One of us is pushing for AI every single meeting. The other is ignoring her. The last one is starting to ‘see her point.’ I’m considering quitting if this goes to far but unwilling to make that threat yet, as it’s a bridge I can only cross once.

Anyway. To me it just speaks to the disdain for semi-intellectual work. People seem to think producing text has some value of its own. They think they can shortcircuit the basic assumption that behind every text is an intention that can be relied upon. They think that if they substitute this intention with a prompt, they can create the same value. I expect there to be some kind of bureaucratic collapse because of this, with parties unable to figure out responsibility around these zombie-texts. After that begins cleaning up, legislating and capturing in policy what the status of a given text is etc. Altman &co will have cashed out by then.

New comment by smodo in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

smodo — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:57:08 +0000

The recent blog post discusses moving into the email space and suggests some interesting uses of LLM’s for handling mail (sorting and labeling rather than writing). I’ve been quite pleasantly surprised with the Kagi products so far and would probably consider their e-mailservice if it’s as good. However the hassle of switching email providers is of course around 100x the hassle of switching search…

New comment by smodo in "Claude Opus 4 turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline"

smodo — Sun, 25 May 2025 05:55:43 +0000

I’m still hurting from when I didn’t listen to Yamaha’s warnings about the dangers of piano music.

New comment by smodo in "Stargate and the AI Industrial Revolution"

smodo — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:16:34 +0000

Prose like an adventure novel, content like a space opera. Lots of overconfident crystal ball gazing. Yep, must be a “future of AI” piece.

New comment by smodo in "Obsidian Bases"

smodo — Thu, 22 May 2025 07:00:54 +0000

Looks good. I liked Notion but hated that I can’t migrate my data in the future.

Are there any good ways to attach files to notes? I often want to tie a memo or email to a note but have not found a convenient way.

New comment by smodo in "Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane"

smodo — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:36:37 +0000

Yeah and now people who can’t even write and never put in the effort to learn it are flooding the zone (my inbox) with useless 10 page memo’s.

New comment by smodo in "Makepad 1.0: Rust UI Framework"

smodo — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:56:02 +0000

Thanks. Your team has been busy! :)

New comment by smodo in "Makepad 1.0: Rust UI Framework"

smodo — Wed, 14 May 2025 06:32:53 +0000

Putting aside the GPT-vibe I get from this comment.

> Integrated Development System:* Makepad offers a unified environment encompassing a GUI framework, a development system, and an IDE, streamlining the development workflow.

What? There’s an IDE?

New comment by smodo in "Makepad 1.0: Rust UI Framework"

smodo — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:57:05 +0000

Gaaf. I’ve written a piece of software using egui and while it let me iterate fast it has its limitations. There’s also gpui but that’s very Mac centric for now… I’ll give this a go in the near future. I’m a little curious about the DSL though. What is the advantage of a/this DSL over the builder pattern used by gpui? Does the fact that you can insert new code during runtime mean that there is in fact an interpreter between my code and the ui? How do you manage performance/efficiency in that case?

New comment by smodo in "Linux in Excel"

smodo — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:07:33 +0000

Excel is not even Excel anymore. It’s different on Windows, Mac, web, mobile… And there’s different bugs across all them! My favorite ones have to do with regional defaults.

New comment by smodo in "Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges"

smodo — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:59:31 +0000

3) Completely disconnect my printer from the web and live with this small discomfort. HP burned me too many times.

New comment by smodo in "The Reason Zelenskyy Doesn't Wear a Suit"

smodo — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:21:31 +0000

The reason people fret over this war is not because they care for the poor people of Ukraine. They (we, Europeans) care because we have the Huns at the gate. Ukraine happens to be the gate.

New comment by smodo in "Effective Rust (2024)"

smodo — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:14:22 +0000

The book isn’t free, its contents are published online by the author. Yes, nitpicking. But (1) I like a well formatted epub and (2) the author/publisher still hold copyright.